Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue.
Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and Mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor. Mealie also provides an API for interactions from 3rd party applications.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Fuzzy search.
- Tag recipes with categories or tags to flexible sorting.
- Import recipes from around the web by URL.
- Progressive Web App.
- Create Meal Plans.
- Generate shopping lists.
- Easy setup with Docker.
- Customize your interface with color themes layouts.
- Export all your data in any format with Jinja2 Templates, with easy data restoration from the user interface.
- Localized in many languages.
- Flexible API.
- Custom key/value pairs for recipes.
- Webhook support.
- Interactive API Documentation thanks to FastAPI and Swagger.
- Raw JSON Recipe Editor.
- Migration from other platforms.
- Chowdown.
- Nextcloud Cookbook.
- Random meal plan generation.
Website: docs.mealie.io
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Hayden Kotelman and contributors
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Mealie is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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