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Mealie

Recipe manager & meal planner

provisional — pending verificationAGPL-3.0self-hostable

Value Index

4.5 / 5

Transparency5

Value density4

Privacy5

Efficiency4

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Why it's listed

Mealie is listed in household management because it competes on utility: recipe manager & meal planner. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed AGPL-3.0; pricing: free. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: AGPL-3.0
Pricing: Free
Funding model: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: Paprika
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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