CookCLI vs Tandoor Recipes

Both are self-hosted recipe management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

CookCLI and Tandoor Recipes are closely matched on maintenance health (74 vs 76). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
CookCLITandoor Recipes
Health score 74/100 76/100
Commits (11 mo) 548 979
Commits (last 3 mo) 166 123
Stars 1.4k 8.6k
Latest release 25 Sept 2026 7 Sept 2026
Licence MIT MIT, Commons-Clause
Built with Rust Python, Docker, K8S
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

CookCLI

Command-line tool for automating meal planning and shopping with Cooklang recipes, scriptable for UNIX workflows, includes web server.

74/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 26/40
Releases 25/25
Community 8/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 66% of tracked projects; popularity more than 40%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 20 commits 2025-11: 53 commits 2025-12: 30 commits 2026-01: 85 commits 2026-02: 76 commits 2026-03: 72 commits 2026-04: 38 commits 2026-05: 8 commits 2026-06: 11 commits 2026-07: 9 commits 2026-08: 146 commits

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.

76/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 32/40
Releases 25/25
Community 15/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 79% of tracked projects; popularity more than 76%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 40 commits 2025-11: 84 commits 2025-12: 49 commits 2026-01: 138 commits 2026-02: 174 commits 2026-03: 213 commits 2026-04: 111 commits 2026-05: 47 commits 2026-06: 66 commits 2026-07: 21 commits 2026-08: 36 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted recipe management.