Best self-hosted Recipe Management apps

Software and tools for managing recipes.

12 open source Recipe Management tools you host on your own server — with full control of your data and no per-user cost.

Mealie

★ 12,533

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 family using the app.

Recipe Management MIT

Tandoor Recipes

★ 8,417

Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built-in models or external storage providers hosting PDFs, Images or other files.

Recipe Management MIT

CookCLI

★ 1,314

Command-line tool for automating meal planning and shopping with Cooklang recipes, scriptable for UNIX workflows, includes web server.

Recipe Management MIT

Bar Assistant

★ 1,042

Manage your home bar while adding your ingredients, searching for cocktails and creating custom cocktail recipes.

Recipe Management MIT

RecipeSage

★ 902

A recipe keeper, meal plan organizer, and shopping list manager that can import recipes directly from any URL.

Recipe ManagementInventory Management AGPL-3.0

Recipya

★ 402

Clean, simple and powerful recipe manager your whole family will enjoy.

Recipe Management GPL-3.0

Specifically Clementines

★ 290

Grocery shopping app (previously Groceries), providing reliable sync with multiple users/devices (web/Android/iOS), recipes and integration with Tandoor.

Recipe ManagementInventory Management MIT

Vanilla Cookbook

★ 150

Recipe manager designed with complexity under the hood, keeping the user experience as uncluttered, simply vanilla as possible.

Recipe Management GPL-3.0

Tamari

★ 131

Recipe manager web app with a built-in collection of recipes. Organize by favorites and categories, create shopping lists, and plan meals.

Recipe Management GPL-3.0

Fork Recipes

★ 66

Manage your food recipes with simplicity.

Recipe Management BSD-3-Clause

What To Cook?

★ 63

Get a recipe to cook today, based on the ingredients you have at home.

Recipe Management AGPL-3.0

ManageMeals

★ 60

Manage recipes, import recipes by URL and organize them without any ads or unnecessary text.

Recipe Management GPL-3.0

Frequently asked questions

What are the best self-hosted Recipe Management tools?

Among the 12 options, the most popular include Mealie, Tandoor Recipes, CookCLI. Compare license, platform and popularity in the list below.

Is there a free open source alternative for Recipe Management?

Yes — all 12 tools on this page are open source and you run them on your own server, with no monthly fee.

Where can I host a Recipe Management app?

On a home server (homelab) or a cheap VPS from ~€4/mo. See the suggestions on this page.