Wolt vs Glovo in Poland: Wolt Added 44% More Venues Across Fewer Cities

Glovo recorded venue openings across 128 Polish cities. Wolt recorded them across just 27. Yet Wolt added more venues.

Between December 2025 and April 2026, Getplace recorded 1,499 openings on Wolt and 1,044 on Glovo. That is 44% more for Wolt, across far fewer cities.

If you work on a delivery platform’s expansion or merchant acquisition, this is the comparison worth paying attention to. A competitor’s presence across many cities tells you about its reach. It does not tell you how quickly its offer is changing.

Wolt’s smaller geographic spread did not mean fewer additions

The contrast is straightforward: more openings on Wolt, spread across fewer cities; fewer on Glovo, spread much more widely.

That puts two different opportunities in view. A platform can reach customers in more places. It can also add more choice in places where it already operates. For a country team deciding where to put its next acquisition effort, those are different decisions.

The Poland figures suggest a useful question about Wolt: were its additions strengthening the offer in its existing cities? To answer that, we would need to look at the actual venues and where they deliver. The aggregate counts show a narrower geographic spread, not how the additions were distributed within those cities.

Glovo’s 128-city figure tells a different part of the story: its openings reached a much wider set of local markets. It does not mean Glovo entered 128 new cities. Both city counts refer to places where openings were recorded during the study.

An “opening” here is a restaurant or shop added to a platform, including one returning after leaving. We are tracking changes in the platform’s offer, not newly established businesses.

Wolt led for four months. Then Glovo moved ahead.

Wolt recorded more openings in December, January, February and March. Its highest count came in March, with 379 additions against Glovo’s 243.

April reversed the order: 190 openings for Glovo and 163 for Wolt.

Source: Getplace. Openings include restaurants and shops added to each platform, including returning venues.

There is a detail here that is easy to miss. Glovo took the lead without increasing its own opening count. Both platforms added fewer venues in April than in March. Wolt’s count fell further.

So the useful question is not “Why did Glovo suddenly accelerate?” It is “What changed in Wolt’s additions, and where?”

The chart does not answer that second question. It tells a competitor-tracking team where to start looking. One month is a reason to investigate, not enough to call a lasting change.

Which openings should a competing platform care about?

Suppose you manage merchant acquisition in a city where both platforms operate. Knowing that Wolt recorded more openings across Poland gives you context. Knowing whether those openings include restaurants missing from your own app gives you something to act on.

The next step is to identify the additions in your market, then compare them with your own offer. Are they restaurants you have been trying to sign? Shops that fill a category gap? Venues returning after a period away?

This is where openings data connects with merchant coverage gaps by city and category. A list of additions can become a focused acquisition shortlist, rather than another country-level number in a presentation. Getplace’s lead matching service for delivery platforms helps identify merchants available on competitors but missing from your platform, matched to the right location.

Once you have matched the same outlet across apps, you can compare what it actually offers. Our guide to menu and price comparison across delivery platforms explains that next layer: equivalent items, prices and availability, rather than restaurant names alone.

Removals complete that picture. A platform adding venues while losing others faces a different situation from one keeping most of its existing partners. This study covers openings only, so it does not rank the platforms by net growth or market share. For a separate look at demand, our Deliveroo UK order-volume research examines estimated orders, a different measure from venue additions.

The practical takeaway from Poland is simple: a wider footprint does not automatically mean more additions, and a five-month lead does not mean a lead every month. To understand a competitor’s next move, follow which venues appear, which disappear and where those changes happen.

Want to see that picture for your market? Ask Getplace about tracking competitor venue openings and removals.

About the data

Getplace’s Poland research infographic covers restaurant and shop openings on Wolt and Glovo from December 2025 to April 2026. Openings are additions to a platform, including returning venues; they are not necessarily physical business openings.

The monthly counts and city totals come from the infographic. Wolt’s 455 additional openings equal 43.6% more than Glovo’s total, rounded to 44%. Removals, city-by-city breakdowns and order volumes are not included. These findings describe the study period, not current platform coverage.

Sources: Getplace, “New venue openings: Wolt vs Glovo”, Poland, December 2025 to April 2026; Denis Chernobaev’s accompanying LinkedIn post, 21 May 2026.