Glance vs Heimdall

Both are self-hosted personal dashboards projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Glance and Heimdall are closely matched on maintenance health (65 vs 65). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
GlanceHeimdall
Health score 65/100 65/100
Commits (11 mo) 34 72
Commits (last 3 mo) 25 65
Stars 37k 9.3k
Latest release 3 Sept 2026 5 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 MIT
Built with Docker, Go PHP
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Glance

Highly customizable dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place.

65/100
Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 6/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 15% of tracked projects; popularity more than 94%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 2 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 1 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 0 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 6 commits 2026-06: 0 commits 2026-07: 5 commits 2026-08: 20 commits

Heimdall

Elegant solution to organise all your web applications.

65/100
Steady

Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.

Maintenance 9/40
Releases 25/25
Community 16/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 24% of tracked projects; popularity more than 78%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 6 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 0 commits 2026-04: 0 commits 2026-05: 1 commits 2026-06: 0 commits 2026-07: 44 commits 2026-08: 21 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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