Updated August 2026
    Slowing down
    36k

    Glance: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Highly customizable dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place.

    TL;DR • Glance • as of August 2026

    Glance is an open-source personal dashboards project, with 36k GitHub stars and a health score of 37/100. It committed 15 times in the last twelve months across 4 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    36k
    GitHub stars
    37/100
    Health score
    15
    Commits (12 mo)
    4/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year.
    Last commit 2026-05-30
    Days since last commit 79
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 15
    Months with activity 4 of 12
    Last release 2026-05-30
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Personal Dashboards

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    AGPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Glance means for your idea

    Contested · 44/100
    Personal Dashboards category →

    Glance is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Glance: common questions

    Is Glance still maintained in 2026?

    Slowing down. Glance recorded 15 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 4 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-05-30. Last release: 2026-05-30. Commits have thinned out over the last year.

    Can I use Glance commercially?

    Glance is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Personal Dashboards category?

    18 open-source implementations, 10 of them actively maintained, led by Glance at 36k stars. Saturation score 44/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

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