ManageMeals
Manage recipes, import recipes by URL and organize them without any ads or unnecessary text.
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Still maintained? Yes: 5 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.7.3 (Sep 2026).
Comparisons in Recipe Management: Mealime alternatives.
At a glance
ManageMeals quick facts
- Health score
- 58/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 63
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.7.3, Sep 2026
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "This is the ManageMeals frontend, what you see at https://managemeals.com. It's a SvelteKit app."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
ManageMeals scores 58/100, #8 of 11 in Recipe Management: 5 commits in the last 90 days earn 5.8 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.7.3, 1 month ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 63 stars add 7.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 29.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 5.8 / 35
5 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.7.3 released 1 month ago
- Stars 7.2 / 20
63 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 5
- Last 90 days
- 24
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 11 tools in Recipe Management by health , between RecipeSage (#7) and What To Cook? (#9) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v1.7.3 · 1 month ago |
| Stars | 63 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | managemeals/manage-meals-web ↗ |
ManageMeals vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with ManageMeals (Recipe Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tandoor Recipes | 96 | 8.7k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| Bar Assistant | 92 | 1.1k | MIT | yesterday |
| Tamari | 89 | 145 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| CookCLI | 83 | 1.4k | MIT | 2 days ago |
| RecipeSage | 82 | 985 | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| ManageMeals (this tool) | 58 | 63 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
ManageMeals: common questions
Is ManageMeals still maintained?
ManageMeals had 5 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, v1.7.3, is from 1 month ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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