Vanilla Cookbook
Vanilla Cookbook is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Recipe Management category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in JavaScript. It ships a Docker image. It has 158 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 8, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Recipe Management
- JavaScript
- GPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 158
- Forks
- 13
- Open issues
- 1
- Commits, last 12 months
- 371
- Last commit
- Oct 8, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.6.0Oct 8, 2026
- Created
- Aug 2, 2023
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 8, 2026, 371 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 8, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 371 |
| Latest release | v1.6.0 (Oct 8, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 38 |
| Open issues | 1 |
| Open pull requests | 5 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Aug 2, 2023 |
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About Vanilla Cookbook
Recipe manager designed with complexity under the hood, keeping the user experience as uncluttered, simply vanilla as possible.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/jt196/vanilla-cookbook.
Topics
- cookbook
- cooking
- food
- recipes
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Is Vanilla Cookbook free and open source?
Yes. Vanilla Cookbook is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Vanilla Cookbook with Docker?
Yes. Vanilla Cookbook provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Vanilla Cookbook?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Vanilla Cookbook include Mealie, Tandoor Recipes and CookCLI.
Is Vanilla Cookbook actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Vanilla Cookbook was on Oct 8, 2026 with 371 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.6.0, published Oct 8, 2026. It had 1 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.