AnyMeal is a desktop recipe database application for maintaining a personal collection of cooking recipes. It uses a graphical interface built with Qt and stores recipe information in a local SQLite database.
The application is particularly useful for people with large existing collections in the MealMaster format. It can manage hundreds of thousands of recipes, providing search, editing and printing facilities without depending on a remote database server.
AnyMeal takes a conventional cookbook-management approach. Users can import existing recipe collections, organise their data and retrieve dishes using ingredient and category searches. The database is stored locally, allowing the collection to remain under the user’s control.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Stores recipes in a local SQLite database.
- Uses a graphical interface built with Qt.
- Manages collections containing more than 250,000 MealMaster recipes.
- Imports existing recipes in the MealMaster format.
- Exports recipes for exchange with compatible applications.
- Creates new recipes and edits existing entries.
- Displays recipe ingredients and preparation instructions.
- Searches recipes by title.
- Filters recipes using categories and ingredient information.
- Supports searching within large collections of stored recipes.
- Allows recipes to be selected and organised for subsequent operations.
- Provides recipe printing facilities.
- Maintains recipe collections without requiring a separate database server.
- Supports conventional cookbook management using locally stored records.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and Windows.
Website: wedesoft.github.io/anymeal
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Developer: Jan Wedekind
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
AnyMeal is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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Sounds great. Linux needs a good recipe manager as Kmeals (I think is the name) and Gourmet are obsolete. Two suggestions: nutrition analysis of recipes and meal (collection of recipes), and export to open docs like LibreOffice. Also, a flexible report creator for recipes would be good so we can format our recipes as desired.