Recipya

Recipya is a web-based recipe manager designed for families to collect, organize and share cooking recipes. It focuses on simplicity, cross-platform availability, and features to import, digitize and migrate existing recipe collections.

Key Features

• Save and organize recipes into cookbooks with a clean web interface
• Import recipes from websites and migrate from Mealie, Tandoor and Nextcloud Cookbook formats
• Digitize paper recipes (OCR-assisted) to convert physical recipes into searchable entries
• Automatic unit conversion between imperial and metric systems
• Automatic nutritional information calculation for recipes
• Print-friendly recipe output and UI options to prevent device sleep while viewing
• Theme support (follows system theme or choose from multiple custom themes)
• Cross-compiled builds for Windows, Linux and macOS and provided Docker packaging
• Built-in updater mechanism to detect and apply new releases

Use Cases

• Centralize family recipes into searchable cookbooks and share across household devices
• Migrate an existing recipe collection from other recipe managers into a modern, themed app
• Convert legacy paper recipes into digital, searchable entries with OCR and calculated nutrition

Limitations and Considerations

• The project is being rewritten in Rust; the Rust-based rewrite is not production-ready and may lack feature parity with the current Go implementation
• Some integrations or importers may require manual adjustments depending on source formatting

Recipya is a practical choice for users who want a focused recipe management app with import, OCR and nutrition features, packaged for desktop and container deployments. It emphasizes a simple, family-friendly UI and straightforward migration paths from other recipe managers.