Welcome to Cuicuit!
Hi! I'm Pierre 😊 I built Cuicuit for myself and thought it might be useful to more people: an app that takes the mental load out of groceries. Throw in meal ideas whenever you think of them, add missing items, and Cuicuit merges everything into one shopping list sorted the way you walk the store, and tells you which meals you can already cook.
Open source, free to use, and this is only the beginning. Thank you so much for checking it out! I'd love to chat about what you think on Discord 🦚.
Highlights
- Import any recipe in seconds: paste a link, a video, a photo, or plain text.
- Meal plan with no calendar: add meals the moment you think of them.
- Real-time combined shopping list: merged, grouped by aisle, readable quantities.
- Know what you can cook: every meal shows whether you already have what it needs.
- Free, and great on your phone: install it as an app and take it to the store.
Import any recipe in seconds
Found a recipe on a blog, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, or a handwritten note? Paste the link, snap a photo, or paste the text. Cuicuit pulls out the ingredients, quantities, steps, and timings, and guesses the filters for you. Pasting a YouTube link even grabs the video thumbnail as the recipe photo automatically.
Imports show a live progress stepper so you can watch it happen, and re-importing a link you've used before is instant. Only imports use community "seeds" (1 per successful import), and everything else in the app is unlimited.
A meal plan with no calendar
Most planners make you fill a week grid. Cuicuit doesn't: you drop a recipe or a missing item into your plan whenever the idea strikes. No dates, no ceremony. When something's cooked, mark it and move on.
One shopping list that sorts itself
Every planned meal and extra item merges into a single list, grouped by supermarket aisle so you walk the store once. Quantities combine into readable fractions (1/2, not 0.5), and if your store lays out aisles differently, set your own aisle order and the list follows it. Each item stays linked to its meal, so you always know what it's for.
Know what you can cook
Every planned meal wears a cookability badge: green means you have everything, so the "what's for dinner" question answers itself. As you tick items off in the store, badges update live.
Free, and great on your phone
Cuicuit is free to use, funded by supporters instead of subscriptions. Install it on your phone as a PWA (it works as an app, no app store needed) and take it grocery shopping.
Also new
- For the tinkerers: a public REST API and an MCP endpoint for scripts and AI agents.
- Full recipe gallrey and filters plus search, and custom ingredients in recipes.
- Recipes without photos get a pretty ingredient grid instead of a blank box.
- Shopping list display settings and custom aisle order.
Come along for the ride
This is v0.1.0, an alpha that I use daily, with rough edges and lots of tweaks & features coming weekly. I would love you to join the adventure:
- Star the repo on GitHub, it really helps people find us.
- Self-hosting is coming soon: one docker-compose file, your recipes on your hardware. Click on "Watch > Custom > Releases" near the Star button on GitHub to get notified.
- Join the Discord, your feedback directly shapes what gets built next.
- Keep it free by supporting Cuicuit with seeds 🌱 on the hosted version (our way to share the hosting costs), or sponsor on GitHub if you're a self-hoster.
C'est cuicuit! 🐥