Mealie Downloads & RevenueMealie - Recipe & Meal Planner · App Store
Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner is #3 in Food & Drink Paid in United States and charting in 6 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperRanduSoft SRL
CategoryFood & Drink
Price1.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (21)
Version1.2.1
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner update history & changes
Last change · 48 events since 25 Apr 2026Full timeline ↓📦Updated to version 1.2.1💰Price rise✏️Description updated💰Price rise✏️New iPad screenshots📈Hit #1📦Updated to version 1.2.0📈Hit #1🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: GFN Badge for Steam
Full timeline · 48 events
- 📦Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner updated to version 1.2.1- Sign in with an API token or custom headers
- Fill a whole week of meals in one go
- Pick which ingredients to add when sending a recipe to a shopping list
- One-way and Two-way sync with the Reminders app
- Hide the Shopping and Plans tabs for a simpler setup
- Show tags or categories on recipe list rows
- Import recipes with your server's AI, with optional translation
- See each step's ingredients right under it
- Redesigned iPad layout
- Bug fixes and improvements… more - 💰Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: price rise99.00 INR → 199.00 INR · IN
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· RU
- 💰Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: price rise99.00 RUB → 199.00 RUB · RU
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new iPad screenshots· RU
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · RU
- 💰Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: price rise0.99 EUR → 1.99 EUR · FR, IT, DE
- 💰Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: price rise0.99 USD → 1.99 USD · US
- 💰Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: price rise0.99 GBP → 1.99 GBP · GB
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: app got bigger13 MB → 14 MB (+10%)
- 💰Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: price rise1.99 AUD → 2.99 AUD · AU
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· 5 countries
- 💰Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: price rise2.99 AED → 7.99 AED · AE
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new iPad screenshots· 7 countries
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · 7 countries
- 📈Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · DE
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· FR
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· DE
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· GB
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new iPad screenshots· GB
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · GB
- 📦Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner updated to version 1.2.0- Sign in with an API token or custom headers
- Fill a whole week of meals in one go
- Pick which ingredients to add when sending a recipe to a shopping list
- Send shopping lists to the Reminders app
- Hide the Shopping and Plans tabs for a simpler setup
- Show tags or categories on recipe list rows
- Import recipes with your server's AI, with optional translation
- See each step's ingredients right under it
- Redesigned iPad layout
- Bug fixes and improvements… more - 📦Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: now updating weekly4 updates in 30 days, after a quiet two months
- 📦Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner updated to version 1.1.5- Added support for iPhone Duo
- Added support for German, French and Spanish. Please report any translation issue from the Settings tab
- Added Markdown support in recipe instruction steps
- Generate recipes with on-device AI using Apple Intelligence
- Import recipes into Mealie by sharing any recipe page from Safari, other browsers, or any app with a share sheet
- Shopping lists can now be sorted alphabetically or by category
- Bug fixes and improvements… more - 📈Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · IT
- 📦Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner updated to version 1.1.4- Added support for iPhone Duo
- Added support for German, French and Spanish. Please report any translation issue from the Settings tab
- Added Markdown support in recipe instruction steps
- Generate recipes with on-device AI using Apple Intelligence
- Import recipes into Mealie by sharing any recipe page from Safari, other browsers, or any app with a share sheet
- Bug fixes and improvements… more - ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· AE
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new iPad screenshots· AE
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · AE
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· IN
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new iPad screenshots· IN
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · IN
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· 5 countries
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new iPad screenshots· 7 countries
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · 7 countries
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: description updated· GB
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new iPad screenshots· GB
- ✏️Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: new screenshots7 screenshots (was 7) · GB
- 📦Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner updated to version 1.1.3- Added support for iPhone Duo
- Added support for German, French and Spanish. Please report any translation issue from the Settings tab
- Added Markdown support in recipe instruction steps
- Generate recipes with on-device AI using Apple Intelligence
- Import recipes into Mealie by sharing any recipe page from Safari, other browsers, or any app with a share sheet
- Bug fixes and improvements… more - 📈Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · CA
- 📈Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Food & Drink · AU · Top Paid · Food & Drink · GB
- 📈Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · FR
- 🆕Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner first spotted by AppInsider#3 in Top Paid · Food & Drink · Italy
- 📦Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner version 1.1.2No release notes
- 🆕Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: its developer released another app: GFN Badge for Steam
- 🆕Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: its developer released another app: Custom New Tab URL for Safari
- 🆕Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner: its developer released another app: Force Allow Right-Click onPage
- 🆕Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
21 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#3
Food & Drink PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
1.2
App Store, 4-week average
Measured
Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A companion iOS app for self-hosted Mealie servers that enables users to browse recipes, plan meals, and sync shopping lists across their household while keeping data on their own infrastructure. The app has achieved strong traction in major Western markets, ranking #4 in the US and top-10 in the UK, Germany, Australia, and France within the Paid Food & Drink category shortly after its April 2026 release.
Similar apps: Paprika Recipe Manager, Cookpad, Yummly
Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner on the App Store
App details
App ID
6762080217
Publisher
RanduSoft SRL
On the store since
Apr 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 26.0+
iPhone 11 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
4
EN FR DE ES
Size
14 MB
Also listed in
Lifestyle
Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Business model: Ad-led
How Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Ads · 12 ad networks
Ads
/mo
of revenue
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | Food & DrinkPaid | #3 |
 Germany | Food & DrinkPaid | #1 |
 United Kingdom | Food & DrinkPaid | #13 |
 Australia | Food & DrinkPaid | #14 |
 France | Food & DrinkPaid | #60 |
 India | Food & DrinkPaid | #126 |
Apps near Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner on the chart
Food & Drink Paid, around #3.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
21 ratings
Measured
Ratings
21
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
1.2
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
60/100
faster than 66% of Food & Drink apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner
From the 5 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users generally praise the app's usability, clean design, and excellent developer support for this self-hosted companion tool. However, some users report critical connection errors with local instances that render the app unusable.
Mostly positive (80% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Ease of use: “It is user friendly and has several nice QoL features”
- Features & content: “Great companion app with some nice QOL features”
About Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner
Mealie on your iPhone and iPad. A friendly way to cook from the Mealie server you already run at home. Look up a recipe, plan the week, and shop with the same lists as the rest of your household. Your recipes stay on your server.
RECIPES
Find what you feel like cooking. Search the whole library, sort by name, rating, or when you last made it, and narrow it down with tags, categories, tools, or a cookbook. The list can show each recipe's tags or categories too.
Open a recipe and everything you need is on one screen. Ingredients, step-by-step instructions, nutrition, notes, and comments from your household. Scale the servings for tonight, check ingredients off as you go, and tap a time in a step to start a timer. Each step shows the ingredients it uses, scaled to your servings. Photos and formatting in the instructions stay right where you put them.
Adding a recipe is easy. Write one yourself, paste a link, or share a page from Safari or another app and Mealie imports it for you. If your server has AI set up, it can read the page and translate the recipe as it comes in. On devices with Apple Intelligence you can describe a meal, draft the recipe on your device, and save it to your server when it looks right.
Keep the library tidy with tags, categories, and cookbooks. Save favorites for the meals you come back to, and mark a recipe as made so you can look back at when you cooked it.
MEAL PLANNING
See the week at a glance. Add a recipe or a short note to breakfast, lunch, dinner, or anything in between. Set a few rules for the kinds of meals you like, then ask your server to pick one when you would rather not decide, or fill every empty slot of the week in one go. Today's plan can live on your Home Screen, so you know what is for dinner without opening the app.
SHOPPING LISTS
Turn this week's meals into a list and take it to the store. Check items off as they go in the cart. They stay grouped by the labels you already use on your server, in the aisle order you are used to. Add a whole recipe when you need a few more things, and untick what you already have at home. The list is saved for everyone in the household, and you can send it to Reminders too. The list you are shopping from can sit on your Home Screen as well.
YOUR SERVER
Sign in to the Mealie server you host yourself, with your password or an API token, so servers that use single sign-on (OIDC) work too. Behind Cloudflare Access or another proxy? Add custom headers when you sign in. Keep more than one server if you cook in more than one kitchen. Servers on your home network work, including ones with a self-signed certificate. Each server keeps its own recipes, plans, and lists.
ALSO INCLUDED
- Home Screen widgets for today's meals, a recipe from today's plan, and the shopping list you are using
- Cookbooks, plus organizers for tags, categories, tools, foods, and units
- Comments on recipes, and a history of when you made them
- Hide the Shopping and Plans tabs if you only need recipes
RECIPES
Find what you feel like cooking. Search the whole library, sort by name, rating, or when you last made it, and narrow it down with tags, categories, tools, or a cookbook. The list can show each recipe's tags or categories too.
Open a recipe and everything you need is on one screen. Ingredients, step-by-step instructions, nutrition, notes, and comments from your household. Scale the servings for tonight, check ingredients off as you go, and tap a time in a step to start a timer. Each step shows the ingredients it uses, scaled to your servings. Photos and formatting in the instructions stay right where you put them.
Adding a recipe is easy. Write one yourself, paste a link, or share a page from Safari or another app and Mealie imports it for you. If your server has AI set up, it can read the page and translate the recipe as it comes in. On devices with Apple Intelligence you can describe a meal, draft the recipe on your device, and save it to your server when it looks right.
Keep the library tidy with tags, categories, and cookbooks. Save favorites for the meals you come back to, and mark a recipe as made so you can look back at when you cooked it.
MEAL PLANNING
See the week at a glance. Add a recipe or a short note to breakfast, lunch, dinner, or anything in between. Set a few rules for the kinds of meals you like, then ask your server to pick one when you would rather not decide, or fill every empty slot of the week in one go. Today's plan can live on your Home Screen, so you know what is for dinner without opening the app.
SHOPPING LISTS
Turn this week's meals into a list and take it to the store. Check items off as they go in the cart. They stay grouped by the labels you already use on your server, in the aisle order you are used to. Add a whole recipe when you need a few more things, and untick what you already have at home. The list is saved for everyone in the household, and you can send it to Reminders too. The list you are shopping from can sit on your Home Screen as well.
YOUR SERVER
Sign in to the Mealie server you host yourself, with your password or an API token, so servers that use single sign-on (OIDC) work too. Behind Cloudflare Access or another proxy? Add custom headers when you sign in. Keep more than one server if you cook in more than one kitchen. Servers on your home network work, including ones with a self-signed certificate. Each server keeps its own recipes, plans, and lists.
ALSO INCLUDED
- Home Screen widgets for today's meals, a recipe from today's plan, and the shopping list you are using
- Cookbooks, plus organizers for tags, categories, tools, foods, and units
- Comments on recipes, and a history of when you made them
- Hide the Shopping and Plans tabs if you only need recipes
Latest updates
1.2.1
- Sign in with an API token or custom headers
- Fill a whole week of meals in one go
- Pick which ingredients to add when sending a recipe to a shopping list
- One-way and Two-way sync with the Reminders app
- Hide the Shopping and Plans tabs for a simpler setup
- Show tags or categories on recipe list rows
- Import recipes with your server's AI, with optional translation
- See each step's ingredients right under it
- Redesigned iPad layout
- Bug fixes and improvements
1.2.0
- Sign in with an API token or custom headers
- Fill a whole week of meals in one go
- Pick which ingredients to add when sending a recipe to a shopping list
- Send shopping lists to the Reminders app
- Hide the Shopping and Plans tabs for a simpler setup
- Show tags or categories on recipe list rows
- Import recipes with your server's AI, with optional translation
- See each step's ingredients right under it
- Redesigned iPad layout
- Bug fixes and improvements
1.1.5
- Added support for iPhone Duo
- Added support for German, French and Spanish. Please report any translation issue from the Settings tab
- Added Markdown support in recipe instruction steps
- Generate recipes with on-device AI using Apple Intelligence
- Import recipes into Mealie by sharing any recipe page from Safari, other browsers, or any app with a share sheet
- Shopping lists can now be sorted alphabetically or by category
- Bug fixes and improvements
Store changes
What Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Price rise
99.00 INR → 199.00 INR
Description updated 
Price rise
99.00 RUB → 199.00 RUB
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