🍽️ Menuly
QR menus you own forever — update a price and the guest sees it the instant they scan.
Toast and other QR-menu SaaS charge $29+ a month, forever, with per-location fees and your menu held hostage in their cloud. Menuly builds your menu in a drag-and-drop editor and serves a fast, phone-first menu page from your own server. $24, once. Change a price or 86 a dish and it updates the instant a guest scans.
Menuly screenshot is being captured — the app is shipped and real.
Features
Menu builder
Categories and items with name, description, photo and dietary tags, all drag-to-reorder.
Server-rendered menu page
Pure HTML with inline critical CSS and no JS bundle, so it loads instantly on any phone with sticky category nav.
86 it in one click
Toggle an item out of stock and it vanishes from the live menu immediately, toggle back when the kitchen restocks.
Specials section
Mark items as specials and flip one switch to show a Today's Specials section at the top of the menu.
Branding per venue
Dark or light theme, accent color, logo and tagline, all respected on the public page.
QR + printable table tent
A locally-generated QR PNG with no external APIs, plus a fold-ready US-Letter table-tent PDF.
Multi-location
One admin managing many venues, each with its own slug, QR and branding, with one-click menu copying between them.
100% local and private
SQLite plus local image storage, with no telemetry and no third-party calls.
Menuly vs Toast QR menus
Toast QR menus at $29+/mo runs roughly $348/year — $696 over two years. Menuly is $24, once.
| Menuly | Toast QR menus | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24 once | $29+/mo |
| Cost after 1 year | $24 | $348+ |
| Your data | Your SQLite file | Their cloud |
| Locations | Unlimited | Per-location pricing |
| Menu page speed | Server-rendered HTML, no JS | Bloated hosted pages |
| Works offline (builder) | Yes — desktop mode | No |
| Source code | MIT, on GitHub | Closed |
Menuly pays for itself in under one month of a QR-menu subscription — and it never charges you per location.
Three steps, no subscription
Buy once on Whop
One payment of $24 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/restaurant-menu-qr and run it free.
Build the menu
Use desktop mode at the counter to add categories, items, photos and branding for each venue.
Print the QR and go live
Deploy to a $5 VPS with docker compose up -d, print the QR table tent, and guests scan a live menu you control.
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Menuly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/restaurant-menu-qr. The $24 buys the packaged Windows installer with zero setup; building from source is free.
Where does my menu live?
In your own SQLite file with images in local storage, served from your own server — no telemetry and no third-party calls, so your menu is never hostage to a SaaS.
Do I pay more for extra locations?
No. Menuly supports unlimited locations from one admin for the same $24, versus the per-location pricing the subscription tools charge.
Own Menuly forever
$24 once. Deploy on your own server — your data never leaves it. No renewal, no account with us, no meter. Or build it yourself from the MIT source — it's the same app.