Tandoor Recipes is a self-hosted recipe manager for building and organizing a digital cookbook. It lets you import recipes from websites and other recipe managers, plan meals, generate shopping lists, and share recipes with family and friends inside a private installation.
This is free and source-available software.
Key Features
- Includes AI-assisted tools to recognize images, sort recipe steps, and find nutrition facts.
- Offers powerful and customizable full-text search, along with tagging and batch organization tools.
- Supports fractions or decimals and helps you quickly merge or rename ingredients, tags, and units.
- Provides straightforward deployment with Docker plus examples for Kubernetes, Unraid, and Synology.
- Can sync files with Dropbox and Nextcloud.
- Optimized for mobile devices and localized in many languages.
Website: github.com/TandoorRecipes/recipes
Support:
Developer: TandoorRecipes
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3 with Commons Clause

Tandoor Recipes is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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