mealie
by mealie-recipes
Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner that allows users to add recipes by importing URLs or manually entering data, and provides a meal planner and shopping list for family use.
Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.
- Stars
- 13.7k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Python
- Age
- 2149 days
What you can do with it
- Add recipes by importing URLs or manually entering data
- Plan meals for the week
- Create a shopping list based on selected recipes
Could replace
- Mealime
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Save time managing recipes and meal planning for a small business
- Provide a central place for recipe storage and meal planning for a family business
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence. Running it as an online service also counts, so a hosted version must offer its source.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Setup using Docker or manually
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
