# CookTrace

CookTrace is a self-hosted recipe, pantry, and cooking tracker for individuals and households that want local control over food data. It is open source and self-hosted, installable on Unraid.

Canonical page: https://ourlocalhost.com/app/6960/cooktrace

## Description

CookTrace is a self-hosted recipe, pantry, and cooking tracker for individuals and households that want local control over food data. It runs as a single Docker container with a browser PWA, native Android and Wear OS apps, and no telemetry or external accounts. It manages a recipe library with cook mode, live scaling, and a nutrition facts box, tracks pantry items with barcode scanning and expiration digests, plans meals on a calendar, logs cooks, and builds aisle-grouped shopping lists. It imports recipes from URLs, files, Mealie, Paprika, and Tandoor archives, supports multi-user access with OpenID Connect single sign-on, shared cookbooks, NutriTrace diary logging, and scheduled backups. Your data stays in a local appdata folder.

## Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms: Unraid.

## Health score

69/100 (Good), based on 3 of 4 factors.
- Maintained: 100 (last commit 3 days ago)
- Popular: 45 (186 GitHub stars)
- Easy to install: 35 (1 install platform, install notes, Docker image)

## Links

- Documentation: https://traceapps.github.io/docs/cooktrace/
- Unraid: https://ca.unraid.net/apps/cooktrace-002n7az1l5cqsn?q=CookTrace
- GitHub: https://github.com/TraceApps/cooktrace

## 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.

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