Fork Recipes
Manage your food recipes with simplicity.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 11% of tracked projects; popularity more than 5%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 69 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v.4.1.1-Hot-fix · 28 Apr 2025 |
| Repo updated | 13 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Fork Recipes actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 22 commits, of which 3 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 1 commit a month.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 67% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The last tagged release, v.4.1.1-Hot-fix, is over 1 year old. If you deploy, expect to build from the default branch rather than a stable tag.
Fork Recipes ranks #11 of 11 tracked recipe management projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What Fork Recipes actually does
Fork Recipes is a self-hosted tool designed to help you organise and manage culinary recipes in a digital format. It provides a centralised space for storing cooking instructions and ingredient lists through a web-based interface. While specific input methods and formatting options are not detailed, it addresses the standard requirements of personal recipe administration.
Best fit: This is suitable if you want a dedicated, self-hosted option specifically for organising personal recipes rather than relying on commercial cloud notebooks.
Worth knowing: The project exhibits at-risk maintenance indicators, which means you may encounter unpatched bugs or a lack of timely updates.
Deployment notes
As a containerised application, you will typically need to configure persistent storage volumes for your recipe data and set up a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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