Is RecipeSage Free and Open Source, and Which Platforms Does It Support?

RecipeSage is described on its own site as "a free, open source recipe keeper, meal planner, and shopping list manager for Web, Desktop, iOS, and Android." That single line answers both halves of the question: the project presents itself as free and open source, and it ships native apps for Windows, macOS, and Linux alongside iOS and Android apps plus a web app that can install to your home screen. Everything stays in sync across those platforms, and the collection remains searchable offline.

One caveat worth stating plainly: the site has a separate pricing page, so "free" here reflects the project's own description rather than a guarantee that every possible feature or tier is free forever. If cost matters to your decision, check that pricing page directly before committing.

What "free and open source" means here

• Free — the homepage describes RecipeSage as a free recipe keeper, meal planner, and shopping list manager.
• Open source — the same description labels the project open source, which means the code is publicly available rather than closed and proprietary.

The site does not spell out licensing terms or what, if anything, sits behind the pricing page. Treat the free/open-source label as the project's positioning and verify specifics on the pricing page if you need certainty.

Which platforms RecipeSage supports

Because every platform connects to the same account, recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists sync across all of them. The site also notes a one-tap offline mode for weak connections, and says your recipe collection stays searchable even without internet.

What you get on those platforms

The platform list matters mainly because the same feature set travels with you. According to the site, RecipeSage can:

• Import recipes automatically from any website URL, a photo (including cookbook pages and handwritten recipe cards), a PDF, or a document.
• Track nutrition — calories, macros, vitamins, and minerals per serving, with auto-fill by pasting a nutrition label and filtering by any nutrition field.
• Use Cook Mode — a full-screen view with ingredients and steps side by side, checkable as you cook, with on-the-fly serving scaling and a screen that stays awake with adjustable large font.
• Plan meals by drag and drop on a calendar, repeat items daily, weekly, or monthly, print the plan, and share it.
• Build smart shopping lists auto-categorized by grocery aisle, where adding recipes combines similar items.
• Scale recipes and convert units by multiplier, target yield, or a single ingredient's amount, including metric–imperial conversion.
• Use kitchen tools such as a pan size converter, measurement converter, cooking temperature lookup, nutrition calculator, and a search-by-ingredients-on-hand tool.

How to decide if it fits you

RecipeSage suits cooks who collect recipes from scattered sources — blogs, screenshots, PDFs, handwritten cards — and want one searchable home that follows them between devices, including offline at the grocery store. If you mainly need a single-device notes app, the cross-platform sync and import features are more than you require. If you want to confirm the current cost structure before signing up, visit the pricing page first; the site's own description calls the product free, but the existence of that page is the detail to check.