We track 6 open-source Mealime alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 4 ship a Docker image. Tandoor Recipes leads on health at 96/100 with 118 commits in the last 90 days; across all 6 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, BSD-3-Clause, Commons-Clause and 2 other licences.
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Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built-in models or external storage providers hosting PDFs, Images or other files.
★ 8.6k · ⟳ 3 days ago · 2.6.15 · MIT
Recipe manager web app with a built-in collection of recipes. Organize by favorites and categories, create shopping lists, and plan meals.
★ 137 · ⟳ today · v1.7.1 · GPL-3.0
Material design inspired recipe manager with category and tag management, shopping-lists, meal-planner, and site customizations. Mealie is focused on simple user interactions to keep the whole family using the app.
★ 13k · ⟳ today · v3.26.0 · MIT
A recipe keeper, meal plan organizer, and shopping list manager that can import recipes directly from any URL.
★ 960 · ⟳ today · v4.0.11 · AGPL-3.0
Clean, simple and powerful recipe manager your whole family will enjoy.
★ 412 · ⟳ yesterday · v1.2.2 · GPL-3.0
Manage your food recipes with simplicity.
★ 68 · ⟳ 28 days ago · v.4.1.1-Hot-fix · BSD-3-Clause
Tandoor Recipes scores highest at 96/100, with 118 commits in the last 90 days, 8.6k GitHub stars and its latest release (2.6.15) published 7 days ago. RecipeSage has the most raw commit activity at 891 commits in 90 days.
2 of 6 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Mealie (MIT), Fork Recipes (BSD-3-Clause). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.
4 of 6 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Tandoor Recipes, Tamari, Recipya, Fork Recipes. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.