1y ago

Suggestions for selfhosted recipe manager?

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.

17 comments

I have been using mealie and it has been very good.

Second the Mealie suggestion, very solid.
- Thirded
  
  Fourthed

Nextcloud has a recipe add-on "cookbook" which is pretty good, works for me.
- If you already have nextcloud, it isn't a bad simplistic recipe manager. I think it needs fom improvement though.

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
- Admittedly, never tried Mealie but the PWA works excellently, the shopping list/planning are nice and I’ve enjoyed it so far.

I use tandoor myself, but mealie is also a solid choice

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've been using Tandoor
It's not perfect but works well

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.

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

17 comments