Mealie
Mealie is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Recipe Management category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Python. It is a self-hosted alternative to MyFitnessPal. It has 13,688 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 13,688
- Forks
- 1,606
- Open issues
- 69
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,562
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.29.0Oct 17, 2026
- Created
- Dec 7, 2020
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 1,562 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,562 |
| Latest release | v3.29.0 (Oct 17, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 107 |
| Open issues | 69 |
| Open pull requests | 53 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 7, 2020 |
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About Mealie
Material design inspired recipe manager with category and tag management, shopping-lists, meal-planner, and site customizations. Mealie is focused on simple user interactions to keep the whole….
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie.
Topics
- meal-plans
- self-hosted
- recipe-manager
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Is Mealie free and open source?
Yes. Mealie is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Mealie with Docker?
Mealie does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Python), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Mealie?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Mealie include Tandoor Recipes, CookCLI and Bar Assistant. Mealie itself is a self-hosted alternative to MyFitnessPal.
Is Mealie actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Mealie was on Oct 26, 2026 with 1,562 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.29.0, published Oct 17, 2026. It had 69 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.