Vanilla Cookbook
Recipe manager designed with complexity under the hood, keeping the user experience as uncluttered, simply vanilla as possible.
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Still maintained? Yes: 67 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.6.1 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Recipe Management: Mealime alternatives.
At a glance
Vanilla Cookbook quick facts
- Health score
- 89/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 158
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.6.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Roadmap: See our Project Kanban for what's being worked on, and what's coming up."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Vanilla Cookbook scores 89/100, #4 of 11 in Recipe Management: 67 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.6.1, 2 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 158 stars add 8.8 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 11.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
67 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.6.1 released 2 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 8.8 / 20
158 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
- 67
- Last 90 days
- 393
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #4 of 11 tools in Recipe Management by health , between Tamari (#3) and Mealie (#5) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker, Nodejs |
| Latest release | v1.6.1 · 2 days ago |
| Stars | 158 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | jt196/vanilla-cookbook ↗ |
Vanilla Cookbook vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Vanilla Cookbook (Recipe Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamari | 89 | 145 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| Vanilla Cookbook (this tool) | 89 | 158 | GPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Mealie | 87 | 14k | MIT | today |
| RecipeSage | 82 | 985 | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| What To Cook? | 51 | 72 | AGPL-3.0 | 3 months ago |
| Recipya | 43 | 412 | GPL-3.0 | today |
Vanilla Cookbook: common questions
Is Vanilla Cookbook still maintained?
Vanilla Cookbook had 67 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.6.1, is from 2 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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