AnyMeal is a free recipe database software. It can manage a cookbook with more than 250,000 recipes, thereby allowing to import, export, search, display, edit, and print them. AnyMeal is available for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.


Mastercook is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is AnyMeal, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Mastercook and five of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Mastercook are Gourmet Recipe Manager, Cookbook, Krecipes and Ratatool Recipe Costing Tool.
AnyMeal is a free recipe database software. It can manage a cookbook with more than 250,000 recipes, thereby allowing to import, export, search, display, edit, and print them. AnyMeal is available for GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.


Gourmet Recipe Manager is a simple but powerful recipe-managing application. Gourmet is intended for the GNOME desktop environment, but works on any platform that gtk supports, including windows.






Cookbook is a free recipe manager. You can assign recipe to categories, add multiple photos and compose menus from saved recipes.



The KDE cookbook.
A highly configurable recipe manager, designed to make organizing your personal recipes collection fast and easy. Features include: shopping lists, nutrient analysis, advanced search, recipe ratings, import/export various formats, and more.




Software made for restaurant owners to manage their daily recipe professional forms and evaluate their recipe costs. Easy to use and specially built to increase productivity and profitability.

Free Alternative with a no fuss nothing forced approach. While it is definately missing some features the team are more than happy to listen to ideas for the future. note tat my use is on windows 10x64 with a current recipe database holding over 60k recipes at a file size of 110mb (no images)