Mealie
Mealie is a modern, self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a beautiful reactive web interface built in Vue. It pairs a REST API backend with a fast frontend, so the whole family can easily browse recipes, plan meals and generate shopping lists.
Key Features
- Beautiful built-in UI — A clean, responsive interface with light and dark themes and full mobile support
- Recipe importing — Scrape recipes from hundreds of sites and store them with photos and clean formatting
- Meal planner — Plan meals by day with drag-and-drop and automatic grocery-list generation
- Recipe scaling — Adjust servings and the ingredient quantities update automatically
- Households and users — Organise with separate profiles, permissions and shared households
- Nutrition and food database — Integrated nutritional data and your own list of available foods
- Full REST API — Documented API for automation and integration with other tools
Why Use Mealie?
The polished, modern interface is the standout: recipes, planners and shopping lists feel like a carefully designed product rather than a typical self-hosted app. It is a strong pick for households where several people will use it every day.
Use Cases
- Keep an entire family cookbook in one searchable, taggable place
- Plan the week’s meals and export a single consolidated shopping list
- Import your existing recipes from blogs, PDFs and other services
Platform
Self-hosted (Docker) — any browser with a mobile-friendly responsive UI
Licence
AGPL-3.0