Freelove's Cookbot

Recipe

Online recipe sites are two pages of life story and eight video ads before you reach the actual recipe. Cookbot is the opposite: a private kitchen for the recipes you keep; captured once, in one clean format. Cookbot has support for multiple users, and is a great self-hosted recipe library.

Cookbot has an AI toggle that lets you completely hide all AI features and references to AI in the application. All AI tooling is COMPLTELY optional, and I wanted to respect your choice to avoid all of this modern AI funny business.

View on GitHub → Self-host it

Ingredients

AI recipe generation with Claude — or a copy-paste prompt for any LLM you like
Paste recipes as YAML, plain text, or free-form — Cookbot parses them
Step-by-step cooking mode with countdown timers and browser alerts
Scale any recipe up or down; amounts shown as clean fractions
Pantry tracking and one-tap shopping lists
Shareable cookbooks, multi-user, optional passwords
Offline nutrition — calories and macros, no API, no tracking
Export to Schema.org JSON-LD and Cooklang
Hate AI in everything? One toggle hides it completely.

Method

Grab it. curl -fsSLO https://github.com/NoahFreelove/freeloves-cookbot/releases/latest/download/docker-compose.yml
Serve it. docker compose up -d
Open it. http://localhost:7000 — and start cooking.

Needs Docker — no clone, build, or .NET SDK required; it pulls the latest released image straight from the registry. Recipes, photos, and your SQLite database stay on your machine. AI is opt-in and uses a key you control.

A look inside

A quick tour — scroll or swipe through the kitchen.

Home dashboard showing recipes that match the pantry, recently cooked meals, and upcoming planned cooks. — Home — tonight’s pantry matches, recent cooks & what’s next

Inside a cookbook listing recipes with prep time, cook time, and servings. — Cookbooks — your recipes, organized and shareable

A recipe page with scalable ingredients, substitutions, step timers, and doneness cues. — A recipe — scalable amounts, timers & step cues

Step-by-step cooking mode highlighting the current step, ingredients, and a countdown timer. — Cooking mode — one step at a time, with timers & alerts

Estimated nutrition panel showing calories and macros per serving from offline data. — Estimated nutrition — offline calories & macros

Pantry view tracking items in stock, running low, and expiring this week. — Pantry — track what’s in stock and what’s expiring

Grocery lists with progress bars; checking an item adds it straight to the pantry. — Grocery lists — check items off straight into your pantry

AI assistant generating a full recipe from a one-line prompt, shown beside the raw JSON. — AI assistant — generate a recipe from a sentence

AI settings — bring your own key, or switch AI off entirely

Heads up — Cookbot is a work in progress. A few features — notably the offline nutrition estimates and automatic unit conversions — are still rough around the edges and may not always behave. You may find it easier to manually update your pantry than use some of the automated grocery list features, but they will get better very soon in future updates.

Freelove’s Cookbot

Ingredients

Method

A look inside