Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    4.5k

    Homarr: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Sleek, modern dashboard with many integrations and web-based config.

    TL;DR • Homarr • as of August 2026

    Homarr is an open-source personal dashboards project, with 4.5k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 2161 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: MIT. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    4.5k
    GitHub stars
    100/100
    Health score
    2161
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-15
    Days since last commit 2
    Commits, last 3 months 582
    Commits, last 12 months 2161
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-08-14
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    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

    MIT

    Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    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 Homarr means for your idea

    Contested · 44/100
    Personal Dashboards category →

    Homarr is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    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.

    Homarr: common questions

    Is Homarr still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Homarr recorded 2161 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 582 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-08-14. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Homarr commercially?

    Homarr is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    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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