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Mealie - Recipe & Meal Planner

RanduSoft SRL · Food & Drink

Mealie on your iPhone and iPad

$1.99 · In-app purchases

PRICE
$1.99
In-app purchases
BUSINESS MODEL
Paid
No overall Grossing estimate available
RATING
★ 4.6
21 ratings · Top 15%

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Feature spec

Goal: Send a clear invoice after finishing a job.

  • Add a client, line items, a due date, and payment instructions.
  • Preview the total before exporting a PDF.
  • Keep an editable draft if export fails.

Screen plan

Invoice editor: Client at the top, editable line items in the middle, total and preview action at the bottom.

States: Empty draft, validation errors beside each field, exporting, and a retry action that preserves the draft.

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Hypothesis: Contractors need faster repeat invoices more than more templates.

First experiment: Test duplicating a previous job with five contractors. Watch where they hesitate before expanding the feature set.

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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 - Support for English, German, French, and Spanish - iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad, with a layout built for the larger screen and keyboard shortcuts

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Hypothesis 1

Implement personalized recommendations based on user preferences and dietary restrictions.

Assumption to check: Limited recipe discovery options

Validate with people who use this workflow before building.

Hypothesis 2

Offer a free trial or freemium model to attract more users.

Assumption to check: Subscription barriers for premium features

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Hypothesis 3

Incorporate social sharing options to enhance user engagement.

Assumption to check: Lack of social sharing features

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Hypothesis 4

Standardize UI components for a cohesive experience.

Assumption to check: Inconsistent UI across screens

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Build scope

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Define the first version

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Set boundaries

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Check the hard parts

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SUGGESTED BUILD STACK
React Native
Expo
Zustand
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BUILD KIT DIFFICULTY
Intermediate

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