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Glance
One start page with your feeds, weather, markets, calendar and server status.
Food & home
AGPL-3.0-only
Reviewed version 8958aa8
What it does
Glance is a self-hosted dashboard that puts everything you check each day on one fast page: RSS feeds, weather, Reddit, YouTube, stock prices, calendars, server stats and more. It is a single small program configured with one YAML file, and looks good on desktop and phone.
- One YAML file configures everything
- Fast and light, a single binary
- Many built-in widgets plus custom API widget
- Great on phones and tablets
Great for: Anyone who opens the same five sites every morning.
- LicenceAGPL-3.0-only
- Where it runsYour computer (free)
- Built withgo, html, javascript
- Your dataNone stored
- Sourceglanceapp/glance
Ways to use it
Your AI helps you choose, based on what you need, and sets it up with you in plain words.
- On my own computerFreeYour AI installs what it needs and explains each step. It works while your computer is on.
How people are using this project
Examples of what people ask their AI to do with Glance. Start from one, or just tell your AI and it will ask what you'd like.
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“A page with the weather, school calendar, news and the shopping list link.”
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“Show my services' status and disk space on one page.”
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“Show the next three buses at my stop using the city's API.”
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“A large, simple page for the kitchen tablet with the date, weather and school lunches.”
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Can I trust it?
- AGPL-3.0-only. Free to use and change. If other people use your changed version, including over a network (for example a website you host for them), you must offer them your source code under the same licence. Using it privately for yourself or your household has no extra obligations.
- Your data: stores no personal data. A YAML configuration file. Nothing else is stored.
- Other services: Weather, markets and feed sources (optional, free)
- Reviewed version. Your AI always gets exactly the version we've checked.
- Keep it on your home network or behind a login. It has no login of its own.
- API keys in glance.yml are secrets. Keep them out of Git and chats.
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