mealie-recipes

    mealie-recipes/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

    13.8K stars
    1.6K forks
    13.8K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 329 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a REST API backend and a Vue-based reactive frontend for family-friendly use.
    • Enables automatic recipe import from URLs and manual entry, combined with meal planning and shopping list features in a single platform.
    • Use for managing and organizing personal or family recipes with easy import and editing capabilities.
    • Use for planning weekly meals and generating shopping lists organized by supermarket sections.
    • Use for integrating recipe and meal planning data into third-party applications via the provided REST API.

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    License

    AGPL 3.0

    Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.

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    • README: present

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    From the README

    Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager, meal planner and shopping list with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend 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. Mealie also provides an API for interactions from 3rd party applications.

    Excerpt from the mealie-recipes/mealie README on GitHub (AGPL-3.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

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    Forks

    1.6K+199

    Open issues

    138-79

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