# Mealie

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[**Mealie**](https://mealie.io/) is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and Mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor. Mealie also provides an API for interactions from 3rd party applications.

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#### Key Features

- 🔍 Fuzzy search
- 🏷️ Tag recipes with categories or tags to flexible sorting
- 🕸 Import recipes from around the web by URL
- 📱 Progressive Web App
- 📆 Create Meal Plans
- 🛒 Generate shopping lists
- 🐳 Easy setup with Docker
- 🎨 Customize your interface with color themes layouts
- 💾 Export all your data in any format with Jinja2 Templates, with easy data restoration from the user interface.
- 🌍 localized in many languages
- ➕ Plus tons more! 
    - Flexible API 
        - Custom key/value pairs for recipes
        - Webhook support
        - Interactive API Documentation
    - Raw JSON Recipe Editor
    - Migration from other platforms 
        - Chowdown
        - Nextcloud Cookbook
    - Random meal plan generation

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