Cuicuit

alpha

welcome!

Pick your meals,
groceries get sorted

Spend less time on groceries: turn your meal ideas and missing items into one neat shopping list.

Open-source · Self-hostable · Hosted version

import from anywhere*

Websites

Photos

Any Text

Instagram

TikTok

YouTube

Facebook

Twitter / X

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

how it works

Three little steps

Paste a recipe link

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

Drop it in your plan

Drag meals and items into a plan. Scale servings, tweak, or swap ingredients.

Just go shopping!

An aisle-aware list appears, with suggestions and linked meals.

features

What makes it different

An app that is discreet, intuitive & open.

Magic sidebar

Throw ideas and missing things without planning, and your list gets organized.

Cookability

See which recipes are missing which items at a glance with real-time status badges.

Export & Connect

Cuicuit is fully extensible: use its REST API and AI MCP to connect with any other tools.

roadmap

Cuicuit just hatched 👋

Cuicuit wants to be the best everything-kitchen app, see the roadmap and vote to change it!

🚧 In Progress
🥚

Step 0

Open Foundations

Project setup, hosted version, basic multi-user support.
🚧 In Progress
🐣

Step 1

Import → Shop

The core loop: recipes, meal plan, shopping list.
Planned
🐥

Step 2

Your choice!

Join Discord and GitHub to choose features together!

Vote on GitHub Join Discord

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
$ 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
Accelerate Cuicuit's development
A very warm thank-you 🩷

Hosted

Free forever

Free as a 🐤

No credit card.

All features free with fair usage limits
Community seeds gifted by supporters
Paused if not enough supporters

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:

30% Yours

15% Community

15% Development Dev.

10% Fees

30% Taxes

Personal Seeds 🌱

Reserved for you. Shared if unused after 12 months.

Community Seeds 🌱

Used by free users with fair usage & rate limits.

Servers & Development

Server bills, tools, and my salary to maintain & improve Cuicuit.

Taxes & Fees

Cuicuit is seen as a regular software product for taxes.

Questions & Answers

Everything you might wonder before you crack the first egg.

+ What is Cuicuit?

Cuicuit is an open-source recipe app that helps you quickly get done with groceries: it automatically combines your meals and missing items into a neat aisle-aware shopping list. Free & open source, self-hostable and a hosted version.

+ Is Cuicuit really free?

Yes! 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. Only genuinely costly backend features need 'seeds' as a way to share the costs, use the cloud version daily for free.

+ How does recipe import work?

Paste any recipe URL and Cuicuit parses the ingredients, quantities, steps, and timings using open web standards like schema.org/Recipe. Behind the scenes, it guesses filters, ingredient substitutions, and more using AI (only low-CO2 inference locations).

+ Can I self-host Cuicuit with Docker?

Very soon! Cuicuit is preparing a docker-compose setup, right after the cloud version has been stabilized. Clone the repo, run 'docker compose up -d', and your recipes stay on your hardware, using your own API keys.

+ Where does the name Cuicuit come from?

Cuicuit is a play on words. In French, 'cui-cui' is the sound a bird makes, and 'cuit' means cooked. 'C'est cuit' is a French expression meaning 'it's cooked', so now we can say 'C'est cuicuit'! Pronounce it 'qui-qui(ck)' without the 'ck'.

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 can I even do with what's in my fridge?"

I wanted a kitchen companion that felt helpful and efficient, not like other cooking apps that need too many clicks and attention. The philosophy is simple: think about meals, not ingredients . Jot down ideas at home, get a convenient list to go, and (soon) know what your pantry can cook.

I love and rely on open source software every day. I want to give back by making the best OSS everything-kitchen app! Maintaining and improving Cuicuit takes a lot of effort, so I am exploring a crowdfunded hosted version and direct donations to keep it going.

If you find it useful, a star on GitHub, voting for features, or a contribution to the moneypot keeps us growing. Every bit of support means more motivation to keep making Cuicuit the happiest little kitchen app.

Thank you & Bon appétit! 🇫🇷🐥

Star on GitHub Join Discord

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!

Pick your meals, groceries get sorted