Heimdall
Elegant solution to organise all your web applications.
Maintained, but at a slower pace than the leaders in its category.
Commit activity more than 24% of tracked projects; popularity more than 78%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 9.3k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v2.8.3 · 5 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 9 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | MIT |
| Built with | PHP |
Is Heimdall actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 72 commits, of which 65 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 22 commits a month.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 6400% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v2.8.3, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 19 projects we track in Personal Dashboards, Heimdall ranks #5 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Heimdall actually does
Heimdall is a web-based dashboard designed to help you organise links to your various self-hosted applications and services in one central location. It provides a clean landing page interface so you can quickly access your local network tools and web services without memorising individual ports and IP addresses. The project is implemented in PHP and made available under an open-source MIT licence.
Best fit: It suits homelab enthusiasts and self-hosters who want a straightforward, visually tidy landing page for their browser bookmarks without complex configuration.
Worth knowing: Development activity is modest, and the feature set is relatively basic compared to more customisable or dynamic dashboard alternatives.
Deployment notes
As a PHP application, you will typically need a web server like Nginx or Apache with PHP-FPM configured, along with persistent storage if you rely on local configuration persistence.
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