Cuicuit

Cuicuit

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Your favorite
kitchen companion

Focus on meals, not ingredients. Cuicuit imports your recipes, plans your week, and creates your shopping list. Open source, self-hostable & hosted options.

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🐤 cui-cui = bird chirp in French · cuit = cooked · c'est cuicuit!

Screenshot of the Cuicuit app showing planned meals, recipe gallery, and shopping list.
import from anywhere*
Instagram
TikTok
YouTube
Facebook
Pinterest
Twitter / X
Photos
Websites
Any Text
Chrome

* Social media coming soon, Cuicuit is young! Most websites supported.

how it works

Three little steps, zero headaches.

01

Paste a recipe link

From any food blog. We parse ingredients, steps, timings and guessed filters.

02

Drop it in your plan

Drag meals into a flexible plan. Scale servings, tweak, or swap ingredients easily.

03

Just go shopping!

An aisle-aware list appears. Check things off as you cruise the store.

features

Small app, big appetite.

Cuicuit stays out of your way and does the boring parts, so cooking feels fun again.

Import from anywhere

Paste a link from your food blog, Cuicuit pulls the recipe and guesses convenient filters.

Groceries from Plan

Your plan turns into an aisle-aware grocery list, with smart suggestions from past purchases.

Export, Share & Connect

Cuicuit aims to provide open connectors like a REST API, AI MCP, and file exporting. Soon!

Shared households

Cook together. Invite family or roommates into shared spaces that stay in sync.

Mobile-friendly

Install Cuicuit on your phone as a PWA and take your list to the store. No app store (yet).

Yours to self-host

Open source and Docker-friendly. Keep your recipes, plans, and data on your own hardware.

🗺️ roadmap

From egg to full-grown

Cuicuit has a plan. Here's where we're headed, and you can vote to change the direction.

  1. 🚧 In Progress
    🥚
    Step 0
    Open Foundations

    Project setup, hosted version, basic multi-user support.

    • Publicly hosted version
    • Docker deployment
    • Self-hosted docs
    • Many bugfixes
  2. 🚧 In Progress
    🐣
    Step 1
    Import, Plan & Shop

    The core loop: recipes → meal plan → shopping list.

    • Import from websites
    • Shared households
    • Auto shopping list
    • Past purchase suggestions
  3. Planned
    🐥
    Step 2
    Pantry-Aware

    Track what's in your fridge and get smarter suggestions.

    • Pantry management
    • Recipe "cookability"
    • Expiration & Easy imports
    • Ingredient substitutions
  4. Planned
    🐓
    Step 3
    Habits & Smartness

    The app learns your patterns and saves you even more time.

    • Consumption habits
    • Smart recommendations
    • Timeline & stats
    • LLM assistant
future ideas

Explore future ideas being considered. Click to discuss them and vote!

🙌 Vote for features on GitHub
pricing

Pick your nest 🪺

Free forever if you self-host. A crowd-funded hosted version if you'd rather it just works.

Self-hosted
Free forever

Open-source, privacy-first, and yours to run. Dockerized deployment is on the way.

# available soon
$ wget https://get.cuicuit.app
$ chmod +x install.sh
$ ./install.sh
$ docker compose up -d
✓ serving on localhost:3000
Read the docs
SUPPORT THE PROJECT
Supporter
Any amount

5 € = 100 seeds 🌱 ≈ 100 recipe imports

  • Get your own seeds for some features
  • Unused seeds get shared to all users
  • Accelerate Cuicuit's development
  • A very warm thank-you 🩷
Hosted
Experiment
Free as a 🐤 bird

No credit card. Start in one click.

  • All features free with fair usage limits
  • Use the community garden's seeds 🌱 gifted by supporters
  • Some features pause if not enough supporters plant community seeds
Sign up on Hosted

What are seeds? 🌱

Cuicuit believes in a fair open concept: all features are free except costly ones to host. By supporting Cuicuit, you get your own seeds to use and give some to all users. Seeds let you import recipes from the web and .

where your money goes:
+ Your country's VAT
30% Yours
15% Shared
15% Dev.
10% Fees
30% Gov. Taxes

Personal Seeds 🌱

Reserved for you to shield you from empty garden moments. Shared if unused after 12 months.

Community Garden 🌱

Used by free users & supporters with fair limits. If very healthy, used to fuel development.

Servers & Development

Fixed server bills and paid tools. Anything left becomes my salary
to keep improving Cuicuit.

Taxes & Fees

Cuicuit is seen as a regular software product by your & my countries. Payment fees on top.

faq

Questions & Answers

Everything you might wonder before you crack the first egg.

+ What is Cuicuit?

Cuicuit is an open-source meal planning app that imports recipes from any website, helps you plan your week, and automatically builds an aisle-aware shopping list. More features like pantry-aware meal recommendations coming soon. It's free to self-host and offers a free hosted version.

+ Is Cuicuit really free?

Yes, and I hope forever! The full code is open source on GitHub and you can self-host it forever at no cost. The hosted cloud version also has an unlimited free plan, funded by a community moneypot. This free plan is an experiment, I hope to see enough supporters to keep the app free for everyone. If the free version freezes too often, I might have to go back to a regular 'freemium' model — self-host your own instance or support the project.

+ How does recipe import work?

Paste any recipe URL — food blog, magazine, or personal site — and Cuicuit parses the ingredients, quantities, steps, and timings using open web standards like schema.org/Recipe. It then uses AI to add filters, ingredient substitutions, and more!

+ Can I self-host Cuicuit with Docker?

Yes. Cuicuit ships with a docker-compose setup. Clone the repo, run 'docker compose up -d', and you'll have your own instance running in minutes. Your recipes and data stay on your hardware.

+ Does Cuicuit work offline as a mobile app?

Cuicuit is a Progressive Web App (PWA). Install it from your phone's browser and take your shopping list to the store — no app store required. Offline support coming soon-ish. Mobile app to be planned once Cuicuit grows enough.

+ Can my family or roommates share a meal plan with me?

Absolutely. Shared households let multiple people cook, plan, and shop together in the same synced space.

the story behind Cuicuit

A simple passion project 🪶

Hi! I’m Pierre, the human behind this little egg 😊. Cuicuit started as an app for myself: I love cooking, but I hate the 6pm panic of “what’s for dinner, and what do we even have in the fridge?”

I wanted a kitchen companion that felt warm and helpful — not like other cooking apps that need too many clicks and attention. So I started building Cuicuit in the open, one feature at a time.

I love and rely on open source software every day. I want to give back to the community by making the best OSS everything-kitchen app! However, maintaining and improving Cuicuit takes a lot of effort, so I am exploring a few ways to support its development, such as a crowdfunded hosted version and direct donations.

If you find it useful, a star on GitHub, voting for features, or a contribution to the moneypot keeps the project growing. Every bit of support means more time I can spend making Cuicuit the happiest little kitchen app on the internet. Bon appétit! 🇫🇷🐥

Star on GitHub

Thank you for being here. 🐣 — Pierre

C'est cuicuit. Dinner's sorted.

Import your first recipe in under a minute. See you on the other side!

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