Zest – A single-container recipe manager built without front end tools
Treats recipes as memories, not data—beautiful cards, zero dependencies, ships in one Docker compose.

My name is Zachary and I've built this app a few times now, in different seasons and with different frameworks. I originally created this tool to give a gift to someone, and now it's morphed into a product I hope people will find useful. There's thoughtful, human-curated features. As someone who loves to cook, it has a lot of features I know I will personally use, such as:
- different sizes for printing [for different index cards] - allergen information - macros - easy way to scale up or down ingredients - can switch between metric and imperial measurements
Treats recipes as memories, not data—beautiful cards, zero dependencies, ships in one Docker compose.
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Card-based interface beats spreadsheet tables for mobile database browsing.
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