A recipe manager that feels like a consumer product rather than a homelab experiment: Mealie pairs a FastAPI backend with a reactive Vue frontend for the most polished self-hosted meal planning around. The killer feature is the recipe scraper: paste a URL from hundreds of supported cooking sites and Mealie imports the ingredients, steps, times, and photos automatically. Structured HTML/JSON paste, a Markdown-capable manual editor, and imports from other recipe apps (like Tandoor) cover everything else. Meal planning uses a drag-and-drop calendar with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack slots, plus rule-based random recipe insertion - constrain the pool by tags or categories per meal type or weekday. Shopping lists link recipes so all ingredients land in one place, organized into supermarket sections, and update in real time for everyone in the household. The multi-tenancy model is genuinely thought through: isolated Groups can host multiple tenants, and Households within a group share recipes and organizers while keeping meal plans and shopping lists private. Cookbooks group recipes by your own criteria, a cooking mode stays readable on a phone propped against the backsplash, and 35+ language translations ship built-in. A fully documented REST API and scheduled webhooks (e.g., today's meal plan to Home Assistant) make it automatable, with SQLite or PostgreSQL storage and automatic backups.

The deep end of self-hosted recipe management: Tandoor Recipes is a Django/Vue application that replaces Paprika, AnyList, and ad-choked recipe sites with a database you control. Import is where most people start: paste any URL and Tandoor scrapes schema.org markup for ingredients, instructions, images, times, and nutrition; bulk-paste URLs for batch import; or migrate wholesale from Mealie, Paprika, Nextcloud Cookbook, Pepperplate, and other managers with built-in importers. The structured recipe editor tracks ingredients individually, which is what powers everything downstream: full-text search with trigram similarity, a "what can I make with what's in the fridge" ingredient search, automatic nutrition via OpenFoodFacts, and shopping lists that merge duplicate ingredients across recipes, convert units, scale by servings, and sort by your supermarket's actual aisle layout. The weekly meal planner is drag-and-drop, feeds shopping lists automatically, exports to your calendar, and shows a nutritional summary for the week. Multi-user support comes with a granular permission system - shared household cookbooks, private recipes, even secret ones - and shopping lists sync in real time so two people can shop simultaneously. A full REST API integrates with Home Assistant and Grocy. For households serious about cooking, Tandoor's depth is unmatched.

Planning weekly dinners across a busy household becomes effortless with Norish, a real-time recipe manager, meal planner, and smart grocery list platform that captures dishes from any link, video, or cookbook photo. Families and roommates can paste a food blog URL, drop in a YouTube Short, Instagram Reel, or TikTok link, or snap up to ten photos of handwritten recipe cards to generate a clean, structured dish with automatic tags, cuisines, and allergen alerts. When you drag meals onto the shared household calendar or sync your schedule over CalDAV, every ingredient flows into a live grocery list that remembers which supermarket aisle or store each item belongs to and automatically excludes staples already sitting in your pantry inventory. Splitting up in the supermarket aisles works seamlessly because checked-off items disappear on your partner's phone screen the instant you tap them, even across fifteen supported interface languages. In the kitchen, step-by-step cooking mode keeps your screen awake, embeds countdown timers directly inside preparation steps, links fractional ingredient quantities to the exact step where they are used, and scales servings or swaps between metric and US measurements with a single tap. Automatic macro calculations powered by USDA FoodData Central and CIQUAL databases break down calories, protein, carbohydrates, and fat per serving. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Your household's kitchen command center: shared grocery lists that sync in real-time across everyone's phones, a recipe book that imports from 500+ websites with one tap, a weekly meal planner that auto-generates shopping lists, and expense tracking that splits costs between roommates or family members. Native apps for Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and web provide partial offline support so the list works even in store dead zones. The recipe-scrapers library with wild mode fallback handles imports from virtually any cooking site, extracting ingredients, steps, and images automatically — then converts recipe ingredients directly to shopping items with a single tap. Smart suggestions learn from your patterns over time, ordering items by your typical store route and recommending frequently purchased products. OpenID Connect authentication supports Google, Apple, Authelia, and custom providers. LLM-powered ingredient parsing uses configurable AI models for intelligent recipe text extraction. A Home Assistant integration enables voice-controlled list management via smart speakers. The REST API with a published Python client library allows third-party automation. Multi-language support covers 30+ languages through Weblate community translations. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Grocy is a household management system, bringing ERP-grade inventory tracking to kitchens, pantries, and homes worldwide. The stock management system tracks products with expiration dates, best-before dates, and opened tracking, while barcode scanning via USB readers or device cameras with Open Food Facts product lookup enables rapid item entry. Minimum stock amounts trigger automatic shopping list entries so frequently used products never run out, and multiple shopping lists can be maintained and shared across household members. Recipe management links ingredients directly to stock inventory, showing at-a-glance fulfillment status and a Due Score that highlights recipes best suited for consuming items approaching expiration. The meal planner organizes daily meals across customizable time periods and adds all missing ingredients to shopping lists with one click. Chore tracking schedules recurring household tasks with assignment to specific members, due date tracking, and completion history logging. Battery management monitors charge cycles for household devices with configurable reminder intervals. Custom fields and userfields extend any entity with additional data, while feature flags disable unused modules to simplify the interface. The RESTful API with integrated Swagger UI at the /api endpoint exposes every operation the web frontend uses, enabling third-party integrations with home automation systems. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Turn your scattered collection of liquor bottles and bar tools into a master mixology station with an intelligent digital cellar. Bar Assistant tracks your personal liquor cabinet, inventory levels, and available mixers against a catalog of more than 500 cocktail recipes. The platform calculates exact alcohol by volume ratings, computes ingredient costs per serving, and dynamically highlights every cocktail you can craft with on-hand supplies. Built-in recipe scrapers extract formula details, measurements, and glassware requirements directly from web links, JSON payloads, or YAML files. Multi-bar workspaces allow home mixologists and commercial venues to separate private collections from communal drink menus while handling complex ingredient substitutions, custom infusions, and shopping lists. Integrated Meilisearch indexing powers instant typo-tolerant searches across spirit categories, flavor tags, and cocktail strengths. Visual cocktail cards display high-resolution drink photography, user ratings, glassware requirements, and step-by-step garnish instructions. Deploy Bar Assistant on RepoCloud with dedicated VPS compute, full root SSH credentials, and in-browser console access, backed by an open-source MIT license.

That yogurt hiding behind the ketchup expired three weeks ago, and the flour you bought "just in case" has been sitting in the pantry since last winter. EverShelf replaces mental guesswork with a structured inventory system that tracks every item across pantry, fridge, freezer, and custom locations with precise quantities, expiry dates, and consumption patterns. Scan barcodes with your phone camera to add products instantly, or let the Gemini AI identify items from a photo and estimate shelf life based on storage location. The dashboard surfaces expired items and upcoming expirations with color-coded urgency badges, while anomaly detection flags suspicious quantities and consumption predictions that deviate from your history. Opened products get reduced shelf-life calculations; vacuum-sealed items get extended dates automatically. The recipe engine generates context-aware meal suggestions from your current inventory, prioritizing ingredients approaching expiry so nothing goes to waste; each recipe includes step-by-step cooking mode with text-to-speech narration and timer integration. A smart shopping list auto-populates when stock hits zero and syncs bidirectionally with the Bring! app, with AI-estimated prices per item and consumption forecasts showing when you will need to restock. For Home Assistant users, a native HACS integration provides 22 sensors, expiry calendars, bidirectional todo-list sync, and voice assistant support for adding items hands-free. A dedicated Kiosk mode optimizes the interface for wall-mounted tablets with BLE scale integration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Stop handing your daily food diary, body weight history, and biometric sleep data to ad-funded fitness clouds: NutriTrace brings complete calorie, macro, micronutrient, and wellness tracking to your own server with an offline-capable web PWA and native Android app. Log meals across customizable slots using live Open Food Facts and USDA FoodData Central lookups, barcode scanning, AI nutrition label OCR, or direct recipe imports from Mealie and CookTrace. Calorie and macro targets adjust automatically through three goal engines, including an inspectable Adaptive TDEE algorithm that regresses 35 days of intake against scale weight at 7,700 kcal per kilogram. Connect Fitbit via Google Health, Garmin, Withings, and Android Health Connect to pull steps, heart rate variability, sleep stages, and body composition into unified Sleep, Readiness, and Resilience scores. An integrated Trace AI assistant and Smart Log let you log meals by voice, text, or meal photo, while the opt-in Model Context Protocol server exposes 20 read, write, and management tools to Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex. Multi-user households get OpenID Connect SSO and one-step migration from MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, Lose It, and Waistline. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Your house already has lights, locks, sensors, thermostats, and speakers from many brands, and Home Assistant gives them one local control room with no vendor cloud in the loop. To close the shutters when the outdoor temperature holds above 25 °C, or to be alerted when the garage door is left open, build the routine in the visual editor: When, And if, Then do. Scenes, scripts, and blueprints package it for reuse, and run traces show what it did. More than 1,500 integrations cover Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, Thread, MQTT, ESPHome, Bluetooth, Hue, and Sonos, and network discovery offers known devices for one-step setup. To see the house at a glance, drag tile, thermostat, gauge, graph, and map cards into a dashboard, then put it on a TV with Home Assistant Cast. The Energy dashboard answers where the power goes, drawing solar, grid, battery, gas, and water as one distribution diagram with cost totals and per-appliance tracking. To talk to the house, use Assist: natural-language commands, wake words, and custom sentences run locally or through Home Assistant Cloud. The map panel shows who is home, plotting people against zones such as Home, Work, and School from the iOS and Android companion apps. Areas and labels keep large setups tidy, and multi-factor authentication guards each account. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

If cloud-dependent smart home hubs and YAML-heavy configuration files leave your household at the mercy of vendor outages and broken scripts, Gladys Assistant puts your entire home under clean, point-and-click local control. Zero YAML required. Pair thousands of lights, thermostats, smart plugs, locks, and sensors directly through native Zigbee2MQTT, Matter, Z-Wave, and MQTT support, or install hundreds of sandboxed community integrations for Philips Hue, Shelly, Sonos, TP-Link Tapo, Netatmo, and Reolink cameras in a single click. Visual scenes make automation effortless. Trigger multi-step routines from motion sensors, sunrise schedules, house presence, calendar events, or electricity tariff changes, and chain conditional actions with delays, HTTP webhooks, and Telegram alerts. Customizable room dashboards display live RTSP camera streams, climate charts, weather forecasts, and interactive dimmer controls. Built-in energy monitoring tracks real-time wattage, historical kWh consumption, and utility contract costs across every circuit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.