Your recipes, your meal plan, your way.
Mealie is your all-in-one kitchen companion. Save recipes from any website with one click, plan your weekly meals on a beautiful calendar, and automatically generate organized shopping lists. No more scattered bookmarks or lost recipe cards — everything lives in one place.
What makes Mealie (sqlite version) worth launching.
Paste a recipe URL and Mealie pulls in the ingredients, steps, photos, and nutritional info automatically.
Plan breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a simple calendar view. Let Mealie suggest random recipes or pick your own.
Add meals to your plan and Mealie builds a grocery list organized by section — produce, dairy, pantry, and more.
Snap a photo of a recipe card or paste a YouTube link — Mealie can read the text and turn it into a full recipe.
Use categories, tags, and cookbooks to sort your collection. Find any recipe in seconds with powerful search and filters.
Add multiple users and create groups so everyone in the household can see recipes, plan meals, and manage shopping.
If you fit one of these, Mealie (sqlite version) is probably built for you.
Practical scenarios where Mealie (sqlite version) makes a real difference.
Save recipes from any cooking blog or website into one organized collection — no more scrolling through pages of ads to find what you need.
Set up your meal plan for the week on Sunday. Pick recipes from your collection, let Mealie suggest them randomly, or enter your own.
When you add meals to your plan, Mealie automatically creates a shopping list. Check off items as you shop and nothing gets left behind.
Type up grandma's famous lasagna, snap a photo of a handwritten card, or import from another app — your family recipes stay safe and searchable.
Mealie is a recipe manager, meal planner, and shopping list tool designed for real households. Paste a link from any recipe website and Mealie grabs the title, ingredients, steps, and photo automatically. You can also type in your own family recipes, upload a photo of a handwritten recipe card, or even import from a cooking video on YouTube. Once your recipes are in, plan your week on the built-in meal calendar — just drag and drop. Mealie then creates a shopping list with everything you need, organized by category so you can breeze through the grocery store. It works for one person or the whole family, with support for multiple users who can share recipes and meal plans.
Mealie brings order to your kitchen. Instead of juggling recipe bookmarks, a separate meal planner, and a notes app for your shopping list, everything connects in one seamless experience. Import recipes from hundreds of websites, organize them with tags and categories, plan your meals, and generate a shopping list — all in a few clicks. Families love it because everyone can chip in, and the interface is simple enough for anyone to use. With support for over 35 languages and a passionate community behind it, Mealie grows with you.
No per-seat pricing
Add your whole team for one flat fee.
Your data stays yours
Nothing passes through a third-party cloud.
Use your own domain
Run it on yourdomain.com with free SSL.
No terminal. No config. No docs.
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Deploy Mealie (sqlite version) and as many other apps as you want — no per-app charges, ever.
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What others charge for just the empty server.
Server costs only. Prices checked June 2026.
4 vCPU cores, 8 GB RAM, 150 GB storage
A solid place to start
| Provider | Their price | You save |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | $48/mo | $29 (60%) |
| Vultr | $40/mo | $21 (53%) |
| Linode | $48/mo | $29 (60%) |
| AWS Lightsail | $84/mo | $65 (77%) |
| Google Cloud E2 | $103.45/mo | $84.45 (82%) |
8 vCPU cores, 24 GB RAM, 400 GB storage
The sweet spot for most people
| Provider | Their price | You save |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | $144/mo | $95 (66%) |
| Vultr | $144/mo | $95 (66%) |
| Linode | $192/mo | $143 (74%) |
| AWS Lightsail | $164/mo | $115 (70%) |
| Google Cloud E2 | $231.17/mo | $182.17 (79%) |
16 vCPU cores, 64 GB RAM, 600 GB storage
For power users
| Provider | Their price | You save |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | $384/mo | $285 (74%) |
| Vultr | $320/mo | $221 (69%) |
| Linode | $384/mo | $285 (74%) |
| AWS Lightsail | $384/mo | $285 (74%) |
| Google Cloud E2 | $474.53/mo | $375.53 (79%) |
Prices checked June 2026. Excludes taxes, credits, backups, bandwidth.
Everything you need to know about launching Mealie (sqlite version) on OpenZapps.
Mealie is a recipe manager that lets you save recipes from any website, plan your weekly meals, and create shopping lists — all in one place.
Not at all! OpenZapps handles everything behind the scenes. Once you launch Mealie, just open it in your browser and start adding recipes.
You pay OpenZapps a flat monthly fee to run Mealie (and any other apps you choose). There are no extra charges or surprise costs.
Yes. Your recipes are stored in your own private space — only you and the people you invite can see them.
Absolutely. Through OpenZapps, you can connect your own domain name so Mealie lives at a web address you choose.
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