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Last Updated: 07-16-2026 06:36 AM (UTC)

Mealie

A recipe manager that feels like a consumer product rather than a homelab experiment: Mealie pairs a FastAPI backend with a reactive Vue frontend for the most polished self-hosted meal planning around. The killer feature is the recipe scraper: paste a URL from hundreds of supported cooking sites and Mealie imports the ingredients, steps, times, and photos automatically. Structured HTML/JSON paste, a Markdown-capable manual editor, and imports from other recipe apps (like Tandoor) cover everything else. Meal planning uses a drag-and-drop calendar with breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack slots, plus rule-based random recipe insertion - constrain the pool by tags or categories per meal type or weekday. Shopping lists link recipes so all ingredients land in one place, organized into supermarket sections, and update in real time for everyone in the household. The multi-tenancy model is genuinely thought through: isolated Groups can host multiple tenants, and Households within a group share recipes and organizers while keeping meal plans and shopping lists private. Cookbooks group recipes by your own criteria, a cooking mode stays readable on a phone propped against the backsplash, and 35+ language translations ship built-in. A fully documented REST API and scheduled webhooks (e.g., today's meal plan to Home Assistant) make it automatable, with SQLite or PostgreSQL storage and automatic backups.

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Benefits

  • One Paste, Full Recipe
  • The scraper imports ingredients, steps, and photos from hundreds of cooking sites - no retyping.
  • Built for Actual Households
  • Multiple users, permission levels, shared meal plans, and shopping lists that update live for everyone.
  • Meal Planning You'll Keep Using
  • Drag-and-drop calendar plus rule-based random suggestions filtered by tags, meal type, or weekday.
  • Recipes Stay Yours
  • No app subscription, no recipe site shutting down - your collection lives in your database with automatic backups.

Features

  • URL Recipe Scraper
  • Import from hundreds of sites; structured HTML/JSON paste and Tandoor migration also supported.
  • Calendar Meal Planner
  • Week-at-a-glance planning with meal-type slots and configurable random-recipe rules.
  • Smart Shopping Lists
  • Link recipes to pull all ingredients, organized by supermarket sections, shared in real time.
  • Groups and Households
  • Isolated multi-tenant groups; households share recipes while keeping plans and lists private.
  • Cookbooks and Cooking Mode
  • Custom recipe groupings and a phone-readable step-by-step cooking view.
  • REST API and Webhooks
  • Documented API over recipes, plans, and lists; scheduled webhooks push meal plans to services like Home Assistant.