11 open-source apps
Best self-hosted Recipe Management apps
Recipe managers, meal planners and shopping lists. Collect and cook your favorite dishes from your own cookbook.
The most popular self-hosted apps for recipe management on GitHub are Mealie, Tandoor Recipes and CookCLI, ranked by stars below.
Ranked by GitHub stars
All 11 Recipe Management apps
Mealie
mealie-recipes/mealie
Material design inspired recipe manager with category and tag management, shopping-lists, meal-planner, and site customizations. Mealie is focused on simple user interactions to keep the whole…
Recipe ManagementPythonTandoor Recipes
TandoorRecipes/recipes
Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built-in models or external storage providers hosting PDFs, Images or other files.
Recipe ManagementHTMLDockerCookCLI
cooklang/cookcli
Command-line tool for automating meal planning and shopping with Cooklang recipes, scriptable for UNIX workflows, includes web server.
Recipe ManagementRustBar Assistant
karlomikus/bar-assistant
Manage your home bar while adding your ingredients, searching for cocktails and creating custom cocktail recipes.
Recipe ManagementPHPDockerRecipeSage
julianpoy/RecipeSage
A recipe keeper, meal plan organizer, and shopping list manager that can import recipes directly from any URL.
Recipe ManagementTypeScriptRecipya
reaper47/recipya
Clean, simple and powerful recipe manager your whole family will enjoy.
Recipe ManagementGoDockerVanilla Cookbook
jt196/vanilla-cookbook
Recipe manager designed with complexity under the hood, keeping the user experience as uncluttered, simply vanilla as possible.
Recipe ManagementJavaScriptDockerTamari
alexbates/Tamari
Recipe manager web app with a built-in collection of recipes. Organize by favorites and categories, create shopping lists, and plan meals.
Recipe ManagementPythonDockerWhat To Cook?
kassner/whattocook
Get a recipe to cook today, based on the ingredients you have at home.
Recipe ManagementJavaDockerFork Recipes
mikebgrep/fork.recipes
Manage your food recipes with simplicity.
Recipe ManagementHTMLDockerManageMeals
managemeals/manage-meals-web
Manage recipes, import recipes by URL and organize them without any ads or unnecessary text.
Recipe ManagementSvelteDocker
What is the best self-hosted app for recipe management?
By GitHub stars, Mealie is the most popular self-hosted app for recipe management with 13,451 stars, followed by Tandoor Recipes and CookCLI. The best fit depends on your needs, so compare Docker support, license and recent activity on each app page.
Are these Recipe Management apps free?
Yes. All 11 apps in this category are open source and free to run on your own server. A few also offer a paid hosted plan or enterprise add-ons, but self-hosting the open-source edition costs nothing beyond your hardware.
How do I install a self-hosted Recipe Management app?
8 of the 11 apps here ship a Docker image, which is the easiest route: rent a small VPS or use a home server, install Docker, and start the app with its Docker Compose file. Apps without an image list their native install steps in the README.
Which Recipe Management apps are most actively developed?
Measured by commits in the last twelve months, the most active projects are RecipeSage (2,660 commits), Mealie (1,364 commits) and Tandoor Recipes (1,021 commits). Active development usually means faster bug fixes and security patches.