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KitchenOwl
A shared shopping list, recipe box and meal planner the whole household can use.
Food & home
AGPL-3.0-only
What it does
KitchenOwl is a shopping list that everyone in the house shares. Tap a tile to add milk, and it appears on your partner's phone straight away, even in a shop with bad signal. Keep your recipes, plan the week's meals and add a recipe's ingredients to the list in one go. It can also track shared spending, so you know who paid for what. There are apps for phones, tablets and computers, and you run the server yourself.
- Shared shopping list that syncs instantly and works offline
- Recipes, recipe import from websites and a weekly meal planner
- Shared expenses and balances for the household
- Apps for Android, iPhone, web and desktop
Great for: Couples, families and flatmates who shop together and want one list that is always up to date.
- LicenceAGPL-3.0-only
- Where it runsOnline (about $5/month, usage-based) · Your computer (free)
- Built withpython, dart
- Your dataStays in your own copy
- SourceTomBursch/kitchenowl
Ways to use it
Choose one when you tell your AI. It sets everything up with you, in plain words.
- Online with Railway about $5/month, usage-basedA general-purpose host that can run any of these apps, including your own customised version. Usage-based pricing with a free trial. Third-party host.
- On my own computerFreeKitchenOwl has a desktop app. Your AI can install it with you.
Hosts are independent companies, not BespokeAI. You sign up and pay them directly. We may earn a referral fee, which never changes your price.
How people are using this project
Examples of what people ask their AI to do with KitchenOwl. Start from one, or just tell your AI and it will ask what you'd like.
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“Set up KitchenOwl so my husband, my mum and I share one shopping list on our phones, sorted the way our Sainsbury's is laid out.”
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“Help me add our ten favourite family dinners, plan next week's meals and put all the ingredients on the shopping list.”
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“Three of us share a flat. Use KitchenOwl's expenses so we can see who bought groceries and who owes whom each month.”
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“I want to say 'add washing-up liquid to the shopping list' to our Home Assistant voice assistant and have it appear in KitchenOwl.”
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“Our recipes are mostly in Hebrew. Help me use a local AI model with Ollama so imported recipes split their ingredients properly, without sending them to a cloud service.”
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“When I cook from a recipe on the kitchen tablet, I want much bigger text and the ingredients for each step shown beside it.”
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Can I trust it?
- AGPL-3.0-only. Free to use and change. If you run a changed version that other people use over the internet (not just your own household), you must offer them your source code under the same licence. Private family use has no extra obligations.
- Your data: stores personal data, on your own device or server. SQLite database and uploaded photos in the kitchenowl_data volume (/data); PostgreSQL optional.
- Other services: LLM provider through LiteLLM (OpenAI, OpenRouter and others) (optional, pay-per-use (or free with local Ollama)); Email (SMTP) (optional, free with most providers); OpenID Connect, Google or Apple sign-in (optional, free (self-hosted) or varies); Recipe websites (optional, free)
- Pinned version
cac641c. Every handover uses exactly this code, which we've reviewed. - Change JWT_SECRET_KEY from the example value and keep OPEN_REGISTRATION off.
- Upstream recommends running it behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS (and HSTS) if it is reachable from outside your home.
- If you set LLM_MODEL to a cloud model, ingredient lines from imported recipes are sent to that provider. Leave it empty or use Ollama to keep everything local.
- The MCP endpoint lets an AI assistant read and change your household's data. Only enable it if you need it.
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