Glance
Highly customizable dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 15% of tracked projects; popularity more than 94%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 37k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v0.8.6 · 3 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 5 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker, Go |
Is Glance actively maintained?
Glance is under active development: 34 commits landed over the last 11 months, averaging roughly 8 commits a month in the most recent quarter.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 317% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v0.8.6, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 19 projects we track in Personal Dashboards, Glance ranks #4 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Glance actually does
Glance is a personal dashboard designed to centralise various web feeds into a single interface. It allows you to organise and monitor multiple content streams from one place using a customisable layout. The application is packaged as a Docker container.
Best fit: It suits users who want to consolidate diverse web feeds and personal monitoring widgets into a single, self-hosted browser page.
Worth knowing: The AGPL-3.0 licence requires you to make the source code available if you modify the software and run it as a network service. Additionally, highly customisable dashboard tools often require manual YAML or configuration editing rather than offering fully graphical setup.
Deployment notes
As a Docker-based Go application, it typically requires a persistent volume mounted for configuration storage and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination. It generally runs as a lightweight container without needing a separate database backend.
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