About Awesome Dashboards

Awesome Dashboards is a list of dashboard products: personal dashboards, browser start pages and new tab extensions, self-hosted homelab tools, wall displays and e-ink screens, smart home controls, and the business and developer tools that also go by the name. The list itself lives on GitHub in the usual "awesome list" format, and this website gives every entry its own page, with more room than a single line in a README allows: what a product actually does, what it costs, and where it falls short.

A product goes on the list only if it clears a plain bar. It has to really be a dashboard product, not an article or a tutorial about one. It has to work today: the site loads, the app runs, the repository is not archived. It has to show real activity in roughly the last year, a release, a commit, a changelog entry, or a store listing update, since an abandoned project is worse than no recommendation at all.

A fourth test is editorial: the maintainers have to be able to recommend the product honestly, weighted toward well-known, well-used products, with room for a newer one that is clearly good. Products that fail any one of these four tests get left off, not marked down; this list would rather be short and reliable than long.

Every fact on a product's page is checked directly on that product's own site, its documentation, or its code repository, not taken from a press release or a rewritten description somewhere else. Each page shows the date its facts were last checked, so it is clear at a glance whether a claim is current or due for another look. Each image is either a screenshot the maintainers captured from a product's public demo or live site, or the vendor's own image from a Chrome Web Store listing or the product's home or product page. Every caption names where the image came from. Each image carries the date it was captured.

Prices are rechecked right before a page goes live, since a plan or a price is one of the first things a product changes, and pages are revisited and updated as the products they describe change.

The screenshots on this site show third-party products, included for commentary and to help a reader recognize what they are looking at before they click through. If a product's own team, or anyone else, wants a screenshot changed or removed, opening an issue on GitHub is the way to ask.

DashSuey sponsors this list, and it is made by the same people who maintain it. That sponsorship decides one thing only: where DashSuey's own listing sits and how it is labeled. It never decides which other products appear on the list, how they are described, or how they compare against DashSuey itself; a product either clears the bar above or it does not, regardless of who is paying for anything. Sponsored by DashSuey, made by the people who maintain this list.

The list and the site are both open on GitHub at https://github.com/adamculpepper/awesome-dashboards. A missing product, an outdated fact, a broken link, or a page that got something wrong all belong there, filed as an issue or sent as a pull request.

Each write-up has a "Report a mistake on this page" link that opens a GitHub issue with the product's name already filled in. Every page also shows the date its facts were last checked, and an "Updated" date once a page has been changed after it first published, so a reader can tell whether something they spotted has already been fixed. Prices and plans are rechecked shortly before a page goes live, and a published page is queued for another check once its facts are more than ninety days old. A request to take a screenshot down is honored within a day.

conduct@awesome-dashboards.com is for code of conduct reports only: anything about how people are expected to treat each other around this project. Everything else, corrections, product suggestions, questions about a page, goes through GitHub issues instead.