
Mealie
Self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner that imports recipes from any URL and generates shopping lists.
Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager, meal planner, and shopping list app with a REST API backend and a reactive Vue frontend. Paste in a recipe URL and Mealie automatically imports the title, ingredients, steps, and image using schema.org data, or enter family recipes by hand with the built-in editor.
Beyond storing recipes, Mealie handles the full cooking workflow: a meal planner for scheduling what you'll cook over the coming week, shopping lists organised into sections matching your supermarket's layout, and cookbooks for grouping recipes by your own criteria. Recipes support scaling servings, which recalculates ingredient quantities automatically.
Compared to paid apps like Paprika Recipe Manager or Whisk, Mealie's advantage is ownership and openness: your recipe database lives on your own server via a simple Docker deployment, the REST API lets third-party apps and scripts interact with your data, and the interface is translated into more than 35 languages. It's a good fit for families who want a shared, ad-free recipe hub they control.








