Cookie
Self-hosted recipe manager
Cookie is a self-hosted recipe manager that searches, imports, and organises recipes from 15 cooking websites, or any URL with structured recipe data. It runs on modern phones and laptops, and on old iPads from 2012 that can't run anything else. Two frontends, one API, feature parity between them.
I built the original prototype in 3 days and have been developing it since. It's coming soon at cookie.matthewdeaves.com.
Features
- Search across 15 recipe sites simultaneously (AllRecipes, BBC Good Food, Serious Eats, and more)
- Import by URL from any site with automatic extraction of ingredients, steps, and timings
- Dual frontend: React 19/TypeScript for modern browsers, vanilla ES5 for iOS 9 Safari
- Step-by-step cooking mode with built-in timers, audio alerts, and screen wake-lock
- Multi-profile system with collections, favourites, and per-user preferences
- Passkey authentication (WebAuthn) or home mode (no login) with device code pairing for legacy iPads
- AI-powered recipe remixing, serving adjustments, personalised discovery, and cooking tips (optional, via OpenRouter with 10 models across Claude, GPT, and Gemini)
- 26-job CI pipeline with security scanning (Trivy, Semgrep, Bandit, Gitleaks)
- No tracking, no analytics, no email addresses stored, functional cookies only
Tech Stack
Django 5 Django Ninja React 19 TypeScript ES5 (legacy) Tailwind CSS PostgreSQL 18 Docker nginx
Screenshots
A selection of screenshots showing Cookie across different platforms and themes.
Desktop
Mobile
Legacy iPad (iOS 9)
