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Recipe Scribe

Name: Recipe Scribe
Author: Recipe Scribe

A program for writing recipes.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

Overview

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: tags and folders.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Organize your collection into categories, and search by title, content, or both, with any number of search terms.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Light or Dark mode” — Flathub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Recipe Scribe is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

A no frills recipe program. Creates recipe files in text file format without a database and saves to your specified location. Includes a built in search to find recipes in your collection by title, ingredients, or both, with any number of search terms. Allows editing existing recipes from within the app without needing to open in a text editor. Help menu details program usage. Organize recipes into categories, managed from the Config menu Search by title, content, or both, filtered by category if you like Automatically adds bullet points to ingredients (configurable) Automatic indentation of directions (configurable) Automatic formatting of the title to the filename (configurable) Light or Dark mode

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 8 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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