OneTimeQR 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 in 60 seconds
Everything in the box
Self-hosted QR digital menu builder for restaurants and cafes with printable table tents.
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.
Pick how you pay
Subscriptions if you want them — but the whole point is the lifetime tier.
Up and running in three steps
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-mvp 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.
Fair questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Menuly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/restaurant-menu-qr-mvp. 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.
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Self-hosted QR digital menu builder for restaurants and cafes with printable table tents.
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