Mealie – self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager that brings recipes, meal planning and shopping lists together in a browser-based application. It provides a central place for organising family recipes, collecting dishes from the web and planning what to cook.

The application is designed for individuals and households, with an interface that works on desktops, tablets and phones. Recipes can be entered manually or imported from websites, while a structured ingredients system helps with shopping lists and meal preparation.

Mealie also supports multiple groups and households. Users can share recipe collections while maintaining separate meal plans, shopping lists and integrations. This makes it useful for families who want to share recipes without combining every aspect of their meal planning.

The software has a Python backend and a Vue-based frontend. It can be deployed on a home server, NAS or other Linux system, with its REST API providing integration opportunities.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Import recipes from websites, structured HTML and JSON, or create them using the integrated editor.
• Import existing recipe collections from applications including Tandoor, Paprika, Nextcloud Cookbook, Chowdown and Recipe Keeper.
• Organise recipes using categories, tags, cooking equipment and dynamically filtered cookbooks.
• Search recipes by ingredients, labels, ratings and other criteria.
• Scale recipe quantities and work with structured ingredients, measurements and unit conversions.
• Define ingredient substitutions for individual recipes or more generally across a collection.
• Use meal-planning rules to choose recipes based on ingredients, labels, categories and other properties.
• Build shopping lists from recipes, with ingredient grouping, labels and item management.
• Separate users into groups and households, sharing recipe collections while keeping selected household information private.
• Configure event-driven notifications, scheduled webhooks and custom recipe actions.
• Optional AI-assisted importing from text, images, websites and videos through configured providers.
• Provide REST API access, third-party integrations and downloadable application backups.
• Supports user authentication, OpenID Connect and multilingual interfaces.

Website: github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie
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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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