Tandoor Recipes

Open-source alternative to Paprika and Mealime. A self-hosted recipe manager with meal planning, shopping lists, imports, and sharing.

A polished home-server choice for turning scattered recipes into an actual meal system.

At a glance

ReplacesPaprika, Mealime
Open-source licenseAGPL-3.0
PrivacyFamily recipes and meal habits remain on your own server.
Lightweight signalCombines recipes and weekly planning without content feeds or upsells.
Community healthActive self-hosting community
PlatformsWeb, Self-hosted
Privacy advantage

Family recipes and meal habits remain on your own server.

Less bloat

Combines recipes and weekly planning without content feeds or upsells.

Trust signal

Active self-hosting community. Verify current releases and open issues in the source repository before critical deployment.

Should you switch to Tandoor Recipes?

A polished home-server choice for turning scattered recipes into an actual meal system. A successful migration starts with a small real project, not a feature checklist. Test the files, integrations, shortcuts, and collaboration steps you use every week before removing the existing tool.

Open source gives you inspectable code and a path away from vendor lock-in, but it does not eliminate tradeoffs. Support may be community-led, some commercial file formats may be imperfect, and self-hosted options require security updates and backups. Use the official website and source repository above to confirm current compatibility.

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