Norish is a self-hosted recipe application designed for households, families, and friends who want a shared place to manage recipes, plan meals, coordinate groceries, and cook together.
The project focuses on an intuitive, mobile-first experience and supports both web and mobile clients for collaborative day-to-day cooking workflows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Imports recipes from URLs, with AI fallback available when configured.
- Supports recipe import from images and short-form video sources such as YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, and TikTok when AI features are enabled.
- Generates nutritional information, allergy warnings, and metric to US unit conversions with optional AI providers.
- Includes recurring groceries via NLP or manual setup.
- Offers CalDAV synchronization for calendar integration.
- Provides flexible authentication with OIDC, GitHub, Google, and first-time password bootstrap.
- Includes an admin settings interface for runtime configuration and permission policies.
- Supports internationalization with multiple languages including English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Polish, and Danish.
Website: github.com/norish-recipes/norish
Support:
Developer: norish-recipes
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Norish is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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