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 family using the app.
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Still maintained? Yes: 602 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.29.0 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Mealime.
At a glance
Mealie quick facts
- Health score
- 87/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 13,731
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.29.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Mealie
Full rankings: Mealime alternatives
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Mealie scores 87/100, #5 of 11 in Recipe Management: 602 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.29.0, 13 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 13,731 stars add 16.6 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
602 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v3.29.0 released 13 days ago
- Stars 16.6 / 20
14k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 602
- Last 90 days
- 1,565
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #5 of 11 tools in Recipe Management by health , between Vanilla Cookbook (#4) and CookCLI (#6) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | v3.29.0 · 13 days ago |
| Stars | 13,731 |
| Open issues | 70 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | mealie-recipes/mealie ↗ |
Mealie vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Mealie (Recipe Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tandoor Recipes | 96 | 8.7k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| Tamari | 89 | 145 | GPL-3.0 | 1 month ago |
| Mealie (this tool) | 87 | 14k | MIT | today |
| RecipeSage | 82 | 985 | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Recipya | 43 | 412 | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Fork Recipes | 38 | 69 | BSD-3-Clause | 2 months ago |
Mealie: common questions
What does Mealie replace?
Repoly lists Mealie as an open-source alternative to Mealime. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Mealie stands against the others.
Is Mealie still maintained?
Mealie had 602 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v3.29.0, is from 13 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.