Recipe & Meal Management
Recipe & Meal Management tools -- a subcategory of Health & Lifestyle
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19 Tools
Mealie
12KMealie handles material design inspired recipe manager as a self-hosted solution.
grocy
8.9KSelf-hosted recipe & meal management tool that provides ERP beyond your fridge. Groceries & household management solution for your home.
Tandoor Recipes
8.1KTandoor Recipes handles manage recipes, plan meals, build shopping lists, and much much more as a self-hosted solution.
KitchenOwl
3.2KFor recipe & meal management, KitchenOwl is a self-hosted solution that provides cross-platform shopping list.
CookCLI
1.2KCookCLI lets you run command-line tool for automating meal planning and shopping entirely on your own server.
Bar Assistant
986Bar Assistant is a PHP-based application that manages your home bar while adding your ingredients.
RecipeSage
848For recipe & meal management, RecipeSage is a self-hosted solution that provides recipe keeper, meal plan organizer, and shopping list manager.
Norish
822Norish gives you real-time recipe app for families and friends on your own infrastructure.
Kitshn
633For recipe & meal management, Kitshn is a self-hosted solution that provides unofficial Android client for Tandoor Recipes.
Specifically Clementines
285Self-hosted recipe & meal management tool that provides grocery shopping app (previously Groceries).
Social-to-Mealie
185Social-to-Mealie is a TypeScript-based application that provides import recipes found on social media into Mealie.
Mealient
167Mealient lets you run android client for Mealie entirely on your own server.
Vanilla Cookbook
145Vanilla Cookbook gives you recipe manager designed on your own infrastructure.
Tamari
117Tamari is a self-hosted recipe & meal management tool that provides recipe manager web app.
Untare
108Untare lets you run flutter mobile app for Tandoor recipes entirely on your own server.
InstagramToMealie
105InstagramToMealie is a Python-based application that provides simple converter for importing Instagram URLs into Mealie.
Liquor Locker
66Liquor Locker lets you run bar management with AI-powered recommendations entirely on your own server.
MealieSwift
Self-hosted recipe & meal management tool that provides mealie companion app written in SwiftUI.
Share to Mealie
Share to Mealie handles share recipes to your Mealie instance directly from your phone as a self-hosted solution.
Why Self-Host Your Recipe and Meal Management?
Recipe websites are notorious for intrusive ads, cookie walls, and life stories before the actual recipe. Commercial meal planning apps like Mealime or Paprika lock your recipe collection into proprietary formats and charge subscription fees for basic features like meal planning and shopping lists. Self-hosting your recipe management gives you a clean, ad-free cooking interface with your recipes stored in formats you control.
Mealie is the most popular self-hosted recipe manager, featuring automatic recipe import from URLs (scraping the actual recipe from blog clutter), meal planning, shopping list generation, and a mobile-friendly interface. Tandoor Recipes provides a comprehensive kitchen management system with meal plans, shopping lists, nutritional information, and multi-user support with granular permissions. KitchenOwl combines recipe management with a household grocery list and expense tracking. Grocy goes beyond recipes into full household inventory management — tracking what is in your fridge, pantry, and freezer with expiration dates and automatic shopping list generation.
CookCLI takes a developer-friendly approach with recipes defined in a Markdown-like cooklang format that separates ingredients, cookware, and steps. RecipeSage provides recipe management with automatic import and social features for sharing with friends. Bar Assistant specializes in cocktail recipe management with ingredient tracking and shopping lists. For Mealie users specifically, the ecosystem includes companion apps: Mealient and MealieSwift provide native mobile clients, Share-to-Mealie enables one-tap recipe saving from mobile browsers, and Social-to-Mealie imports recipes shared on social media platforms.