Best Open Source Food & Cooking in 2026

Recipe managers, meal planners, cooking tools, and food-related applications.

The most popular pick this year is Tandoor Recipes with 8,186 GitHub stars, but all 1 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.

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Tandoor Recipes

Self-hosted recipe manager for managing your digital recipe collection. Import, plan meals, build shopping lists, and collaborate with family.

Alternative to:

Paprika Recipe Manager

How we rank these tools

Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.

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