Meshi Plan vs Forked for Mealie

Your recipes. Your server. Your kitchen, beautifully organized. Meshi is the native iOS companion for your self-hosted Mealie recipe server. Browse your full cookbook, plan your week, and build your shopping list - all in one app designed from the ground up for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass. Plan Your Week at a Glance A scrollable calendar lays out every meal across your week - breakfast, lunch, dinner, and sides - each color-coded and easy to rearrange. Tap any empty slot to assign a recipe or jot a quick note. Plan a single day or the entire week ahead. Discover Something New Not sure what to cook? The Discovery tab surfaces a random recipe from your collection, lets you browse by category, and helps you explore your cookbook in fresh ways. Filter by tags, sort by date or rating, and rediscover a forgotten favourite. Browse Your Cookbook Your full recipe library, searchable and sortable. View recipes as rich cards or a compact list. Tap into any recipe for a stunning parallax detail view with step-by-step instructions and section headers. Scale and Cook Adjust servings with a tap and watch every ingredient quantity recalculate instantly. Keep the screen awake so your recipe stays visible while your hands are busy. Smart Shopping Lists Build your shopping list straight from your meal plan - add ingredients from a single recipe or an entire day. Then let on-device AI tidy things up: merge duplicates, clean up names, and organize items by store section. Powered by Apple Intelligence on supported devices, with an automatic fallback on all others. Your data never leaves your device. Import Recipes from Anywhere Spot a recipe in Safari? Share it directly to Meshi. The Share Extension imports it straight to your Mealie server in seconds - no extra steps required. Make It Yours Assign custom colors to recipe tags. Switch between card and compact views. Choose from six themes to match your style. Select your preferred cleanup mode for shopping lists. Meshi connects to your own self-hosted Mealie instance. No third-party accounts. Your recipes, your server, your privacy. Built with SwiftUI. Designed for iPhone and iPad. EULA - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Forked turns your self-hosted Mealie recipe library into a weekly meal plan and one grocery list, on your iPhone. Your recipes stay on your server. No Forked account, no ads, no tracking. NEW: HOST A MEAL WITH FORKED PRO Plan a big meal for a date and your guests. Dishes scale to your guests, the timeline works back from serving, and appetizers or dessert can come out at their own time. Cook Together runs every dish's steps at once. NEW: COOK WITH YOUR IPHONE IN REACH Start Cooking shows the ingredients each step needs. Step timers run on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, several at once, and you can stop one without opening Forked. Widgets show what's next to cook, your plan, and what's left to buy. YOUR WHOLE LIBRARY Browse every recipe as photo cards, search ingredients, steps, and notes, and filter by favorites, rating, cook time, tags, or what fits your Chef Profile. Recipes are saved for offline reading, and servings scale the amounts. EDIT, FAVORITE, AND RATE Edit recipes, add new ones, replace photos, favorite, and rate. Changes save to your Mealie server, wait safely while you're offline, and never overwrite someone else's edit without asking. HOUSEHOLDS Cook from one plan with the people you live with. A Forked Pro owner can invite up to four people for free to share a meal plan and shopping list through iCloud. Credentials, dietary preferences, and Plan History stay private. DECIDE WHAT TO COOK Swipe through Quick Picks from your own recipes to save, pass, or favorite. Suggestions are ranked by your Chef Profile and your favorites and ratings. PLAN YOUR WEEK Generate a multi-day plan from your library, choose a vibe, swap any meal, or pick any recipe yourself. Ask Siri what's next to cook, and find recipes in Spotlight (iOS 18 and later). SHARE THE MENU Send meals from your plan as a menu card with photos and a note. With Host a Meal, the card also shows when each dish is served. ONE GROCERY LIST Add a plan, saved picks, or your own items, like "2 lb chicken thighs", to one Shopping list. Quantities combine, items group by store section, and foods are suggested as you type. IMPORT FROM A LINK Bring in a recipe from almost any cooking website. Forked reads the page on your iPhone, and you check the recipe before it saves to Mealie. CHEF PROFILES FOR EVERY DIET Record allergies, diets such as vegan, halal, and gluten-free, and the ingredients you love or avoid. Allergies and diets that leave something out remove recipes whose ingredients, title, or a "Contains" tag name it; other diets, like keto, put tagged recipes first. Filtering cannot guarantee allergen safety: always check ingredients and labels. Shared and reused meals may not match your current profile, and Household members' dietary profiles are not combined. WORKS WHEN YOUR SERVER DOESN'T After your first sync, saved recipes, plans, Quick Picks, and Shopping stay ready while your server is slow or unreachable. Changes on your server arrive within minutes. FORKED PRO A $9.99 one-time purchase, shareable with Family Sharing. Pro adds Households, Host a Meal with Cook Together, Plan History, Use This Plan Again, Reuse Ingredients, and Avoid Recent Meals. Everything else in Forked stays free. Optional tips unlock nothing. Household members each need Forked, iCloud with iCloud Drive, and their own access to the same Mealie library. Turning on or accepting sync shares the Plan or Shopping list, and accepting replaces that list on your device. BUILT FOR EVERYONE VoiceOver, Voice Control, Larger Text, Reduce Motion, status that doesn't rely on color, and light and dark appearance throughout. Requires a self-hosted Mealie server; editing, importing, and other changes need Mealie 3.21 or later. Complete ingredients, tags, and categories give better suggestions and shopping lists. Forked is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Mealie project.