A recipe manager that feels like a consumer product rather than a homelab experiment: Mealie pairs a FastAPI backend with a reactive Vue frontend for the most polished self-hosted meal planning around. The killer feature is the recipe scraper: paste a URL from hundreds of supported cooking sites and Mealie imports the ingredients, steps, times, and photos automatically. Structured HTML/JSON paste, a Markdown-capable manual editor, and imports from other recipe apps (like Tandoor) cover everything else. Meal planning uses a drag-and-drop calendar with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack slots, plus rule-based random recipe insertion - constrain the pool by tags or categories per meal type or weekday. Shopping lists link recipes so all ingredients land in one place, organized into supermarket sections, and update in real time for everyone in the household. The multi-tenancy model is genuinely thought through: isolated Groups can host multiple tenants, and Households within a group share recipes and organizers while keeping meal plans and shopping lists private. Cookbooks group recipes by your own criteria, a cooking mode stays readable on a phone propped against the backsplash, and 35+ language translations ship built-in. A fully documented REST API and scheduled webhooks (e.g., today's meal plan to Home Assistant) make it automatable, with SQLite or PostgreSQL storage and automatic backups.

The deep end of self-hosted recipe management: Tandoor Recipes is a Django/Vue application that replaces Paprika, AnyList, and ad-choked recipe sites with a database you control. Import is where most people start: paste any URL and Tandoor scrapes schema.org markup for ingredients, instructions, images, times, and nutrition; bulk-paste URLs for batch import; or migrate wholesale from Mealie, Paprika, Nextcloud Cookbook, Pepperplate, and other managers with built-in importers. The structured recipe editor tracks ingredients individually, which is what powers everything downstream: full-text search with trigram similarity, a "what can I make with what's in the fridge" ingredient search, automatic nutrition via OpenFoodFacts, and shopping lists that merge duplicate ingredients across recipes, convert units, scale by servings, and sort by your supermarket's actual aisle layout. The weekly meal planner is drag-and-drop, feeds shopping lists automatically, exports to your calendar, and shows a nutritional summary for the week. Multi-user support comes with a granular permission system - shared household cookbooks, private recipes, even secret ones - and shopping lists sync in real time so two people can shop simultaneously. A full REST API integrates with Home Assistant and Grocy. For households serious about cooking, Tandoor's depth is unmatched.

Your household's kitchen command center: shared grocery lists that sync in real-time across everyone's phones, a recipe book that imports from 500+ websites with one tap, a weekly meal planner that auto-generates shopping lists, and expense tracking that splits costs between roommates or family members. Native apps for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and web provide partial offline support so the list works even in store dead zones. The recipe-scrapers library with wild mode fallback handles imports from virtually any cooking site, extracting ingredients, steps, and images automatically — then converts recipe ingredients directly to shopping items with a single tap. Smart suggestions learn from your patterns over time, ordering items by your typical store route and recommending frequently purchased products. OpenID Connect authentication supports Google, Apple, Authelia, and custom providers. LLM-powered ingredient parsing uses configurable AI models for intelligent recipe text extraction. A Home Assistant integration enables voice-controlled list management via smart speakers. The REST API with a published Python client library allows third-party automation. Multi-language support covers 30+ languages through Weblate community translations. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Every family recipe, bookmarked food blog post, and meal-prep formula stays organized inside Vanilla Cookbook, a self-hosted culinary library that converts volumetric measurements into precise gram weights and scales servings on the fly. Paste a URL or click the browser bookmarklet to scrape recipes from hundreds of cooking websites. Plain-text ingredient strings split automatically into structured quantities, units, preparation notes, and optional or to-serve badges. Home bakers switch effortlessly between US cups, imperial ounces, and metric grams across thousands of ingredient density profiles. Inline oven temperatures, fractions, and numeric ranges adjust automatically as serving counts change. Nutritional text parses into a structured per-serving breakdown, while integrated shopping lists, cooking logs, and equipment lists keep weekly grocery planning synchronized across desktop browsers and Progressive Web App mobile devices. Connecting an optional OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Ollama, or LiteLLM endpoint unlocks AI fallback scraping for pages lacking Schema.org markup, automatic recipe translation, verbose direction summarization, photo-to-recipe extraction, and vector-based semantic search. Multi-user accounts, OAuth authentication, public recipe sharing links, and bulk import or export tools give households full control over their cookbook data. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Planning weekly dinners across a busy household becomes effortless with Norish, a real-time recipe manager, meal planner, and smart grocery list platform that captures dishes from any link, video, or cookbook photo. Families and roommates can paste a food blog URL, drop in a YouTube Short, Instagram Reel, or TikTok link, or snap up to ten photos of handwritten recipe cards to generate a clean, structured dish with automatic tags, cuisines, and allergen alerts. When you drag meals onto the shared household calendar or sync your schedule over CalDAV, every ingredient flows into a live grocery list that remembers which supermarket aisle or store each item belongs to and automatically excludes staples already sitting in your pantry inventory. Splitting up in the supermarket aisles works seamlessly because checked-off items disappear on your partner's phone screen the instant you tap them, even across fifteen supported interface languages. In the kitchen, step-by-step cooking mode keeps your screen awake, embeds countdown timers directly inside preparation steps, links fractional ingredient quantities to the exact step where they are used, and scales servings or swaps between metric and US measurements with a single tap. Automatic macro calculations powered by USDA FoodData Central and CIQUAL databases break down calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat per serving. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Grocy is a household management system, bringing ERP-grade inventory tracking to kitchens, pantries, and homes worldwide. The stock management system tracks products with expiration dates, best-before dates, and opened tracking, while barcode scanning via USB readers or device cameras with Open Food Facts product lookup enables rapid item entry. Minimum stock amounts trigger automatic shopping list entries so frequently used products never run out, and multiple shopping lists can be maintained and shared across household members. Recipe management links ingredients directly to stock inventory, showing at-a-glance fulfillment status and a Due Score that highlights recipes best suited for consuming items approaching expiration. The meal planner organizes daily meals across customizable time periods and adds all missing ingredients to shopping lists with one click. Chore tracking schedules recurring household tasks with assignment to specific members, due date tracking, and completion history logging. Battery management monitors charge cycles for household devices with configurable reminder intervals. Custom fields and userfields extend any entity with additional data, while feature flags disable unused modules to simplify the interface. The RESTful API with integrated Swagger UI at the /api endpoint exposes every operation the web frontend uses, enabling third-party integrations with home automation systems. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Your family's shopping list, calendar, chores, meal plan, and budget share one home in OpenFamily, a self-hosted organizer that replaces subscription family apps with software you control. At the store, everyone ticks items off the same shopping list, with automatic categories, prices, reusable templates, and a store mode that groups items by category, and every phone updates instantly. At home, recurring tasks with three priority levels go to a specific family member, and in Pocket money, approved chores earn points that convert to payouts and savings goals. The calendar offers a monthly view per member, handles recurring and all-day appointments with up to five reminders each, follows Google, Outlook, or iCloud calendars by address, imports .ics files, and publishes its own iCal feed. Recipes can be found by typing the ingredients you already have, then dropped into a weekly meal plan. At month's end, the budget shows recurring income and expenses, per-category limits, charts, and a Kakeibo view. A kiosk display turns a wall tablet into a read-only board of today's schedule, meals, tasks, and who's where, alongside sticky notes from the family. Member profiles store allergies, vaccines, and emergency contacts, and parent and child roles keep the budget read-only for kids. Mealie, Tandoor, Home Assistant, Grocy, Nextcloud, and Immich connect in one click, and an optional AI assistant handles plain-sentence requests. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

That yogurt hiding behind the ketchup expired three weeks ago, and the flour you bought "just in case" has been sitting in the pantry since last winter. EverShelf replaces mental guesswork with a structured inventory system that tracks every item across pantry, fridge, freezer, and custom locations with precise quantities, expiry dates, and consumption patterns. Scan barcodes with your phone camera to add products instantly, or let the Gemini AI identify items from a photo and estimate shelf life based on storage location. The dashboard surfaces expired items and upcoming expirations with color-coded urgency badges, while anomaly detection flags suspicious quantities and consumption predictions that deviate from your history. Opened products get reduced shelf-life calculations; vacuum-sealed items get extended dates automatically. The recipe engine generates context-aware meal suggestions from your current inventory, prioritizing ingredients approaching expiry so nothing goes to waste; each recipe includes step-by-step cooking mode with text-to-speech narration and timer integration. A smart shopping list auto-populates when stock hits zero and syncs bidirectionally with the Bring! app, with AI-estimated prices per item and consumption forecasts showing when you will need to restock. For Home Assistant users, a native HACS integration provides 22 sensors, expiry calendars, bidirectional todo-list sync, and voice assistant support for adding items hands-free. A dedicated Kiosk mode optimizes the interface for wall-mounted tablets with BLE scale integration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Turn your scattered collection of liquor bottles and bar tools into a master mixology station with an intelligent digital cellar. Bar Assistant tracks your personal liquor cabinet, inventory levels, and available mixers against a catalog of more than 500 cocktail recipes. The platform calculates exact alcohol by volume ratings, computes ingredient costs per serving, and dynamically highlights every cocktail you can craft with on-hand supplies. Built-in recipe scrapers extract formula details, measurements, and glassware requirements directly from web links, JSON payloads, or YAML files. Multi-bar workspaces allow home mixologists and commercial venues to separate private collections from communal drink menus while handling complex ingredient substitutions, custom infusions, and shopping lists. Integrated Meilisearch indexing powers instant typo-tolerant searches across spirit categories, flavor tags, and cocktail strengths. Visual cocktail cards display high-resolution drink photography, user ratings, glassware requirements, and step-by-step garnish instructions. Deploy Bar Assistant on RepoCloud with dedicated VPS compute, full root SSH credentials, and in-browser console access, backed by an open-source MIT license.