glance

A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

⭐ 33,966 stars on GitHub · 🍴 1,310 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: Go

What is glance?

If your browser homepage has become a pile of tabs, feeds, and monitoring links, Glance gives you one clean self-hosted surface for all of it. Its differentiator is focus: it is not trying to be a full portal or observability suite, just a fast, configurable dashboard for the information you check every day.

Main components

• Feed aggregation for RSS, Reddit, Hacker News, Lobsters, YouTube channels, Twitch channels, and other sources
• Homelab widgets for Docker container status, server stats, releases, markets, weather, calendar, and more
• YAML-based configuration for pages, columns, widgets, caching, limits, and layout
• Multi-page/tab dashboards so you can separate personal feeds, work links, infrastructure, and media
• Theme support, custom CSS, and multiple widget styles for tuning the UI without rebuilding the app
• Lightweight Go backend with a small Docker image and single-binary deployment options
• Mobile-optimized interface for checking the same dashboard from your phone

Clear use cases

• Build a personal start page with RSS feeds, YouTube uploads, weather, markets, and calendar in one view
• Create a homelab homepage that shows Docker container status, server stats, GitHub releases, and useful admin links
• Track developer news from Hacker News, Lobsters, Reddit, blogs, and project release feeds without opening five sites
• Make a mobile-friendly daily briefing page for commute reading or quick status checks
• Separate dashboards by context, such as “Home,” “Work,” “Infra,” and “Media,” each with its own widgets and layout

The biggest strength is signal aggregation without bloat — Glance pulls together the feeds and status snippets you actually care about, then presents them in a fast, readable layout. Compared with commercial dashboard tools or heavier homepage apps, its value is that you keep control of the data, deployment, styling, and update cadence while avoiding a complex plugin platform or SaaS account model.

Best for homelab users, developers, and sysadmins who want a sharp self-hosted homepage for feeds, lightweight monitoring, and daily operational context.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ aggregator
• 🏷️ dashboard
• 🏷️ docker
• 🏷️ feed-reader
• 🏷️ go
• 🏷️ homelab
• 🏷️ homepage
• 🏷️ monitoring
• 🏷️ reddit
• 🏷️ rss

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/glanceapp/glance.git
cd glance
docker build -t glance .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 glance

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: glanceapp/glance
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.