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mealie — Self-host Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend a

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. 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

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mealie

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. 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

⭐ 13,755 stars on GitHub · 🍴 1,618 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Python

What is mealie?

A standout opensource self-host project on GitHub — host on your own server for full control over your data and costs.

Main components

  • Recipe imports: Create recipes, by importing from a URL or entering data manually
  • Meal Planner: Use the Meal Planner to plan your what you'll cook for the next week
  • Shopping List: Put the necessary ingredients on your Shopping List, organised into sections of your local supermarket
  • Cookbooks: Group recipes into Cookbooks based on your own criteria
  • Docker: Easy Docker deployment
  • Localisation: Translations for 35+ languages

The biggest strength is active opensource community — fast bug fixes, regular features, no abandonment risk.

Best for self-host enthusiasts wanting to try a strong-community opensource project.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

  • 🏷️ meal-plans
  • 🏷️ recipe-manager
  • 🏷️ self-hosted

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie.git
cd mealie
docker build -t mealie .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 mealie

Minimum system requirements

Component Recommended
RAM 2048 MB
CPU 2 vCPU
Disk 25 GB SSD
OS Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / Debian 12
Docker 24.0+

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Resources

Article compiled from GitHub data on 31/10/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.