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.
Actively maintained with regular releases.
Commit activity more than 79% of tracked projects; popularity more than 76%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 8.6k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 2.6.15 · 7 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 26 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MITCommons-Clause |
| Built with | Python, Docker, K8S |
Is Tandoor Recipes actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 979 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 123 of them.
Activity is cooling: commits are down 67% against the previous quarter. One slow quarter is normal; two in a row is a signal.
The most recent tagged release, 2.6.15, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 11 projects we track in Recipe Management, Tandoor Recipes ranks #3 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Tandoor Recipes actually does
Tandoor Recipes is a Django-based web application designed to help you organise, tag, and search your personal collection of culinary guides. It supports both native data entry and the attachment of external files such as PDFs or images for your cooking reference.
Best fit: It is well suited for self-hosters who want a dedicated, locally hosted repository for digitising and searching through their household recipe collection.
Worth knowing: The software carries the Commons-Clause alongside its MIT licence, which restricts commercial use and monetisation of the code. Additionally, managing Django applications via containers requires attention to migration procedures during updates.
Deployment notes
As a containerised Python application, it typically requires a persistent volume for uploaded files and a database backend, alongside a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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