A companion for your self-hosted Mealie server

Your Mealie.
A better way to cook.

Mealie Connect is a beautiful companion for your self-hosted Mealie server. Discover recipes, plan your meals, build shopping lists, and let Dinner Roulette decide what you're cooking tonight.

Android version 0.7.5
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Mealie Connect showing recently synced recipes from a self-hosted Mealie server

From “what should I cook?” to dinner on the table.

Discover

Browse, search, or roll the dice with Dinner Roulette.

Plan

Drop recipes onto a daily, weekly, or monthly meal plan.

Shop

Send ingredients straight to a shopping list.

Cook

Follow along step-by-step with Cook Mode.

A Mealie Connect original

Don't know what to cook?
Let Dinner Roulette choose.

Roll completely at random, or narrow it down by category, prep time, tags, and the ingredients you already have on hand.

Category
Prep / cook time
Tags
Ingredients on hand
Dinner Roulette

Chicken Parmesan

Italian · Dinner · 25 min

What do you have?

Chicken
Rice
Broccoli
Garlic
Chicken Stir FryPerfect match
Chicken Fried RiceMissing 1 ingredient

Cook with what you already have.

Tell Mealie Connect what's in your fridge, pantry, or freezer and find recipes that match — search by ANY of your ingredients, or require ALL of them.

Your recipes, finally easy to explore.

Search and filter your Mealie recipe collection without digging through endless lists.

CategoriesTagsPrep timeCook timeIngredients
Recipes
Mealie Connect recipe library with search, category filters, and recipe cards

Turn recipes into a plan.

Assign breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a quick side to any date, straight from a recipe or a title you type in — no more re-deciding what's for dinner every night.

Meal Plan · This Week
Mealie Connect meal planning screen for adding meals to a plan

From recipe to shopping list in seconds.

Everything you need to get from a recipe you love to a cart full of the right ingredients.

Recipe
Add ingredients
Choose shopping list
Shop
Multiple shopping lists
Add recipe ingredients in one tap
Check items off as you shop
Edit quantities and create new lists
Offline access with sync

Put the phone down. Start cooking.

A distraction-free, step-by-step cooking experience that lets you move through a recipe one instruction at a time — large text, a clear progress indicator, and ingredients always within reach.

Cook Mode
Mealie Connect Cook Mode showing a recipe step with previous and next controls

Found a recipe you love?

Paste a recipe URL and Mealie Connect sends it to your Mealie server — then fine-tune the title, categories, tags, and servings before saving.

https://example.com/my-favorite-recipe

Recipe imported

Title

Chicken Parmesan

DinnerItalianQuickFamily
Servings4
Offline
Recipes available
Shopping list available
Meal plan available
2 changes waiting to sync

Your recipes don't disappear when the Wi-Fi does.

Mealie Connect is designed for offline use. Previously synchronized recipes, meal plans, and shopping lists remain available, and changes sync automatically once your Mealie server is reachable again.

Your recipes. Your server. Your data.

Mealie Connect connects directly to your self-hosted Mealie server. Your recipe collection stays where you put it, under your control.

Connects to your self-hosted Mealie server
Direct connection — no middleman
Supports multiple Mealie accounts
No Mealie Connect cloud account required

One server. Multiple cooks.

Switch between Mealie accounts without changing servers — each account keeps its own recipes, plans, and lists.

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Take Mealie Connect with you.

Mobile-first and designed for the kitchen and the grocery store — install it once and it feels like a native app.

Installable PWA

Add to your home screen

Android app

Version 0.7.5 · Download the sideload APK

Desktop

Works great in any browser

Make it yours.

Choose the look that fits your kitchen, your phone, or your mood.

Purple
Blue
Red
Green
Dark
Mealie Default
Everything you need

One companion, every part of cooking.

Dinner Roulette

Let the app decide what you’re cooking.

Ingredient Finder

Find recipes using what you already have.

Recipe Search

Search and filter your entire collection.

Meal Planning

Plan breakfast, snacks, lunch, and dinner.

Shopping Lists

Turn recipes into shopping lists instantly.

Recipe Import

Save recipes from the web directly to Mealie.

Cook Mode

Follow recipes one step at a time.

Offline First

Keep cooking even when your server isn’t reachable.

Multiple Accounts

Switch between Mealie users.

PWA + Android

Take your recipes wherever you go.

Built for Mealie

Mealie Connect is designed to work with self-hosted Mealie servers. Tested with Mealie v3.22.0.

Visit the official Mealie project

Built in the open.

Mealie Connect is developed openly on GitHub.

View Mealie Connect on GitHub

Ready to decide what's for dinner?

Connect Mealie. Roll the dice. Make something great.

Android v0.7.5