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
Mealie is an open-source recipe management project, with 13k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 1246 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: MIT. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-15 |
| Days since last commit | 2 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 226 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 1246 |
| Months with activity | 12 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-07-28 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | MIT |
| Category | Recipe Management |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Mealie is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
Actively maintained. Mealie recorded 1246 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 226 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-07-28. Committed within the last 45 days.
Mealie is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
11 open-source implementations, 5 of them actively maintained, led by Mealie at 13k stars. Saturation score 44/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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