Free, open-source alternatives to Samsung Food

Recipe saving and meal planning, formerly Whisk. 4 apps you can run yourself instead of Samsung Food, sorted by how well they replace it. Each one is open source, so your data stays with you.

  1. MealieBest match

    Material design inspired recipe manager with category and tag management, shopping-lists, meal-planner, and site customizations. Mealie is focused on simple user interactions to keep the whole family using the app.

    13.5k starsMITUpdated 13 October 2026
  2. Tandoor Recipes

    Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built-in models or external storage providers hosting PDFs, Images or other files.

    8.7k starsMIT, Commons-ClauseUpdated 6 October 2026
  3. RecipeSage

    A recipe keeper, meal plan organizer, and shopping list manager that can import recipes directly from any URL.

    975 starsAGPL-3.0Updated 11 October 2026
  4. Recipya

    Clean, simple and powerful recipe manager your whole family will enjoy.

    410 starsGPL-3.0Updated 16 September 2026

Side by side

AppStarsLicenseActivityRuns on
Mealie13,536MITPython
Tandoor Recipes8,666MIT, Commons-ClausePython, Docker, Kubernetes
RecipeSage975AGPL-3.0Node.js
Recipya410GPL-3.0Docker, Go

Why replace Samsung Food?

Samsung Food works, but your data lives in someone else's account, the price can change at any time, and features can disappear. An open-source app you run yourself is yours: you choose where it runs, who can see the data, and when to update.

Questions

What is the best free alternative to Samsung Food?

Mealie is the closest open-source replacement for Samsung Food in our list. Tandoor Recipes and RecipeSage are worth a look too, depending on what you need.

Can I self-host an alternative to Samsung Food?

Yes. All 4 apps on this page are open source and can run on your own server, usually with Docker, or on a managed host that installs them for you.