MigaBooks with covers
Organise recipes into books: your mum's, a friend's, or one per topic.
- Pin your favourite books on top
- Recipes grouped by category
- Swipe between recipes like the pages of a book
Version 1.0.0
Your recipes. Your books. Your kitchen.
Miga keeps your family's recipes in books with their own covers, guides you step by step while you cook and sorts the shopping by your supermarket's aisles. No accounts, no ads, and everything stays on your phone.
No accountsNo adsNo analyticsOpen source (GPL-3.0)English and Spanish
Recipe booksCooking modeTimersDictation and voiceShopping listProduct scannerOpen Food FactsCooking assistantYour own serverRecipe packsPDF and imageEncrypted backupsThemes and framesWidgetFingerprint lock
Made for your kitchen, not to sell your data
Miga has no servers of its own and never asks you to sign up. What you save is yours and stays on your phone.
Everything on your phone
Recipes, photos, lists and settings live on the phone. It works offline.
No accounts, no ads
No sign-up, no advertising, no analytics. Open the app and start cooking.
You decide what leaves
The internet is only used for what you turn on: your assistant, Open Food Facts, packs or your server.
Open source
GPL-3.0 licensed. Read the code, build it and suggest improvements.
Interactive preview
Explore Miga
Pick a part of the app to see what it can do for you.
Books and recipes
A recipe book for everything
Make a book for each person or each topic, each with its own cover, and fill it with complete recipes.
- Complete recipes: ingredients with quantity and unit, steps, photos, difficulty, times, servings, origin with a flag and tags.
- Sub-recipes: keep the sauce, the dough or the side apart, each with its own ingredients and steps.
- Optional ingredients: mark the parsley for garnish without cluttering its name.
- Servings on the fly: change the servings and the quantities update themselves.
- My notes: dated notes that never change the recipe: “next time, less salt”.
Cooking mode
Cook with your hands in the dough
One step at a time, in large type, with the screen kept on.
- One-tap timers: “simmer for 10 minutes” turns into a timer.
- Read aloud: Miga reads each step with the voice you choose.
- Hands-free: say “next”, “back”, “repeat” or “timer” without touching the phone.
- Clear formatting: times and temperatures in bold, easy to spot.
Shopping list
Shopping in your supermarket's order
Add what you need by typing, dictating, scanning or straight from a recipe, and walk it aisle by aisle.
- By aisle: grouped by category and sorted like your supermarket.
- Several lists and templates: home, the party, and your saved weekly shop.
- Store mode: swipe to tick items off while the screen stays on.
- Share: as text, with a QR code or synced with your family.
- Widget: add items from the home screen without opening the app.
Product sheet
Know what you buy
Scan a barcode and read the product sheet with Open Food Facts' open data.
- Nutri-Score and NOVA: nutritional quality and processing level at a glance.
- Allergens and additives: what to watch out for, clearly flagged.
- A score from 0 to 100: Miga's own rough estimate from that data.
- Nutrition table: energy, fat, carbs, fibre and protein per 100 g.
Cooking assistant
Help whenever you want it
Optional AI features with your own key. Without one, nothing is sent anywhere.
- Recipes from photos: snap a recipe from a book or a handwritten card and the editor fills itself.
- From a web page: paste a link and get the clean recipe, without the ads and life stories.
- Improve recipes: better wording and tidy ingredients; you see the before and after.
- Ideas: ask what to cook with what you have, plan a weekly menu or find a seasonal dish.
Sync
Share books and lists with your family
Connect Miga to a server you host and share books and the shopping list across phones.
- Your server: miga-server runs at home or on your VPS with Docker.
- QR invitations: scan the code from another phone and you're connected.
- Live shared list: it refreshes every few seconds while you look at it.
- No third parties: your data only goes to your server.
Features
Everything Miga does
A complete app for home cooking, explained without fine print.
Search and filters
Find any recipe across all your books by name or ingredient.
- Filter by time, difficulty, category, equipment, tags, ingredients or origin
- Favourites in one tap
- Active filters as chips you remove one by one
A friendly editor
Writing a recipe is quick: the app suggests what you've used before.
- Steps with bold, italic, strikethrough and lists
- Dictate the steps with the microphone
- Select several recipes and change them at once
Matching photos
Crop, rotate and improve your photos, saved at just the right size.
- Frames for every photo: Polaroid, gallery, vignette…
- Automatic light, colour and sharpness ✨
- The dish photo is cropped for you when importing
Cooking mode
Big steps and the screen always on.
- Timers from the text
- Read aloud
- Voice control and hands-free
Shopping list
Add all the ingredients of a recipe in one go.
- Several lists and templates
- Sorted by your supermarket's aisles
- Store mode, QR code and widget
Scanner and Open Food Facts
Scan barcodes to add products and see their sheet.
- Nutri-Score, NOVA, allergens and additives
- A rough score from 0 to 100
- Open data under the ODbL licence
Import recipes
Bring recipes from wherever they are.
- From a Miga file (JSON or ZIP with photos)
- From photos, a web page or a dish name ✨
- Many recipes from many photos at once ✨
Export and share
Share a recipe or a whole book in the format you need.
- PDF with cover and contents, ready to print
- A recipe image ready for WhatsApp or Instagram
- A Miga file for another phone, or plain text
Backups
Save your whole library in one file and restore it whenever you like.
- Photos included
- Optional password encryption (AES-256)
- Works with Android's own backup
Your way
Make Miga look the way you like.
- Light, dark or system theme
- Eight accent colours, Garden by default
- English and Spanish
Private and secure
Your recipes, just for you.
- Fingerprint, face or PIN lock
- Assistant keys encrypted on the phone
- No accounts, ads or analytics
Optional
A cooking assistant that uses your own key
Features marked ✨ use artificial intelligence with the key you set up. You choose the provider and the model, and Miga only sends what each task needs.
Google GeminiAnthropic ClaudeOpenAIOpenRouter (free models)
Add several and they are used in your order: if one fails, the next one steps in.
- Recipes from photos and web pages: reads the text of a photo or a page and fills in the editor; you review it before saving.
- Improve recipes: one or many at once: better wording, tidy ingredients and times in bold. Nothing is saved without your say-so.
- Ideas: suggestions from your own recipes, weekly menus and answers about techniques, storage or substitutions.
- Health and nutrition: a rough health rating, calories and macros per serving, and ingredient substitutes.
- Keeps going when you leave: long tasks continue in the background with a notification that takes you to the result.
- Transparent: generated content is labelled and can be reported. With no key, nothing is sent.
miga-server
Your own sync server
To share books and the shopping list with your family, Miga connects to a server you host. It's lightweight, runs with Docker and comes with a full web admin.
- Start the servercopy
.env.exampleto.env, set an admin token and rundocker compose up -d. - Create a shared spacein the web admin, create a namespace (say, “home”) and a token for each phone.
- Connect the appin Settings › Sync server, add the connection. The rest of the family joins by scanning a QR code.
Private spaces
each namespace is shared by the phones you choose, with one revocable token per device.
Reliable sync
books, recipes, photos and lists, last edit wins even when clocks disagree.
Web admin
edit recipes in a spreadsheet-like table, change many at once or use the full editor.
PDF from the browser
download a recipe or a whole book with the app's design, in English or Spanish.
Automatic backups
a daily backup with rotation, plus one-click backups and downloads.
No external dependencies
one Docker image with SQLite; put it behind a TLS proxy to use it away from home.
Packs
Recipe packs, ready to install
A pack is a recipe book you install with one tap from Settings › Recipe packs. Its recipes can't be edited, but you can copy the ones you like into your books.
- Official catalogue: Miga reads this website's catalogue; each pack has a cover, an author and a recipe count.
- Other catalogues: add another one with a URL or a GitHub “user/repo”.
- Make your own: export a book as a Miga file (ZIP) and describe it in a
catalog.json.
Sample catalog.json
{
"schemaVersion": 1,
"packs": [
{
"id": "cocina-de-la-abuela",
"name": "Cocina de la abuela",
"author": "Ana",
"authorGithub": "ana",
"description": "Guisos, potajes y postres de siempre.",
"coverImageUrl": "covers/abuela.jpg",
"latestVersion": 1,
"recipeCount": 24,
"downloadUrl": "zips/abuela.zip"
}
]
}Help
Frequently asked questions
Is Miga free?
Yes. It's free and open source (GPL-3.0), with no ads or in-app purchases.
Do I need an account or the internet?
No. Everything works offline and without signing up. The internet is only used for what you choose: the assistant with your key, Open Food Facts, the packs catalogue and your server.
How much does the cooking assistant cost?
It depends on the provider you pick. OpenRouter has free models; with Gemini, Claude or OpenAI you pay them for what you use. Miga charges nothing and never sees your data.
Where are my recipes stored?
In your phone's internal storage, and on your own server if you use sync. Miga has no servers of its own.
Can I move my recipes to another phone?
Yes: with a full backup (optionally encrypted), by exporting books as Miga files, or with sync.
Is there an iPhone version?
For now Miga is Android only (8.0 or newer).
What does it send to Open Food Facts?
When you scan a barcode or search for a product, that code or text goes to Open Food Facts to fetch its sheet. The data is open (ODbL licence).
Start your recipe book today
Download Miga, create your first book and save that recipe everyone keeps asking for.