Until recently, my fiancée and I used Bring! to manage a list of groceries, we need to buy. Recipes we saved in a Telegram channel, pinning those we want to do in the following days.

The recipes in Telegram will probably stay, but for Bring! I found a nice alternative called KitchenOwl. It’s an open-source and self-hosted tool (you don’t need to self-host though), available via Web, Android, and iOS app that replicates all the important Bring! features (shared grocery shopping list) and also add recipe management. If you like, you can also use it to track grocery spending.

It’s great that I found these alternative, as Bring! is only really usable with the premium subscription and even with that, it’s still showing shopping flyers etc. So why pay 2 euros per month for that, if my VPS is just 4 euros per month and also hosts a lot of other software? 😄

The only feature I will be missing, is the watch companion app. But I didn’t use that much with Bring! anyway.