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Community widgets •Preconfigured pages •Themes

A lightweight, highly customizable dashboard that displays
your feeds in a beautiful, streamlined interface

Features

Various widgets

Fast and lightweight

Tons of customizability

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.

Preview example configuration file

pages:

Installation

Choose one of the following methods:

Docker compose using provided directory structure (recommended)

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:

When ready, run:

If you encounter any issues, you can check the logs by running:

Docker compose manual

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:

If you encounter any issues, you can check the logs by running:

Manual binary installation

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.

Other

Glance can also be installed through the following 3rd party channels:

Common issues

Requests timing out

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

Broken layout for markets, bookmarks or other widgets

This is almost always caused by the browser extension Dark Reader. To fix this, disable dark mode for the domain where Glance is hosted.

cannot unmarshal !!map into []glance.page

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.

FAQ

**Does the information on the page update automatically?**No, a page refresh is required to update the information. Some things do dynamically update where it makes sense, like the clock widget and the relative time showing how long ago something happened. **How frequently do widgets update?**No requests are made periodically in the background, information is only fetched upon loading the page and then cached. The default cache lifetime is different for each widget and can be configured. Can I create my own widgets?

Yes, there are multiple ways to create custom widgets:

Yes, the title of all widgets can be changed by specifying the title property in the widget's configuration:

and so on for all widgets...

Feature requests

New feature suggestions are always welcome and will be considered, though please keep in mind that some of them may be out of scope for what the project is trying to achieve (or is reasonably capable of). If you have an idea for a new feature and would like to share it, you can do so here.

Feature requests are tagged with one of the following:

Building from source

Choose one of the following methods:

Build binary with Go

Requirements: Go >= v1.23

To build the project for your current OS and architecture, run:

go build -o build/glance .

To build for a specific OS and architecture, run:

GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o build/glance .

click here for a full list of GOOS and GOARCH combinations

Alternatively, if you just want to run the app without creating a binary, like when you're testing out changes, you can run:

Build project and Docker image with Docker

Requirements: Docker

To build the project and image using just Docker, run:

(replace owner with your name or organization)

docker build -t owner/glance:latest .

If you wish to push the image to a registry (by default Docker Hub), run:

docker push owner/glance:latest

Contributing guidelines

[1] The feature likely already has work put into it that may conflict with your implementation

[2] The demand, implementation or functionality for this feature is not yet clear

[3] No plans to add this feature for the time being

Thank you

To all the people who were generous enough to sponsor the project and to everyone who has contributed in any way, be it PRs, submitting issues, helping others in the discussions or Discord server, creating guides and tools or just mentioning Glance on social media. Your support is greatly appreciated and helps keep the project going.