Bar Assistant
Recipe ManagersManage your home bar while adding your ingredients, searching
Best Free Recipe Managers for self-hosting
The 8 best Free recipe managers you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Nextcloud Cookbook
Recipe ManagersRecipe management app inside Nextcloud
Replaces Paprika, Cookmate
groceri.es
Recipe ManagersRecipe manager and meal planning tool
Replaces Paprika, Mealie
Vanilla Cookbook
Recipe ManagersRecipe manager designed with complexity under the hood, keeping
Tamari
Recipe ManagersFully-featured self-hosted recipe manager
Replaces Paprika, Mealie
What To Cook?
Recipe ManagersGet a recipe to cook today, based on the ingredients you have at home
Fork Recipes
Recipe ManagersManage your food recipes with simplicity
ManageMeals
Recipe ManagersManage recipes, import recipes by URL and organize them without any
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar Assistant | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | MIT | 1,104 |
| Nextcloud Cookbook | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 644 |
| groceri.es | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | MIT | 392 |
| Vanilla Cookbook | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | GPL-3.0 | 157 |
| Tamari | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | MIT | 144 |
| What To Cook? | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 71 |
| Fork Recipes | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | BSD-3-Clause | 69 |
| ManageMeals | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | GPL-3.0 | 63 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Bar Assistant (1,104 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Nextcloud Cookbook (from 256 MB RAM, against 512 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 3 of 8 use MIT; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Free within the recipe managers category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.