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.

Open Mealie Connect Download Android APK View on GitHub

Android version 0.8.0

The Mealie Connect home page showing tonight's featured recipe
Cook Mode on a phone with a running timer

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

  1. 01

    Discover

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

  2. 02

    Plan

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

  3. 03

    Shop

    Send ingredients straight to a shopping list.

  4. 04

    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 result: Enchiladas Verdes with Cook Now, Add to Meal Plan and Add to Shopping buttons

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.

What do you have?

  • Chicken
  • Rice
  • Broccoli
  • Garlic
Find Recipes
  • Chicken Stir FryPerfect match
  • Chicken Fried RiceMissing 1 ingredient

Your recipes, finally easy to explore.

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

  • Categories
  • Tags
  • Prep time
  • Cook time
  • Ingredients
Recipes
A grid of recipe cards with food photos

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.

The weekly meal plan with breakfast, lunch and dinner slots for each day

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.

  1. Recipe
  2. Add ingredients
  3. Choose shopping list
  4. 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

Cook Mode

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.

A Cook Mode step in large type with a one-tap timer
A recipe page on a phone

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
Import Recipe
Recipe imported

Title

Chicken Parmesan

  • Dinner
  • Italian
  • Quick
  • Family
Servings4
Save to Mealie

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.

Offline

  • Recipes available
  • Shopping list available
  • Meal plan available

2 changes waiting to sync

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.

  • J John
  • S Sarah
  • F Family

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 0.8.0 · 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.

  • Light
  • Dark
  • System
  • Plum
  • Blue
  • Terracotta
  • Sage
Mealie Connect home screen in light mode
Mealie Connect home screen in dark mode

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.

Open Mealie Connect Download Android APK View on GitHub

Android v0.8.0