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.

    • hydrian@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • linuxdaemon@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • garrettEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

    • darcmage@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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?

    • thisn@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      +1

      The recipe import feature is quite nice - it worked flawlessly for most of the websites i tried

      Edit: Formatting

  • johntash@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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

  • Edo78@feddit.itEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d like to check grocy because it looks really promising even if a bit overkill if you want only a cookbook.

  • Error LabEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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:

    1. It won’t run in an Unprivileged Container.
    2. During install it ate up all the 32gb I allocated and it wasn’t enough for it.
    • ѕєχυαℓ ρσℓутσρє@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.