YAMP is a free, open-source, one-person project. There is no support desk and no service-level anything — but questions do get answered.
Ask here: https://github.com/marco308/meals/issues
Expect a reply within a week. If something is private, use GitHub's private reporting form instead.
Say which server you're talking to (your own, or someone else's), the app version and build from Settings → About, and what you expected to happen. For anything server-side, the response body of the failing request is worth ten paragraphs of description — every error this API returns tries to tell you what to do instead.
Your recipes, plans and shopping list live on a server, and the app needs to know which one. You have three options:
Run it yourself. It is free, open source, and one command:
git clone https://github.com/marco308/meals && cd meals && make dev
That starts the API and a database in Docker at http://localhost:8000. To
use it from a phone rather than the simulator, put it somewhere your phone
can reach — a machine on your home network, or a small VPS. The
README covers deployment.
Join a server someone else runs. If a member of your household already has one, ask them for its URL and an invite code (Settings → Invite someone, on their device). Enter the code when you create your account and you land in their household, sharing its recipes, plan and shopping list.
Use the author's hosted server. Enter https://meals.marcuslab.uk and
create an account. There is nothing to install or run.
Yes, on whichever server you use. The account is how the server knows which household's shopping list to hand back, and it never leaves that server.
Settings → Delete account. It asks for your password and a typed confirmation, then deletes immediately — no grace period, no undo. If you are the last person in your household, its recipes, plans and lists are deleted with you.
The shopping list, yes — that's the point of it. Ticking items off, adding things, and putting items back all work with no signal: they render instantly, queue on disk, survive a relaunch, and sync when you're back in range. Plans and the recipe library show a cached copy offline but need a connection to change.
Everything is metric (g, kg, ml, l) or a count of a natural unit — "2 tins", "3 cloves". One convention means quantities from different recipes merge into one shopping-list line instead of sitting there as "1 lb" and "450 g". If you type an imperial amount, the error tells you the exact conversion to use.
Recipe import reads structured recipe data (schema.org JSON-LD) from the page and nothing else — the server never calls an AI model. Pages without it return a 422 that tells the assistant to read the page itself and submit the recipe directly, which any capable assistant can do. You can also just type the recipe in.
See SECURITY.md. Please don't test against
meals.marcuslab.uk — it holds one household's real data. Run your own.