I like to cook, and for that I need a place where I can keep all my recipes. I’m currently using the app My Recipe Box. But it’s closed source and full of ads. While the pro version is pretty cheap, I wanted to see if there were any open source apps for this.
Selfhosted apps will be nice. I’m fine with web access and no native app as well. If not selfhosted, I can also manage with open source apps with automatic backup of some sort.
The only feature that I really need is recipe scraping. Thanks for all your suggestions.
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I have been using mealie and it has been very good.
Second the Mealie suggestion, very solid.
Thirded
I use tandoor myself, but mealie is also a solid choice
Tandoor is looking like the best one so far.
I use dokuwiki for my recipes. It’s not as easy as mealie or tandoor, I just didn’t want to have yet another app installed just for recipes, since i am already using dokuwiki to to dokument all my tidbits and knowledgebase and shit.
Kitchenowl has been my go-to recently for shopping lists and recipes. I don’t have any recipe collection though; I mainly add random stuff from the internet. It’s a fairly simple self hosted app, easy with docker.
If you’ve got a lot of recipes, a wiki would probably be a good idea.
Nextcloud has a plugin called “Cookbook” which works pretty well as a recipe manager: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/cookbook
Recipe scraping works well for well-established websites (who use standard: https://schema.org/Recipe). Small blogs don’t use that and the scraper/importer doesn’t work. It works on most sites I’ve tried though.
I don’t really like the idea of Nextcloud, as I feel like it’s a jack of all trades kinda software.
Recipe scrapers are interesting. Unfortunately, though, I can’t seem to get them to work with most sites I use. It might be because most recipes I follow are Bengali, and come from smaller blogs. My Recipe Box works great with them. I wish they made their scraper public.
I have been pretty happy with tandoor recipes. It and mealie are pretty similar. It doesn’t have a dedicated mobile app, but it is a progressive web app, and ihas worked well on my phone.
I chose tandoor because it did something that mealie didn’t at the time I installed. But I don’t recall what that was.
I also started with mealie and moved to tandoor for the ability to adjust the recipe when changing the portion size. Was that the feature you were thinking of?
+1
The recipe import feature is quite nice - it worked flawlessly for most of the websites i tried
Edit: Formatting
I’m currently using tandoor
I’d like to check grocy because it looks really promising even if a bit overkill if you want only a cookbook.
I’d also recommend Mealie. Another is Grocy but I didn’t end up liking it’s UX as much as Mealie.
If you’re okay with not having it be specific to recipes, you could use Bookstack or another wiki too
I’ve been using Tandoor Recipes for a week now, here’s how I use it and why I chose it:
- Scraping recipes, I usually find a recipe I want to try on Pinterest or any other site then paste the link and it fetches the recipe without the authors life story.
- Serving size adjustments, it basically allows me to scale up and down recipes as I like.
- The Meal Plan feature is nice for planning ahead and sharing it.
- The search function is awesome.
- I imported all of my recipes from Copy Me That without any issues.
- comments on the recipe, unit adjustments, tags, auto cookbook creation, and others.
My first option RecipeSage, tried running it in LXC container with docker but had two issues:
- It won’t run in an Unprivileged Container.
- During install it ate up all the 32gb I allocated and it wasn’t enough for it.
Nexrcloud’s cookbook offers this service. It’s what I use. The web interface is good but the android app is subpar. I realized I pretty much stopped keeping tab of recipes because of my struggles with the app. And while the web interface, I can’t use it while in the kitchen.
Note that YMMV depending on how you intend to use it. It’s great to pull recipes from online blogs but if you make plenty edits of your own, then it’s a bit of a hassle.
Nextcloud has a recipe add-on “cookbook” which is pretty good, works for me.
