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CookTrace

CookTrace is a self-hosted recipe, pantry and cooking tracker.

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CookTrace is a self-hosted recipe, pantry and cooking tracker. Keep a recipe library with cook mode, live scaling and a Nutrition Facts box, track your pantry with barcode scanning and expiration digests, plan meals on a calendar and log what you cooked, and build a shopping list from recipes, grouped by aisle. Import recipes from a URL or a file, or in bulk from Mealie, Paprika and Tandoor archives. Share cookbooks with other users or a whole household, log cooks to your NutriTrace diary, and use the native Android and Wear OS apps. Multi-user with OIDC single sign-on and scheduled backups. No telemetry and no accounts on external services; your data stays in your appdata folder. Before the first start, fill in JWT Secret with a long random string, for example the output of openssl rand -base64 48. Insecure Cookies starts at 1 so that signing in works over plain http:// on your LAN,

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.

65/100 Good

Maintained
100last commit 2 days ago
Popular
45186 GitHub stars
Easy to install
201 install platform, Docker image
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today

GitHub stars
186
Open issues
6
Last commit
2026-10-11
Latest release
v1.4.0
License
AGPL-3.0
Activity
steady

Checked today - source: GitHub (TraceApps/cooktrace)

Resources & Compatibility

ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) is supported.

Checked today - source: Docker Hub image tags and published docs

First-install notes

No first-install notes yet.

Alternatives

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Common questions

Does CookTrace need multiple services to run?

No. It is bundled into a single Docker container with a Node/Express server, a Svelte PWA, a SQLite database, and a Capacitor Android app.

Does CookTrace require cloud sync or send telemetry?

No. It is described as having no telemetry and no cloud sync.

Is self-hosting CookTrace free?

Yes. CookTrace is free to self-host and always will be, with no paid tier and no feature behind a donation.

Can the Android app be used offline?

Yes. The Android app can run fully offline or sync against the same server.

Are nutrition results from CookTrace considered professional medical advice?

No. CookTrace is not medical, health, or nutrition-professional software, and its nutrition outputs are for informational self-tracking only.

Answers sourced from github.com, github.com, traceapps.github.io, traceapps.github.io

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