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OpenEats

OpenEats is a self-hosted recipe management site for creating, sharing, and storing personal recipe collections, designed for a single user or small group.

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OpenEats is a self-hosted recipe management site for creating, sharing, and storing personal recipe collections, designed for a single user or small group. Admin users manage accounts, cuisines, courses, and the homepage, while regular users add and share recipes.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms

  • Unraid
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm (not listed)
  • Mac (not listed)
  • Windows (not listed)
  • Linux (not listed)

Health score?A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). When the source code has been checked, a fifth factor, security check (20%: automated scan for committed secrets, unsafe desktop-app settings, known-vulnerable dependencies and project hygiene; any serious finding caps it at 20), is added. Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

59/100 Fair

Maintained
72last commit 36 days ago
Popular
57696 GitHub stars
Easy to install
351 install platform, install notes, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today, links checked 7 days ago

GitHub stars
696
Open issues
46
Last commit
2026-09-09
Latest release
1.5.1
License
MIT
Activity
stale

Checked 6 days ago - source: GitHub (open-eats/OpenEats)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is not supported.

Checked 17 days ago - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

  • First-Run Database Initialisation OpenEats requires a MariaDB database instance. On first start the container creates all necessary SQL tables. This process takes roughly 5–10 minutes and produces no log output. Do not stop or restart the container during this period, as doing so will leave the database in a broken state. source

Fetched 8 days ago - each note links to its source

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Checked 14 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

Are the released OpenEats containers easy to run on unRAID?

The released containers were reported as difficult to run on unRAID, which is why a separate unRAID Docker template was shared.

How can I self-host OpenEats without Docker?

Install it under /opt/openeats with a dedicated openeats user, install the dependencies as that user, and configure mod_wsgi to run as that user for the host.

What environment settings are needed before running OpenEats?

Create an environment file with DJANGO_SECRET_KEY, ALLOWED_HOST, and NODE_API_URL.

What first-time database setup is required?

You need to seed the database before using the app, then create a superuser by following the prompts.

Answers sourced from openeats.readthedocs.io, www.reddit.com, www.reddit.com

Community

Collected 11 days ago - public community threads