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norishvsvanilla-cookbook

Two self-hosted Recipe Management projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

norishvanilla-cookbook
Score61/10046/100
Rank in category#3 of 18 in Recipe Management#13 of 18 in Recipe Management
GitHub stars1 424158
Stars, last 30 days+196—
Stable releases, 12 months013
Latest release—v1.6.1 · 28 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseAGPL-3.0GPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptJavaScript

Which one should you pick?

norish scores 61/100 against 46/100 for vanilla-cookbook, so it is the safer default.

vanilla-cookbook ships more often: 13 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for norish.

If you want the quickest setup, vanilla-cookbook is easier to run; norish needs more configuration.

norish is growing faster right now (+196 stars in 30 days).

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