A self-hosted culinary diary. Recipes + memories + beautiful shareable cards, all on your own hardware. No cloud, no subscriptions. Recipe apps are built for storing recipes, not for remembering why they matter. Zest goes beyond recipes. It's designed around the moments—the family dinners, the failed experiments, the dishes that became traditions.

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**What you get:** - 📸 **Memories**: A photo-based food diary where you capture and relive meals - 🎨 **Moment Cards**: Create beautiful, shareable images perfect for social media - 📚 **Cookbooks**: Curate recipes and export as PDFs - 🔍 **Ingredient Search**: "What to Cook?" finds recipes from what you have - ⏱️ **Cooking Mode**: Timers and step-by-step guidance, no distractions - 🔗 **4-Tier Web Scraper**: Import recipes from across the web - Completely self-hosted. One Docker container. SQLite inside. - No build tools, no Node modules, no external dependencies - MIT licensed and open source - Built with FastAPI, Vanilla JS, and Tailwind CSS Whether you're a home chef, a food blogger, or just someone who loves cooking, Zest is designed to help you cook with more intention and remember your meals with more joy.

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MyZest Recipe Manager and Memories

A self-hosted recipe manager with memories around the table

A self-hosted recipe manager with memories around the table