# mealie-recipes/mealie

Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor

Repository: https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mealie
Homepage: https://docs.mealie.io
Language: Python
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: meal-plans, self-hosted, recipe-manager
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:31:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2096, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 8, "n_releases_24m": 56}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 13079, forks 1463 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:01.963674+00:00)

## What it is
Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a FastAPI REST backend and a Vue frontend. It imports recipes from URLs via a built-in scraper, supports meal planning, shopping lists, multi-user households, and offers an OpenAPI for third-party integrations.

## Use cases
- self-host my recipe collection
- import recipes from website urls automatically
- plan meals for the week
- generate shopping lists from recipes
- migrate recipes from Paprika or Nextcloud Cookbook
- share recipes with my family via multi-user groups
- integrate meal plans with third-party apps via API

## When to choose
- you want full ownership of your recipe data on your own server
- you need URL-based recipe scraping plus manual editing
- you want meal planning, shopping lists, and multi-user households in one app
- you need a REST API for custom integrations or webhooks

## When to avoid
- you want a hosted, zero-maintenance solution
- you only need a simple offline recipe notebook without a server
- you cannot run Docker or a Python backend

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: web-framework, api-framework, web-scraping, search-engine, self-hosted, webhook
- domain: self-hosted, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted, python, cross-platform
- tags: recipe-manager, meal-planner, shopping-list, fastapi, vue, recipe-scraper, household, automation, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- mealie-recipes/mealie (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:01.963674+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:13:33.131015+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:01.963674+00:00, sha 1d54cf40dcd7)
  - homepage: https://docs.mealie.io (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.765445+00:00, sha 51c014a89ba9)
  - site_page: https://docs.mealie.io/documentation/getting-started/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.774888+00:00, sha 3bfa375a3d9d)
  - site_page: https://demo.mealie.io/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.777009+00:00, sha 9bc8a5fb87d5)
  - site_page: https://docs.mealie.io/documentation/getting-started/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.778891+00:00, sha a8db7e537351)
  - site_page: https://docs.mealie.io/documentation/getting-started/updating (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.782011+00:00, sha cf94a75b600a)
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  - site_page: https://docs.mealie.io/documentation/getting-started/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:09:20.786191+00:00, sha 8b76409c09e9)
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- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.