🥘 recipebox Live · Self-host

A recipe vault + weekly meal planner for home cooks who actually want grandma's handwriting preserved.

Save recipes with source, notes, ingredients, steps. Photograph grandma's index cards and save them alongside. Plan a week by dragging recipes onto days. Auto-generate a shopping list from the plan. Small, fast, and built for a family kitchen, not a food blog.

What it does

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Recipe vault

Title, source, servings, prep + cook time, ingredients (structured), steps, notes. Import from JSON and paste Schema.org Recipe from any cooking site — many auto-parse.

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Card photos

Got a stack of handwritten index cards from grandma? Photograph each, attach to a recipe, OCR the text. The cards stay; the text becomes searchable.

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Week planner

Drag recipes onto days of the week. Serves-for count built in. See calorie + macro totals per day if you've filled those in. Easy to copy a plan forward.

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Shopping list

Generated from the week plan. Groups by pantry/produce/dairy/protein. Mark items you already have to exclude. Print-friendly view for the actual grocery run.

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Tags + search

Tag recipes (weeknight / vegetarian / kids-approved / holidays / Jess's favorites). Fast full-text search across titles, ingredients, notes.

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Your kitchen, your data

Flask + SQLite, runs on a laptop. No ad-laden food-blog middlemen. Share selected recipes via read-only links to extended family.

Quickstart

# clone and install git clone https://github.com/Dangercorn-Enterprises/recipebox.git cd recipebox pip install -r requirements.txt # run — dashboard on port 8466 python app.py # → http://localhost:8466

Pricing

Self-host
$0/forever
  • Clone from GitHub
  • Run on any laptop or VPS
  • Your data stays yours
  • All core features
  • AI features (BYOK)
Get the source
Family Plus
$29/mo
  • Everything in Pro
  • Multi-family shared recipes
  • Meal-prep mode
  • Pantry inventory sync
  • Mobile-friendly PWA
  • Priority support
Contact sales

Hosted plans are early-access. Self-host today; email tim@dangercorn.net to join the waitlist.

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