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Headlamp vs Luxury Yacht: catalog facts
Headlamp	Luxury Yacht
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux
Works as a desktop app or deployed in-cluster Multi-cluster support using an existing kubeconfig	Multi-cluster switching with diffs of objects across clusters Log viewer that merges pods and parses JSON logs into a table
Desktop apps are unsigned and trigger OS warnings Limited-permission tokens may not show all resources	Assumes familiarity with Kubernetes concepts Helm support covers browsing releases rather than full chart management
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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