Norish review
Norish combines recipe imports, shared meal planning, and grocery lists in an open-source web app.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Norish is an open-source recipe manager for households that want to collect recipes, plan meals, and cook together. It runs on the web or on users’ own hardware, and includes recipe importing, cookbooks, a shared calendar, and grocery lists. Its household focus makes it a fit for people coordinating meals and shopping; it is less suited to anyone looking specifically for a supported native mobile app.
The workflow spans planning through cooking: meals go onto a shared calendar, grocery lists sync in real time and can include recurring items, and cooking mode presents recipe steps with timers. Users can scale ingredient quantities and switch between metric and US units. Recent recipes, groceries, and calendar data are available offline. These connected features make Norish more than a recipe archive, though its described platform coverage remains web-focused.
Norish is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and runs on users’ own hardware. CalDAV, OIDC, GitHub OAuth, and Google OAuth are among its integrations. Optional AI features can enrich recipes and provide nutrition information or allergy detection, but require the user to configure an OpenAI-compatible provider; recipe imports from links, videos, photos, or pasted text are also available. Choose Norish if open-source self-hosting and shared household planning matter more than a native mobile app. Those wanting native iOS or Android support should consider another option for now.
Norish pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Imports recipes from links, videos, photos, and pasted text
- Combines a shared meal calendar with real-time grocery lists
- Offers step-by-step cooking mode, timers, and scaled ingredients
- Where it doesn't
- Self-hosting requires users to run it on their own hardware
- AI enrichment and allergy detection require a configured provider
- Native iOS and Android apps are planned, not supported platforms
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