What is Mealie?

Mealie is an intuitive and easy-to-use recipe management app designed for the modern household. It's the best recipe management experience on the web, providing an easy interface to manage your growing collection of recipes. Import recipes from thousands of websites using the built-in scraper. Mealie uses machine learning technology to process and parse recipe ingredients, enabling advanced features like recipe scaling and shopping list consolidation. Beautiful recipe feeds show what's new, and the powerful editor makes creating and modifying recipes effortless. Being entirely self-hosted means no reliance on cloud services.

Key Features

✓Recipe importing from websites
✓ML-powered ingredient parsing
✓Recipe scaling
✓Meal planning
✓Shopping list generation
✓Multi-user support
✓Group sharing for families
✓Webhooks for notifications
✓Open REST API
✓Automatic backups
✓Beautiful recipe feeds
✓Self-hosted only

🔒 Privacy & Data Protection

Mealie is 100% self-hosted – there's no cloud service involved. All your recipes, meal plans, and family data stay on your own server. Deploy on European infrastructure for complete data control. The open-source codebase is auditable. For families wanting Google Recipes or Paprika-like features while keeping cooking data private, Mealie delivers the experience without sending data to third parties.

Best For

Families organizing recipesHome cooks planning mealsSelf-hosters building home serversUsers wanting recipe import from webHouseholds needing shopping listsPrivacy-conscious home management

💰 Pricing

Mealie is completely free and open-source. There are no paid tiers. Self-host on your own infrastructure at no cost beyond server expenses.

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