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Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager — import recipes from any URL, plan meals, generate shopping lists, scale recipes, track meal history. Modern Vue.js UI, FastAPI backend. Designed for families who actually cook, with import quality that handles thousands of recipe sites.
Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager — import recipes from any URL, plan meals, generate shopping lists, scale recipes, track meal history. Modern Vue.js UI, FastAPI backend. Designed for families who actually cook, with import quality that handles thousands of recipe sites.
For home cooks tired of paywalled recipe sites and ad-laden food blogs, Mealie is the ad-free personal cookbook.
Concrete scenarios where teams pick Mealie over the SaaS alternative.
save recipes from any site
weekly meal schedules with shopping lists
auto-generated from planned meals
adjust servings, ingredient quantities scale
multi-user with separate / shared cookbooks
If your team profile matches one of these, Mealie is a strong fit out of the box.
building personal recipe library
organizing weekly menus
rejecting ad-tracked recipe sites
running family-facing infrastructure
with growing recipe collections
When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Mealie consistently lands above the alternatives.
The stack you'll plug Mealie into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.
ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:v3.0 (release-tagged)Operational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.
postgres:17-alpine · ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:v3.17.0