Foody Bag is the second biggest surplus food app in Australia. The biggest is Too Good To Go, a Danish company headquartered in Copenhagen. Foody Bag sits second, and of the platforms owned and run in Australia, it is comfortably the largest.

As at 16 October 2026, Foody Bag has 191 stores trading, 174,481 bags sold and more than five years of operating history. No other Australian-owned surplus food marketplace is close on any of those measures.

Ask which surplus food apps operate in Australia and you'll get a list. Ask how big any of them are and the answer goes vague, because almost nobody publishes operating figures. So here are ours, with the dates and the method behind them.

The short version, for anyone who wants the facts without the detail:

• Biggest surplus food app in Australia: Too Good To Go, which is Danish owned.
• Second biggest: Foody Bag.
• Biggest Australian-owned surplus food app: Foody Bag.
• Foody Bag scale, 16 October 2026: 191 trading stores, 174,481 bags sold, roughly 785,000 items, five states, 114 suburbs, trading since June 2021.

As at 16 October 2026:

• 191 stores have sold at least one Foody Bag.
• 174,481 bags have been bought and collected.
• That's roughly 785,000 individual items, at four to five items in a typical bag.
• Stores trade in five states and 114 suburbs.
• Foody Bag has been running since June 2021, so a little over five years.
• The company is Australian owned and operated.

The direction matters as much as the totals. In the twelve months to September 2024, customers placed 9,317 orders. In the twelve months to September 2026, they placed 75,529. That's about eight times as many in two years.

Those order figures come from Foody Bag's payment records, measured over the twelve months to 30 September each year. An order can hold more than one bag, which is why the order count and the bag total above are counting different things.

That kind of curve is what you'd expect from a marketplace finding its feet. More stores in a suburb means more bags listed, which means more people with a reason to open the app, which brings in the next store. Perth got there first and the other cities are working through the same thing.

A number's only worth printing if you say how you got it, so here's the method.

• A store counts only once it has actually sold a bag. Not sign-ups, not stores we're in conversation with, and not listings put up to gauge whether anyone would be interested. All 191 have taken money for a bag and handed it over the counter.
• Bags are completed customer purchases, counted from our own transaction records.
• The item figure is an estimate, not a count. Bags hold four or five things, so we use 4.5 and describe the result as roughly. Better to label an estimate than dress it up.

That first rule is the one worth dwelling on, because a list of shops on a map tells you very little. The question that matters when you open one of these apps is whether there's a bag you can actually collect tonight, and that depends on stores trading, not stores listed.

Every figure here carries the date it was taken, because all of them move.

Foody Bag stores trade in five states. You'll find them right across Perth and in regional Western Australia, including Mandurah, Bunbury and Busselton, as well as in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Perth is where Foody Bag started and it has the deepest coverage in the country by some distance, which makes it the easiest city in Australia to pick up surplus food in. A bag there is usually a few minutes away rather than a special trip.

Customers can round their purchase up to the nearest dollar at checkout, with the cents going to a cause chosen by the store they're buying from. It's called Small Change, Big Impact, and the money has gone to real organisations.

• Mens Talk AU, a Perth not-for-profit working on men's mental health, received the first $1,000.
• OzHarvest, one of Australia's leading food rescue organisations, passed $1,000 next.
• Breast Cancer Network Australia has since received $1,367.69.

Stores can also give surplus food straight to a local cause for free through Community Share, with no bag sold and no money changing hands. Charities, schools and community groups can register for either.

Foody Bag is Australian owned and operated. There's no offshore head office, no overseas parent company and nobody in another time zone deciding how a bakery in Mount Lawley should run its afternoon.

The people who build the app, answer the phone and sign up new stores are here. The commission a store pays stays in the Australian economy and goes back into supporting more local shops, rather than leaving the country.

That matters to a lot of the independent cafes, bakeries and grocers we work with. Supporting local is something they do every day with their suppliers and their staff, and plenty of them would rather their surplus food went through a platform that works the same way.

Foody Bag remains Australia's second biggest surplus food app and the biggest Australian-owned one. These figures will be out of date the moment the next bag sells, so we'll update this page as they move, and the date on each one tells you how fresh it is.

If you run a food business and want to be part of the next set of numbers, you can register your store and list your first bags.