Glance
A self-hosted dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place
Install / Use
/learn @glanceapp/GlanceREADME
Features
Various widgets
- RSS feeds
- Subreddit posts
- Hacker News posts
- Weather forecasts
- YouTube channel uploads
- Twitch channels
- Market prices
- Docker containers status
- Server stats
- Custom widgets
- and many more...
Fast and lightweight
- Low memory usage
- Few dependencies
- Minimal vanilla JS
- Single <20mb binary available for multiple OSs & architectures and just as small Docker container
- Uncached pages usually load within ~1s (depending on internet speed and number of widgets)
Tons of customizability
- Different layouts
- As many pages/tabs as you need
- Numerous configuration options for each widget
- Multiple styles for some widgets
- Custom CSS
Optimized for mobile devices
Because you'll want to take it with you on the go.
Themeable
Easily create your own theme by tweaking a few numbers or choose from one of the already available themes.
Configuration
Configuration is done through YAML files, to learn more about how the layout works, how to add more pages and how to configure widgets, visit the configuration documentation.
<details> <summary><strong>Preview example configuration file</strong></summary> <br>pages:
- name: Home
columns:
- size: small
widgets:
- type: calendar
first-day-of-week: monday
- type: rss
limit: 10
collapse-after: 3
cache: 12h
feeds:
- url: https://selfh.st/rss/
title: selfh.st
limit: 4
- url: https://ciechanow.ski/atom.xml
- url: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/rss.xml
title: Josh Comeau
- url: https://samwho.dev/rss.xml
- url: https://ishadeed.com/feed.xml
title: Ahmad Shadeed
- type: twitch-channels
channels:
- theprimeagen
- j_blow
- piratesoftware
- cohhcarnage
- christitustech
- EJ_SA
- size: full
widgets:
- type: group
widgets:
- type: hacker-news
- type: lobsters
- type: videos
channels:
- UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw # Linus Tech Tips
- UCR-DXc1voovS8nhAvccRZhg # Jeff Geerling
- UCsBjURrPoezykLs9EqgamOA # Fireship
- UCBJycsmduvYEL83R_U4JriQ # Marques Brownlee
- UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA # Veritasium
- type: group
widgets:
- type: reddit
subreddit: technology
show-thumbnails: true
- type: reddit
subreddit: selfhosted
show-thumbnails: true
- size: small
widgets:
- type: weather
location: London, United Kingdom
units: metric
hour-format: 12h
- type: markets
markets:
- symbol: SPY
name: S&P 500
- symbol: BTC-USD
name: Bitcoin
- symbol: NVDA
name: NVIDIA
- symbol: AAPL
name: Apple
- symbol: MSFT
name: Microsoft
- type: releases
cache: 1d
repositories:
- glanceapp/glance
- go-gitea/gitea
- immich-app/immich
- syncthing/syncthing
Installation
Choose one of the following methods:
<details> <summary><strong>Docker compose using provided directory structure (recommended)</strong></summary> <br>Create a new directory called glance as well as the template files within it by running:
mkdir glance && cd glance && curl -sL https://github.com/glanceapp/docker-compose-template/archive/refs/heads/main.tar.gz | tar -xzf - --strip-components 2
click here to view the files that will be created
Then, edit the following files as desired:
docker-compose.ymlto configure the port, volumes and other containery thingsconfig/home.ymlto configure the widgets or layout of the home pageconfig/glance.ymlif you want to change the theme or add more pages
.envto configure environment variables that will be available inside configuration filesassets/user.cssto add custom CSS
When ready, run:
docker compose up -d
If you encounter any issues, you can check the logs by running:
docker compose logs
Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following contents:
services:
glance:
container_name: glance
image: glanceapp/glance
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./config:/app/config
ports:
- 8080:8080
Then, create a new directory called config and download the example starting glance.yml file into it by running:
mkdir config && wget -O config/glance.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glanceapp/glance/refs/heads/main/docs/glance.yml
Feel free to edit the glance.yml file to your liking, and when ready run:
docker compose up -d
If you encounter any issues, you can check the logs by running:
docker logs glance
Precompiled binaries are available for Linux, Windows and macOS (x86, x86_64, ARM and ARM64 architectures).
Linux
Visit the latest release page for available binaries. You can place the binary in /opt/glance/ and have it start with your server via a systemd service. By default, when running the binary, it will look for a glance.yml file in the directory it's placed in. To specify a different path for the config file, use the --config option:
/opt/glance/glance --config /etc/glance.yml
To grab a starting template for the config file, run:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/glanceapp/glance/refs/heads/main/docs/glance.yml
Windows
Download and extract the executable from the latest release (most likely the file called glance-windows-amd64.zip if you're on a 64-bit system) and place it in a folder of your choice. Then, create a new text file called glance.yml in the same folder and paste the content from here in it. You should then be able to run the executable and access the dashboard by visiting http://localhost:8080 in your browser.
Glance can also be installed through the following 3rd party channels:
<hr> </details> <br>Common issues
<details> <summary><strong>Requests timing out</strong></summary>The most common cause of this is when using Pi-Hole, AdGuard Home or other ad-blocking DNS services, which by default have a fairly low rate limit. Depending on the number of widgets you have in a single page, this limit can very easily be exceeded. To fix this, increase the rate limit in the settings of your DNS service.
If using Podman, in some rare cases the timeout can be caused by an unknown issue, in which case it may be resolved by adding the following to the bottom of your docker-compose.yml file:
networks:
podman:
external: true
This is almost always caused by the browser extension Dark Reader. To fix this, disable dark mode for the domain where Glance is hosted.
</details> <details> <summary><strong>cannot unmarshal !!map into []glance.page</strong></summary>The most common cause of this is having a pages key in your glance.yml and then also having a pages key inside one of your included pages. To fix this, remove the pages key from the top of your included pages.
