Mealie

Mealie is a self-hosted web application deployed with Docker and used through any modern browser, including on phones and tablets. There are no official native mobile or desktop apps, but the responsive web UI and REST API mean third-party clients can connect to it.

Yes. Mealie ships a full REST API backend, documented with OpenAPI/Swagger, that covers recipes, meal plans, shopping lists, and users. The API supports API keys so third-party apps and home-automation tools like Home Assistant can interact with your instance.

Yes. Paste a recipe URL and Mealie extracts the data using schema.org structured markup, which most major recipe sites publish. Recipes that fail to parse can be entered or corrected manually with the built-in editor. You can also export and import recipes in common formats for backup or migration.

Yes. Mealie is designed for households with multiple user accounts, each with their own cookbooks, meal plans, and shopping lists, alongside shared recipe access. It also offers long-lived tokens for API access.

Mealie is distributed as a Docker image backed by SQLite, so a small server or NAS with Docker installed is enough — no separate database container is required. Recipe URL imports work out of the box, though sites that block scrapers may need additional configuration.