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11 self-hosted BigOven alternatives

BigOven is a recipe and meal-planning service that lets users discover and save recipes, create meal plans, generate grocery lists, and track leftovers. It organizes a personal recipe collection and provides search, video content and mobile apps for cooking and shopping.

Alternatives to BigOven

Self-hosted recipe manager with URL imports, meal planning, shopping lists, cookbooks, and an API-first backend with a Vue web interface.

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12.8k stars1.4k forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

KitchenOwl is a self-hosted grocery list and recipe manager with shared households, meal planning, real-time sync, and expense tracking across mobile, web, and desktop apps.

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3.5k stars215 forksAGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source Rust-based CLI to parse, scale, search, import and serve Cooklang recipes; generates shopping lists, reports, and a browsable web UI.

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1.3k stars97 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted platform for managing cocktail recipes, ingredients inventory, bars, menus, and shopping lists, with powerful filtering, import/export, and an API.

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1.1k stars47 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained

A self-hostable collaborative recipe manager with web import, meal planning, and shared shopping lists in a mobile-friendly PWA.

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926 stars98 forkslast commit Actively maintained

Recipya is a simple recipe manager for collecting, importing and organizing recipes into cookbooks, digitizing paper recipes, converting units, and calculating nutrition.

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407 stars26 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted recipe manager and PWA with web scraping, ingredient parsing, unit conversion, shopping lists, cooking logs, LLM-assisted features, and Docker deployment.

153 stars9 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

Personal recipe manager for storing, searching, importing and sharing recipes with meal planner, shopping lists, and a REST API. Docker-ready and mobile-friendly.

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135 stars7 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

A Dockerized Django frontend that manages image/video recipes, meal planning, shopping lists and backup snapshots, working with the ForkApi backend.

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67 stars4 forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

Open-source recipe manager with URL-based recipe import, AI-assisted parsing, fast fuzzy search, meal planning, shopping lists, printing and shareable recipe links.

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61 stars5 forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing BigOven actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 11 of 11 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0, MIT, GPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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