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.
I have been using mealie and it has been very good.
Same. Mealie is great. I set it up on Oracle always free instance along with nginx proxy manager. Pointed a subdomain at the instance’s IP address and was good to go. Gave my wife the link and she’s happy as a clam not having to re-find all the recipes we use regularly.
I didn’t know that I needed this in my life.
Second the Mealie suggestion, very solid.
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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
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Admittedly, never tried Mealie but the PWA works excellently, the shopping list/planning are nice and I’ve enjoyed it so far.
Nextcloud has a recipe add-on “cookbook” which is pretty good, works for me.
Same. It is pretty basic but has decent parsing of popular recipe websites. And it is nice to not have to maintain another system.
If you already have nextcloud, it isn’t a bad simplistic recipe manager. I think it needs fom improvement though.
Nice that it natively supports multiple users. Many dont.
I use tandoor myself, but mealie is also a solid choice
Tandoor is looking like the best one so far.
Yeap +1. The only gripe I have about Tandoor is the learning curve for scraping, organizing, and subtle scripting on the backend. Other than that, tandoor and mealie are quite comparable and great. Wife loves both of them.
Things to note are tags, cleaning up scraped recipes, learning how to organize. Follow the docs online and ask away here for any tips and tricks
Yeap +1. The only gripe I have about Tandoor is the learning curve for scraping, organizing, and subtle scripting on the backend. Other than that, tandoor and mealie are quite comparable and great. Wife loves both of them.
Things to note are tags, cleaning up scraped recipes, learning how to organize. Follow the docs online and ask away here for any tips and tricks
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’d like to check grocy because it looks really promising even if a bit overkill if you want only a cookbook.
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
I’m currently using tandoor
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.
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.
Nextcloud Cookbook does an utterly amazing job of importing URLs. There’s a bit to be desired on the interface side, but it’s import is damn good.
