What To Cook?
Get a recipe to cook today, based on the ingredients you have at home.
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Still maintained? Yes: 5 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 0.4.2 (Nov 2025).
Comparisons in Recipe Management: Mealime alternatives.
At a glance
What To Cook? quick facts
- Health score
- 51/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 72
- Last commit
- 3 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- 0.4.2, Nov 2025
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "You don't know what to cook today? This project will suggest you one recipe, adapting to the ingredients that you have available at home."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
What To Cook? scores 51/100, #9 of 11 in Recipe Management: 5 commits in the last 90 days earn 5.8 of 35 points, the latest release (0.4.2, 11 months ago) earns 17.4 of 25, 72 stars add 7.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 29.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 5.8 / 35
5 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 17.4 / 25
0.4.2 released 11 months ago
- Stars 7.5 / 20
72 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
- 5
- Last 90 days
- 7
- Last 12 months
- 3 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 11 tools in Recipe Management by health , between ManageMeals (#8) and Recipya (#10) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 0.4.2 · 11 months ago |
| Stars | 72 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | kassner/whattocook ↗ |
What To Cook? vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with What To Cook? (Recipe Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar Assistant | 92 | 1.1k | MIT | yesterday |
| Tamari | 89 | 145 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| Vanilla Cookbook | 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? (this tool) | 51 | 72 | AGPL-3.0 | 3 months ago |
What To Cook?: common questions
Is What To Cook? still maintained?
What To Cook? had 5 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 months ago; the latest tagged release, 0.4.2, is from 11 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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