Mealie

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a clean, modern interface. It provides a REST API backend and a reactive Vue frontend designed for the whole family.

What You Can Do After Deployment

• Import recipes from any URL with automatic metadata extraction
• Organize recipes with tags, categories, and custom sorting
• Plan meals with a drag-and-drop weekly meal planner
• Generate shopping lists from your meal plans or individual recipes
• Share recipes with family members via multi-user support
• Access via mobile with a responsive PWA interface
• Integrate with Home Assistant for smart home recipe workflows

First Login

The first user to register becomes the admin. After creating your admin account, you can disable public signup via the ALLOW_SIGNUP environment variable.

Environment Variables

Variable	Default	Description
DB_ENGINE	sqlite	Database engine (sqlite recommended for single-instance)
ALLOW_SIGNUP	false	Allow new user registration
TZ	UTC	Timezone for scheduled tasks

License

Mealie is licensed under AGPL-3.0.