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Have you ever needed to have a single application recipes, shopping list, meal planning and expense accounts? Good because KitchenOwl it is exactly all this. Furthermore, it is a free application that you can install independently on your server or you can rely, for now for free, on the server managed by them.
In fact, let's start immediately by saying that the functioning of KitchenOwl it's entirely in the cloud and you can't even use it without creating an account first. As we were saying, however, it is free software and if you don't trust the developer you could create your own server. The policy is quite clear and decidedly honest: the project does not use zero-knowledge cryptography and what you enter can potentially be analyzed by the server owner 1.
The first step therefore, unless you self-host, is to register on their server by choosing a username and entering an email and password. When you log in via the smartphone application you will also be asked which server you need to log in to and the official one will be preset.
KitchenOwl, shared shopping list and more
Once you enter the application you will have to create your own family. You can have more families with which to share shopping and recipes and you can add users to each of these or even be the only users. After choosing and selecting one family you can get to the heart of the application. As you will see there are four tabs and, as we will see, this is not just a simple shopping list application but there is also much more:
- Shopping list, where you can enter things to purchase from a pre-compiled list or add a new item yourself;
- Recipes, you can add recipes to share with your family via links or by inserting ingredients, photos and everything you need to prepare it. It is also possible to insert the recipe inside the
- Meal planning this way you can add a different recipe for each day of the week.
- Balance sheets, it is also possible to use this application to budget the expenses made complete with photographs, amount of the expense, who paid it and when. It can also be a useful tool for those who share the apartment with other people, thus allowing more practical management of the shopping done.
Download the application for Android or iOS
KitchenOwl it is available everywhere, both via the web and via an application available on the Play Store, F-Droid or App Store.
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