Mealie Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Mealie hosting and give your household one private place for recipes, meal plans and shopping lists. xCloud runs the official Mealie 3.22.0 image pinned by digest, sets up your administrator account, mounts a persistent data volume and publishes the app over HTTPS on your own domain. Public sign-up is off, so only the people you add can get in.

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What is Mealie?

Mealie is a self-hosted recipe manager, meal planner and shopping list. Upstream describes it as built for a pleasant experience for the whole family. You add a recipe by giving Mealie its URL, and it imports the relevant data. You can also type in a family recipe with the editor. From there you plan the week's meals, build a shopping list and group recipes into cookbooks. The code is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

On xCloud it is Mealie 3.22.0 from the official image, pinned by digest, running as one container with a SQLite database. Upstream recommends that setup for 1 to 20 users. The database, recipes, uploaded images and application secrets all live on one volume, mealie_data. Public sign-up is disabled, and email is not configured, so email invitations and email password recovery need SMTP settings you add yourself.

About this app

Version xCloud installs: 3.22.0
Licence: AGPL-3.0
Source code: github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie
Documentation: docs.mealie.io

Mealie is a third-party project. xCloud is not affiliated with or endorsed by its maintainers. Names and logos belong to their owners.

From Sign-Up to a Live Recipe Library In Just 3 Easy Steps

Running Mealie yourself means a container, a data volume, a first-run account to replace, a domain and a certificate before the first recipe. Here a short form covers all of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Mealie from the OneClick catalog. The form asks for an administrator email, a password and your timezone. Leave the password blank and one is generated for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start the official Mealie 3.22.0 image, pinned by digest, mount the mealie_data volume, replace Mealie's default first-run account with your administrator email and password, and publish the app over HTTPS.
Step 03
Import Your First Recipe
Open your Mealie URL and sign in with the email and password shown in xCloud. Paste a public recipe URL to import it, add it to a meal plan, then put an ingredient on a shopping list.

Everything Mealie Does, On Your Own Server

Mealie turns scattered bookmarks into a recipe library, a plan for the week and the shopping list that follows from both.

Import From A URL
Give Mealie a recipe's URL and it imports the relevant data for you. Family recipes go in by hand through the built-in editor.
Meal Planner
Plan what you will cook for the next week, so dinner is decided once instead of every evening.
Shopping Lists
Put the ingredients you need on a shopping list, organised into the sections of your local supermarket.
Cookbooks
Group recipes into cookbooks based on your own criteria, such as weeknight dinners or holiday baking.
Households
Add the people you cook with so the library, the plan and the list are shared. Public sign-up stays off.
An API For Other Tools
Mealie has a REST API, so third-party applications can work with your recipes. Its interface is translated into more than 35 languages.

Everything You Need To Run Your Recipe Library 24/7

Managed hosting for Mealie, so the server under your recipes is looked after while you cook.

Mealie 3.22.0 from the official image
Image pinned by digest
Administrator account set at install
Free SSL certificate
Recipes and images on a persistent volume
Households for shared cooking
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Mealie

Keep recipes out of a bookmark folder
Import recipes from the sites you cook from into one library on your own server.
Plan the week once
Put recipes on the meal planner so the household knows what is for dinner each day.
Shop from the plan
Add the ingredients you need to a shopping list sorted by supermarket section.
Share one kitchen with your household
Give the people you cook with the same recipes, plan and list instead of one person's phone.
Save family recipes
Type handed-down recipes into the editor and group them into a cookbook of their own.

Mealie vs Alternatives

Tandoor Recipes: Tandoor Recipes has its own OneClick page and also covers recipes, meal plans and shopping lists. This Mealie template is a single container with a SQLite database on one volume.
KitchenOwl: KitchenOwl has its own OneClick page and adds household expense tracking to grocery lists and recipes. Mealie stays with recipes, meal planning and shopping lists.
Grocy: Grocy has its own OneClick page and tracks household stock, best-before dates and chores. Mealie starts from the recipe: import it, plan it, shop for it.
Norish: Norish has its own OneClick page for a real-time shared recipe collection. Mealie adds a weekly meal planner, cookbooks and shopping lists sorted by supermarket section.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Mealie hosting. Pick the one that fits your kitchen, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More room if Mealie shares the server with your other household apps.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Mealie is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

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Ready To Run Your Own Recipe Library?

Mealie on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Your recipes stay on a server you control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Can I run Mealie in Docker?

Yes, and this template does it for you. It runs the official Mealie 3.22.0 Docker image, pinned by digest, with the mealie_data volume, your administrator account and HTTPS on your own domain. The app is only reachable through your domain, not by server IP and port.

How much RAM does Mealie need?

The template baseline is 1024 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 5 GB of disk, and the container is capped at 1000 MB of memory. The 6 GB plan is the starting point here, well above that. Recipe images and backups you keep can need much more disk over time.

How do I sign in the first time?

Open your Mealie URL and sign in with the administrator email and password shown in xCloud after the install. If you left the password blank in the form, a 24-character one was generated. Save it somewhere safe straight away.

How do I change the administrator email or password?

Do it inside Mealie. Change the email in Profile and rotate the password with Profile → Change Password. The email and password from the install form only set up the account on the first start, so editing them in the Environment tab later changes nothing.

Can my household share one Mealie?

Yes. Mealie has households, so the people you cook with share the library, the meal plan and the shopping lists. Public sign-up is disabled, so you add members yourself from inside Mealie. Review the household settings before you add anyone.

Does Mealie send email invitations?

Not out of the box. This template does not configure SMTP, so email invitations and email password recovery do not work until you add complete SMTP settings yourself. Single sign-on through OIDC or LDAP is also not set up.

Which database does Mealie use here?

SQLite, inside the same container. Upstream recommends it for 1 to 20 users, which fits a household or a shared kitchen. Larger installs are better served by Mealie's PostgreSQL setup, which this template does not include.

Can I import recipes from other websites?

Yes. Paste the public URL of a recipe and Mealie imports the relevant data into your own library. You can also create a recipe by hand in the editor when there is no page to import from.

Why does the timezone matter?

Mealie uses the timezone you enter in the install form for meal plans and scheduled tasks. Use an IANA name such as America/New_York that matches where your household cooks, so plans land on the right day.

How do I back up Mealie?

Back up the whole mealie_data volume as one unit. It holds the SQLite database, your recipes, uploaded images and the application secrets. Nothing schedules the copy for you, so run it yourself, keep a copy off the server and test a restore.

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How do I upgrade Mealie?

The install stays on its pinned 3.22.0 image until you choose to move. Back up mealie_data first and read Mealie's release notes and migration guidance. Existing sites are never upgraded automatically, and a redeploy keeps the data volume.

Does my data survive a restart?

Yes. Everything is stored on the mealie_data volume, which is kept when the app restarts. Recipes, meal plans, shopping lists and uploaded images all live there.

Is Mealie free?

Yes. Mealie is open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence, so the software has no licence fee. You pay only for the dedicated Cloud VPS that runs it.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.