AI assistants and search

ChefGPT alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

TandoorRecipes/recipes8,515licence unclearWeb app for managing recipes, planning meals, and building shopping lists.Open on GitHub mealie-recipes/mealie12,934AGPL-3.0Self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with import and REST API.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

App Store distribution and native iOS integrations (Live Activities, lockscreen widgets)
Built-in community Discovery feed of user-submitted recipes
Polished mobile UX and ongoing app-store oriented QA
Apple Health integration and platform-level tracking

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches ChefGPT, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.