ONDC Buyer Apps: The Full List (2026) and What Each Is Best For

Many people type “ONDC app download” into the Play Store, find nothing clean, and get confused. That confusion is normal, and this page fixes it in plain words.

There is no one “ONDC app” for shopping the way there is one Amazon app. ONDC is the road; the buyer apps are the different cars that drive on it. Below is a current, honest list of those apps, what each one is genuinely good for, and how to shop on them safely. This page is dated on purpose — the list changes, and we update it.

What is an ONDC buyer app?

On a regular shopping app — think of a walled marketplace — you can only buy what that one company has listed. The buyer, the seller and the catalogue all sit inside the same four walls.

The ONDC Network breaks those walls into three separate pieces:

• Buyer app — where you, the shopper, search and pay.
• Seller App — where a shopkeeper lists their products. (Kaarobari is a Seller App in the ONDC Network.)
• The network in the middle — the common rails that let any buyer app talk to any Seller App.

Because these three are separate, a product listed once by a shop can appear inside Paytm, inside Magicpin, inside Mystore — all at the same time. You are no longer locked to one company’s app to reach one company’s sellers.

📊 One network, many front doors

The main ONDC buyer apps (2026)

Here is the current directory. We have kept it to the well-known, working apps and described each factually — what it is, and what it is honestly best for. We have not invented ratings, user numbers or features.

📊 ONDC buyer apps — what each is best for

One honest note on freshness. This is a fast-moving network, and apps come and go. PhonePe’s “Pincode”, an early and well-known ONDC shopping app, was wound down in December 2025 — so if an older list still shows it, that list is out of date. That is exactly why every serious directory of this kind needs a real date on it.

There are well over a hundred buyer apps connected to the network in total, plus banking, rural-service and specialist apps. Most shoppers only need the handful above. If you want the complete, current roster, ONDC keeps it public on its own network-participants page.

ONDC grocery and food buyer apps

If your goal is everyday shopping — atta, oil, agarbatti, packaged snacks, or a restaurant meal — these are the apps to look at first:

• Paytm — has a strong grocery and food presence and reaches many pincodes.
• Magicpin — built around food ordering, with cashback that often makes the final bill lower than app-only food platforms.
• Meesho — value grocery and general household items from hyperlocal sellers.
• Tata Neu — food ordering in the cities where its ONDC food service is live.

Grocery and food are where the network is busiest, so this is also where a kirana or a home food-maker who lists once has the best chance of being found by a nearby buyer.

📊 Which app for which shopping

ONDC fashion and general shopping apps

The network is not only grocery. Fashion, home, kitchen, and general merchandise are growing categories, and the same open logic applies — a clothing seller or a handicraft maker can be discovered across several of these apps at once.

• Mystore — a genuinely multi-category marketplace; good for browsing across many small sellers.
• Meesho — long associated with affordable fashion and household products.
• Snapdeal — value general merchandise.
• Paytm — general retail alongside its grocery and food sections.

This is useful to know as a shopper: if you cannot find an item on one buyer app, another app on the same network may show a seller the first app did not surface. You are not stuck with one app’s search results.

Mobility and food delivery on ONDC (in brief)

Beyond buying products, the ONDC Network has separate verticals for mobility (booking an auto, cab, bus or metro ticket) and food delivery.

• Namma Yatri is the best-known ONDC mobility app — autos and cabs, with a low- or zero-commission model that keeps fares competitive. It started in Bengaluru and has expanded to more cities.
• Other apps such as Rapido and redBus also let commuters book travel through the network in various cities.
• For food delivery, Magicpin and Tata Neu are the ones most shoppers encounter.

A quick point of clarity for sellers of physical goods: these mobility and food verticals are separate from the retail catalogue where a Seller App like Kaarobari lists products. If you sell agarbatti or papad, you appear in the retail buyer apps above — not in the ride-booking apps. Do not let the variety confuse you; you only ever deal with the part of the network that matches what you sell.

How buying on the ONDC Network is different

This is the heart of why ONDC exists. Two mechanisms make it different from a walled marketplace.

1. One catalogue, many front doors. A shop lists its products once, through a Seller App. Those products then become visible across many buyer apps on the network. The shop does not create a separate account on each app. This is genuinely different from the old model, where a seller had to sign up, list, and manage stock separately on every single platform.

📊 List once → appear across many buyer apps

2. Small network fees instead of one big cut. On the ONDC Network, the buyer app and the Seller App each charge a modest fee on an order, rather than one platform taking a large percentage. Compared with a walled marketplace — where a single company controls the app, the sellers, the delivery and the commission — the total the network takes tends to be much lower. Lower cost in the chain is one reason prices on ONDC buyer apps are often competitive.

We can speak to one half of that chain from real experience, because we operate a Seller App. Our own seller fee is 2% on delivered orders, plus 18% GST on that fee, with no monthly fee and no listing fee. That is the whole of what the seller side charges. (The buyer app charges its own small fee, and there are standard taxes; we break the full chain down in our seller settlement guide and our seller app fees comparison.)

We are describing the mechanism here, not a scoreboard. We do not publish order counts or claim which specific buyer apps carry the most of our sellers — those numbers move, and honest content should not lean on them.

How to shop on an ONDC buyer app

There is no special skill needed. If you can order on any app, you can shop on ONDC. Here is the flow:

1. Install or open a buyer app — for example Paytm, Magicpin or Mystore. Download only from the official Google Play Store or Apple App Store listing.
2. Search for a product or a shop — type “atta”, “kurta”, or a nearby store name. The app shows results pulled from sellers across the network.
3. Add to cart and check the details — price, seller name, and delivery estimate are shown before you pay.
4. Pay — usually UPI, card, or the app’s own wallet. Payment is handled inside the buyer app.
5. Track and receive — you follow the order and delivery in the same app.
6. If something goes wrong — you raise a complaint in the buyer app. On the network this is a defined grievance process, so a genuine issue has a real path to resolution.

📊 Shopping on a buyer app — 6 steps

For sellers: one listing, many buyer apps

Everything above is written for shoppers. But if you run a shop, the same open design is the whole opportunity: you do the work once, and the network carries you to many buyer apps.

Here is what that looks like in practice. You list your catalogue through a Seller App like Kaarobari. From that single listing, your products can surface across many buyer apps on the network — because they all read from the same rails. You manage stock and orders in one place; the buyer apps are the many windows your shop is seen through.

And the cost of that visibility is small and honest. Our seller fee is 2% on delivered orders, plus 18% GST on the fee — no monthly fee, no listing fee. On a ₹1,000 order, our fee is ₹20 (plus ₹3.60 GST on that fee). Nothing is charged until an order is actually delivered.

📊 A ₹1,000 delivered order — our seller fee

If you have wondered how to get started, two things surprise most first-time sellers: you can begin selling without a GST number in many cases, and the full step-by-step to sell on the ONDC Network is shorter than people expect. We also keep a plain checklist of the documents you need and an honest pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

Related guides

Sources

• ONDC — Network Participants (official, live list) — ondc.org/network-participants
• ONDC — official site — ondc.org
• Tata Neu on ONDC food & beverages — Outlook Business, 2024.
• PhonePe winds down Pincode — TechCrunch, December 2025.
• ONDC forays into mobility (Namma Yatri) — Inc42.
• Kaarobari settlement code, August 2026 — the 2% seller fee and 18% GST on it are what our software applies to a delivered order.

Written by Tejas Ahirrao, Founder of Kaarobari (Nexsol Infotech Pvt Ltd, CIN U62099MR2026PTC474666, Dhule, Maharashtra) — a Seller App in the ONDC Network. We publish what we can verify, with a date. If a figure or an app on this list looks out of date, tell us and we will re-check and correct it.