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Mealie

A recipe manager and meal planner you host yourself, with import from any URL

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What it is

Mealie keeps your household's recipes in one place and turns them into meal plans and shopping lists. Paste a link to a recipe page and it pulls in the ingredients and steps. It runs in Docker and works well on a phone in the kitchen.

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13,635 GitHub stars.
13,635

Forks
1,588
Commits
5,696
Contributors
318
Language
Python
License
AGPL-3.0
Last commit
Oct 20, 2026
On GitHub since
December 2020
First release
January 2021
Platforms
web, self-hosted
Self-hostable
Yes
Alternative to
Paprika, Plan to Eat
Tags
  • recipes
  • web-scraping

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Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Bluesky“If you like this, there is a self hostable app called Mealie that will do this and work as a recipe organizer and shopping list generator:”Mar 27, 2025 · 12 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“holy crap, I found an app I always wanted and didn't know existed: Mealie You give it a URL, it scrapes the page, pulls ingredients, photos, and steps and you…”Mar 30, 2026 · 4 likes · 6 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Are you familiar with”May 10, 2026 · 4 likes · 2 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“@recipe.exchange awesome website. Please consider: 1) a browser extension for adding new recipies 2) a batch importer from other recipe managers (e.g…”Apr 11, 2026 · 2 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Oh this is cool :) 👨‍🍳 Mealie - self hosted recipe manager it has recipe imports via url etc, and can make shopping list(s). Easy docker setup :D”Mar 12, 2025 · 3 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“mealie.io is what I use for this.”Feb 15, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Because it can run docker containers, it was trivially easy for me to just set up an instance of mealie.io on there and get my wife set up to move her recipes…”Jan 1, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsMealie: self-hosted recipe manager and meal plannerMar 4, 2025 · 2 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Yay I got mealie.io working It's a self-hosted meal planner and recipe management app for my #HomeLab Basically I have a home mini-server so I can run my own…”Feb 7, 2025 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“P.S. Mealie is a self-hosted recipe book, and it imports recipes from garbage websites like that pretty well, so you can skip the clicking around and ads and…”Nov 25, 2024 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“i use Mealie mealie.io”Apr 2, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Whoa! Big discovery with the "mealie" recipe manager. It does a crazy good job of importing recipes from an URL. I knew that. But that doesn't help if the…”Dec 23, 2025 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Because I can’t do things the easy way, I’m self-hosting an instance of Mealie.io. But I use iOS reminders + Grocery for shopping. Because I like to have Siri…”Dec 18, 2024 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Look into mealie.io it will strip out all that nonsense and give you just the recipe”Nov 28, 2024 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“28/? docs.tandoor.dev and mealie.io are pretty cool if you are into self hosting. I'll be back later (maybe) with more”Oct 21, 2024 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)