No Delivery: Order, Don't Pay

About

It looks like a food-delivery app. It is not one. It is also not a cooking game and not a budgeting app. No Delivery is an app where the order never arrives. That failure is the entire product. ■ HOW THIS IS DIFFERENT Delivery apps exist to complete a purchase. This app exists to abort one. No restaurant is ever contacted, no address is ever requested, and nothing is ever delivered. Not a cooking or restaurant game. There is no cooking, no management, no upgrades, no score. There is no business to grow. Not an idle game. Nothing accrues while you wait. The only number that grows is money you actually did not spend, and it grows only when you decide not to spend it. Not a budgeting app. Budgeting apps tell you about money after it is gone. This one steps in at the moment you were about to spend it, and never touches a bank account. ■ HOW YOU USE IT Open it late at night, when you are tired and you were about to open a real delivery app. Pick a restaurant. Add items. Choose options. Place the order. Watch the delivery move across the map. And when it "arrives" — nothing arrives. Instead, the app records exactly how much money you just kept, and how many calories you did not eat. Resisting is hard. Going through with it is easy. ■ WHAT IS INSIDE Virtual ordering Ten restaurants, forty-two menu items, with options, prices and a working cart. All of it is invented. Watch the delivery Order received → cooking → on the way → saved. The artwork changes at each stage. The map is an illustration, not real geography. Savings record Every completed order adds to your total money and calories saved. Seven-day and thirty-day charts show the habit forming. Sixteen collectible cards Each card is hidden behind a silhouette that peels back one segment per virtual order. The face is revealed only at the very end. Daily and monthly leaderboards See who resisted best today. Everyone's Reviews Read what other people talked themselves out of, and post your own. Moderated with reporting and blocking. Emoji photo reviews Decorate the food you "ate" with emoji stickers. No camera required. ■ PRIVACY We do not ask for your legal name, phone number, or address. It looks like a delivery app, but there is nothing to deliver, so there is no reason to collect any of it. An account is required, because your savings history and cards need to follow you across devices, and because the leaderboard and public reviews need one. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. Any nickname works as your display name. You can delete your account inside the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. The app does not request location permission. It does not use the camera or your photo library. ■ PURCHASES AND ADS Everything works without paying. You get free gems every day, plus more for writing reviews and for referrals. The savings record, leaderboard, cards, and reviews are never behind a paywall. You can buy gems, or buy Premium once to order without spending gems at all. Ads appear only when you tap "Watch an ad for gems" yourself. There are no banners and no interstitials. ■ ONE LAST THING Every restaurant, menu item, price, and rider in this app is invented. No real brands appear anywhere. There is no real food, no real payment, and no real delivery. The best meal is the one you did not order.