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Personal dashboards

A personal dashboard is a single web page you arrange around your own day: weather, a clock, a to-do list, bookmarks, maybe a countdown to something you're waiting on. It is not the same thing as a business intelligence dashboard, and it is not the net-worth tracker that some finance apps also call a "personal dashboard." If a search for the term keeps landing you on a login page for tracking investments, that is a different product with the same name, not this one.

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  1. DashSuey

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    Personal dashboard with widgets you drag, resize and save to your own board.

    Sponsored by DashSuey, made by the people who maintain this list.

    Type
    Hosted web app
    Price
    Free plan, paid upgrades
    Code
    Closed source
    Runs on
    Web

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    Read the write-up dashsuey.com, DashSuey site

Who it suits

Anyone who wants one page instead of five open tabs. Some people want it purely personal, a private board only they see. Others want it built around a household, with chores, a shared calendar and more than one login.

How to choose

Start with where the data lives. A hosted dashboard like Dashly or DashSuey saves your board to an account, so it follows you to another browser or computer, but it needs a sign-in and an internet connection. Family Dashboard takes the opposite route: it works offline and pairs devices by QR code instead of an account, which suits a household that would rather not hand its calendar to a third-party server.

Scale matters too. Single Dashboard is built for multi-monitor desks and wall-mounted screens, with paid tiers sized by how many dashboards you run at once, closer to a small business tool wearing a personal dashboard's name than something for one person's laptop. FamilyDash goes the other way, built specifically around chores, allowances and a shared grocery list rather than general-purpose widgets.

Free tiers are common but capped differently: by widget count, by number of boards, or by which integrations you can add. Read what a free plan actually locks before you build a layout around it, since moving a working setup later is more friction than starting on the right one.

Sponsored by DashSuey, made by the people who maintain this list. Its own free plan covers a capped number of widgets on one board, with a paid plan for more.

If what you actually want is a page that replaces your new browser tab rather than one you visit on purpose, see new tab extensions instead. If bookmarks matter more to you than widgets, see start pages.

Questions people ask

What is a personal dashboard?

A personal dashboard is a single page you customize with your own widgets, typically weather, a clock, a to-do list and bookmarks, arranged for your own use rather than a team's or a business's reporting.

How do I create a personal dashboard?

Pick a hosted app such as Dashly or DashSuey, sign up, and add widgets from its picker, or choose an offline option like Family Dashboard if you would rather not create an account at all. Most let you drag widgets into place and resize them.

What is the best free personal dashboard app?

There is no single best pick. Family Dashboard is free with no account needed. DashSuey and Dashly both offer a free tier capped on widgets or boards, with a paid plan once you outgrow it.