🚀 Glance: The Self-Hosted Dashboard for All Your Feeds

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Glance: a lightweight, highly customizable dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place

Glance is a self-hosted, highly customizable dashboard that brings all your feeds together into a beautiful, streamlined interface. With over 34,000 stars on GitHub, it has become one of the most popular solutions for anyone who wants a central control panel that's fast and good-looking.

Key features

• 🚀 Multiple widgets — RSS, Reddit, Hacker News, weather, YouTube, Twitch, financial markets, Docker, server stats, and much more.
• ⚡ Lightweight and fast — Single binary under 20MB, few dependencies, minimal vanilla JS. Non-cached pages load in ~1 second.
• 💻 YAML configuration — Flexible layout, multiple pages, per-widget configuration options.
• 🎯 Mobile optimized — Take it with you anywhere, the interface adapts perfectly to any screen.
• 🧠 Highly customizable — Custom CSS, built-in themes, custom widgets (iframe, HTML, extensions, custom API).
• 📦 Easy installation — Docker Compose (recommended), precompiled binaries for Linux/Windows/macOS, or third-party channels like Proxmox, NixOS, Coolify.
• 🔧 Custom widgets — iframe widget, html widget, extension widget, custom-api widget to create tailor-made widgets.
• 📊 Configurable cache — Each widget has its own cache lifetime, customizable based on your needs.

How it works

• 🚀 Configure the layout with YAML files: choose columns, sizes and widgets for each page.
• 💡 Each page can have multiple columns with different sizes (small, medium, full).
• 🔗 Widgets fetch data on page load and store it in cache.
• 📦 Themes are easily created by tweaking a few numeric parameters.

Get started

• 🚀 mkdir glance && cd glance && curl -sL https://github.com/glanceapp/docker-compose-template/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz | tar -xzf - --strip-components 2 — download the recommended Docker structure.
• 💻 docker compose up -d — start the dashboard.
• 🔗 Edit config/home.yml to customize widgets and layout.
• 📦 Access http://localhost:8080 to view your panel.

👉 Glance project on GitHub: https://github.com/glanceapp/glance