What To Cook?
What To Cook? is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Recipe Management category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Java. It ships a Docker image. It has 71 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Aug 15, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Recipe Management
- Java
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Maintained
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 71
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Commits, last 12 months
- 7
- Last commit
- Aug 15, 2026
- Latest release
- 0.4.2Nov 20, 2025
- Created
- Sep 12, 2023
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
MaintainedMaintained: last commit Aug 15, 2026.
| Last commit | Aug 15, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 7 |
| Latest release | 0.4.2 (Nov 20, 2025) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 1 |
| Releases, all time | 6 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Open pull requests | 0 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Sep 12, 2023 |
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About What To Cook?
Get a recipe to cook today, based on the ingredients you have at home.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/kassner/whattocook.
Topics
- hacktoberfest
- recipes
- self-hosted
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Is What To Cook? free and open source?
Yes. What To Cook? is open-source software released under the AGPL-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 What To Cook? with Docker?
Yes. What To Cook? 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 What To Cook??
Popular self-hosted alternatives to What To Cook? include Mealie, Tandoor Recipes and CookCLI.
Is What To Cook? actively maintained?
The most recent commit to What To Cook? was on Aug 15, 2026 with 7 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is 0.4.2, published Nov 20, 2025. It had 0 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Maintained" as of Oct 26, 2026.