Free alternatives to AnyList Complete

Meal plans and groceries run through a tiny home ERP, because apparently the fridge needed one.

Versus paying: Grocy is vastly more complex than a grocery list and lacks AnyList's fast native capture, voice-assistant integration, location-aware reminders, and polished household mobile sync.

Setup: Docker container/Compose, or install the PHP application on a web server

Watch for: The first obstacle is deploying and exposing a PHP/Docker web app; the larger practical hurdle is configuring locations, units, products, barcodes, and household routines before its ERP-like screens become useful.

9,358 GitHub stars (checked Aug 6, 2026)

A household recipe server with meal plans and grocery lists; you supply the server and patience.

Versus paying: Mealie shares recipes and shopping lists, but its web-first recipe-server workflow is slower for aisle-side list entry, notifications, Siri/Alexa capture, and offline mobile use than AnyList.

Setup: Docker Compose

Watch for: A non-expert needs Docker, persistent volumes, an update/backup routine, and usually a domain plus HTTPS; importing recipe sites also produces parsing failures that must be cleaned up manually.

12,900 GitHub stars (checked Aug 6, 2026)

Shared recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists with no recipe cap; the polish budget is smaller.

Versus paying: RecipeSage covers shared recipes, plans, and lists, but its mobile polish, instant grocery entry, voice integration, offline behavior, and location reminders are weaker than AnyList's.

Setup: Hosted signup at RecipeSage, or Docker Compose for self-hosting

Watch for: The public service has no setup blocker; self-hosting adds Docker, a database, mail, storage, HTTPS, and backups, while both versions have less refined native-mobile interaction than Paprika or AnyList.

Shared recipes, meal plans, and grocery lists for $0; Samsung gets the kitchen data instead.

Versus paying: Samsung Food is free and polished, but ads and recommendation tracking replace AnyList's focused paid utility, and its grocery capture and voice/reminder workflow are less disciplined.

Setup: Install the mobile app or use the web app, then create a Samsung Food account

The full recipe-plan-shopping loop; free for personal self-hosting, but the license is not actually open source.

Versus paying: Tandoor replaces a tiny household sync service with a Docker/PostgreSQL web app and lacks AnyList's frictionless native list entry, voice capture, reminders, and managed reliability.

Setup: Docker Compose with PostgreSQL; manual Django deployment is also documented

Watch for: The first obstacle is a multi-container Django/PostgreSQL deployment with secrets, volumes, HTTPS, email, and backups; its Commons-Clause-modified AGPL license is also not an OSI-approved open-source license.