Alternatives to Glance
Compact dashboard that combines feeds, videos, weather and server stats on one page. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Glance
Compact dashboard that combines feeds, videos, weather and server stats on one page.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Glance.
Homepage
Static, fast application dashboard with integrations for over a hundred services.
Homepage is also YAML-configured but centres on application links with widgets for over a hundred services, proxied server-side, rather than feeds, videos and weather.
Dashy
Configurable homelab dashboard with live status checks and widgets.
Dashy is a YAML-configured homelab dashboard focused on live status checks and widgets, under the MIT licence, though its widget set is uneven and some use third-party APIs.
Homarr
Homelab dashboard with drag-and-drop layout and integrations for common services.
Homarr replaces YAML with drag-and-drop editing in the browser and adds integrations for common services, though credentials need re-entering after major upgrades.
Heimdall
Simple application dashboard for the links and services you use most.
Heimdall is a simpler MIT-licensed application dashboard with almost no configuration, but it lacks feeds and server stats and its development has been quiet.
Flame
Minimal self-hosted start page for applications and bookmarks.
Flame is a minimal start page for apps and bookmarks edited in the browser without a config file, with no feeds or server stats and quiet upstream development.
Organizr
Tabbed portal that gathers self-hosted web apps behind one login.
Organizr is a PHP tabbed portal that places self-hosted web apps behind one login, rather than a single dense page of feeds and server stats.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Glances
A cross-platform system monitor that runs in a terminal, in a browser, or as an API feeding a dashboard.
beszel
Track server health through a lightweight web dashboard.
Netdata
Per-second metrics for a machine with no configuration, and charts that appear the moment you install it.
Uptime Kuma
A self-hosted uptime monitor that pings your sites and services and tells you the moment one stops answering.
Pulse
A self-hosted monitoring dashboard for Proxmox, Docker, Kubernetes, TrueNAS and vSphere with alerting.
