mealie-recipes/mealie

What it does

Mealie is a self-hosted household recipe manager, meal planner, and shopping list. Its backend exposes a REST API while the frontend is a Vue application, so the same instance can serve a family through a browser and support third-party integrations through the API.

Recipes can be entered manually in the UI or created by pasting a recipe URL, which triggers an automatic import of the relevant data. Recipes can then be grouped into cookbooks, planned into the coming week, and turned into an organized shopping list. The interface is translated into more than 35 languages.

Try it or deploy it

A hosted demo is available for evaluating the interface before installing anything: Mealie demo. For a real deployment, the project publishes container images on the GitHub Container Registry and Docker deployment is listed as a key feature. The official documentation is the entry point for installation, configuration, importing, and API usage; it should be followed for the deployment method you choose, together with the matching release.

Constraints and operations

Mealie is intended to be self-hosted, so running it means operating a server or container and keeping it available to household members. The data lives in your instance, and account, backup, and upgrade decisions remain with the operator. The project is licensed under AGPL-3.0. Recipe import depends on the source page providing usable recipe data; when automatic extraction fails, the manual UI editor is the fallback.

Contributing and community

The README points developers to the code contribution guide and notes that VSCode Dev Containers are used for contributor setup. Translations are managed through Crowdin, where non-coders can vote on or add translations.

HotRepo's take

Mealie appeared in HotRepo's Python daily list on 2026-11-02 at position 12, with 17 stars gained that day and a total of 13,775 stars and 1,626 forks. This is a single recorded observation rather than a trend. The repository is a complete self-hosted product with a documented demo, container distribution, and an active contribution path, which makes the ranking consistent with a mature household utility rather than a launch spike. Readers should treat the daily figure as one snapshot and check the project's own documentation for deployment requirements.