Mealie

App in the BluixApps catalog

What it is

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.

What it's for

  • Personal recipe collection — save recipes from any site
  • Meal planning — weekly meal schedules with shopping lists
  • Shopping list generation — auto-generated from planned meals
  • Recipe scaling — adjust servings, ingredient quantities scale
  • Family sharing — multi-user with separate / shared cookbooks

Who it's for

  • Home cooks building personal recipe library
  • Meal planners organizing weekly menus
  • Privacy-conscious families rejecting ad-tracked recipe sites
  • Self-hosters running family-facing infrastructure
  • Cooking enthusiasts with growing recipe collections

Why teams pick Mealie over alternatives

  • AGPLv3 — fully open
  • Recipe import quality — handles thousands of recipe sites
  • Shopping list generation — proper aggregation from meal plans
  • Mobile-friendly — responsive UI works on phone
  • Multi-user — family sharing built-in
  • Active development — frequent releases

Integrations

  • Recipe import — Schema.org Recipe scraping from 10k+ sites
  • Shopping list export — share lists via Bring!, copy to clipboard
  • Authentication — local + OAuth (Google, GitHub, custom OIDC)
  • API — REST API for programmatic access
  • Image storage — local filesystem
  • Notifications — meal-planning reminders
  • Bulk operations — JSON/Markdown import/export

Notable users & community

  • 8k+ GitHub stars
  • Featured on r/selfhosted as canonical recipe manager
  • Active Discord community
  • Frequent releases with public roadmap
  • Strong adoption in family self-hosting setups

Tips & operations

  • Bulk import collection — import existing recipes via JSON / URL list
  • Persistent storage — recipes + images live here; mount volume
  • Backup is your cookbook — these are family recipes; backup carefully
  • Image storage planning — recipe photos accumulate; size disk accordingly
  • Multi-cookbook organization — separate cookbooks per cuisine / household
  • Mobile bookmark for quick access — install as PWA

What we ship in BluixApps

  • Docker compose: Mealie + Postgres
  • Pinned ghcr.io/mealie-recipes/mealie:v3.0 (release-tagged)
  • HTTPS via Let's Encrypt
  • Admin user via env config
  • Persistent volumes for Postgres + recipe data
  • Image storage local; S3-compatible documented
  • Backup hook covers Postgres + image storage
Read this app's deep dive on bluix.app ↗

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TierTenantsCatalogSupportWhite-labelMonthly
Stacks119 curated stacksStandard$19/moDetailDeploy
Starter10Full catalogStandard+$15–25/mo$49/moDetailDeploy
Pro25Full catalogPriority bugfix+$15–25/mo$149/moDetailDeploy
Growth100Full catalogPriority bugfix+$15–25/mo$349/moDetailDeploy
Scale500Full catalog7-day window+$15–25/mo$799/moDetailDeploy
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