Health, home and travel

Recipe One 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

mealie-recipes/mealie12,940AGPL-3.0Self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with REST API, Vue frontend, and automatic URL-based recipe import.Open on GitHub TomBursch/kitchenowl3,605AGPL-3.0Self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager with Flask backend and Flutter frontend, create recipes and shopping lists.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished, native iOS and Android apps with App Store ratings and existing users
Proprietary AI tuning and engineering optimizations behind their extraction pipeline
Cross-device sync polish and account/session mgmt at scale
Existing user base, reviews, and curated UX details

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