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Sous Chef.
New: Sous Chef for iPhone is on the App Store

A little less “what’s for dinner?”
A little more let’s cook.

Meet your kitchen’s other half. Bring your pantry, recipes, and shopping list together — and make more of what you already have.

Make yourself at home Try the live demo

Free & open source · Self-hosted · Yours to keep

At home on your server Made for your household Your private kitchen stays local

Everything has its place.
Even the dinner question.

Less kitchen admin. More time for the good part.

01

A pantry with a little perspective.

Keep tabs on your fridge, freezer, and pantry. Track quantities and expiration dates so good ingredients don’t get forgotten.

Less guessing. Less going to waste.
02

Your recipes, all at home.

Collect your favorites, edit them your way, and import or export your recipe collection. Keep the dishes you love close at hand.

A cookbook that grows with you.
03

From “what’s missing?” to done.

Preview ingredient shortages, build your shopping list, and put purchases back into your inventory when you get home.

One less thing to keep in your head.
Scan. Add. Put away.Barcode lookup with Open Food Facts.
Cook with confidence.Unit-aware ingredient deductions.
A fresh idea, if you like.Optional AI drafts with your own key.

Some things are
better kept at home.

Your family recipes. Your weekly staples. That very specific way you organize the freezer. Give them a home on your own server.

Set up your own kitchen

A place of your own.

  • Private kitchen data stays on your server
  • No cloud account needed for the essentials
  • Export recipes and keep your own backups
  • Share with the community only if you choose
Self-hosted, by design.

Your kitchen is personal.
Inspiration can be shared.

Connect an optional recipe community to discover something new, bring home a recipe, or share a favorite of your own. Your pantry stays yours.

Learn about community sharing
Now on the App Store

Sous Chef for iPhone.
Your kitchen, in your pocket.

A native companion app for iPhone and iPad. Use it on its own with your kitchen synced through your iCloud, or connect it to your self-hosted server and keep both in sync. Scan barcodes and food labels, snap a cookbook page to save a recipe, and get recipe ideas from Apple Intelligence, privately.

Download on the App StoreFree · Requires iOS 26 or later

Want to help shape what’s next? Join the beta to try new features early and tell us what works. Join the TestFlight beta

Open source.
Room at the table.

Good tools get better when people make them their own. Read the code, report a bug, suggest an idea, or help build the next little improvement.

Find us on GitHub

A server. Docker.
An appetite.

  1. 01 Install Docker on your server
  2. 02 Run the published Sous Chef image
  3. 03 Open your kitchen & make it yours
Read the setup guide AGPL-3.0 licensed · No required paid services

A few good
questions.

Getting comfortable should be simple.

A happier kitchen starts here.

Make a little room for Sous Chef.

Let’s get cooking