grocy
ERP beyond your fridge. Groceries & household management solution for your home.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 33 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v4.7.1 (Sep 2026).
Also an alternative to Snipe-IT Cloud.
At a glance
grocy quick facts
- Health score
- 96/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 9,630
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- v4.7.1, Sep 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to grocy
Full rankings: Snipe-IT Cloud alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
grocy scores 96/100, #3 of 9 in Resource Planning: 33 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v4.7.1, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 9,630 stars add 15.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 4.1 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
Health over time
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
33 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v4.7.1 released 2 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.9 / 20
9.6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 33
- Last 90 days
- 87
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #3 of 9 tools in Resource Planning by health , between Ever Gauzy (#2) and farmOS (#4) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | v4.7.1 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 9,630 |
| Open issues | 140 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | grocy/grocy ↗ |
grocy vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with grocy (Resource Planning), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ever Gauzy | 96 | 8.7k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| grocy (this tool) | 96 | 9.6k | MIT | 1 month ago |
| HomeBox (SysAdminsMedia) | 96 | 7.7k | AGPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| Part-DB | 93 | 1.8k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Inventree | 86 | 7.8k | MIT | today |
| Shelf | 84 | 3k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
grocy: common questions
What does grocy replace?
Repoly lists grocy as an open-source alternative to Snipe-IT Cloud. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where grocy stands against the others.
Is grocy still maintained?
grocy had 33 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, v4.7.1, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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