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Self-hosted and homelab dashboards

A self-hosted dashboard is a homepage you run yourself, usually in Docker, that lists links out to whatever else you run: Pi-hole, Plex, Nextcloud, a Proxmox box, and shows live status and small widgets for each. It is built for people who already have several services running somewhere and want one page to launch and watch them from, not a general personal dashboard for someone with no server at all.

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  3. Dashy

    Self-hosted app launcher with live status checks, dozens of widgets, and a YAML config.

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    Self-hosted
    Price
    Free and open source
    Code
    Open source, MIT
    Runs on
    Docker, Raspberry Pi, Linux, macOS and more

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Who it suits

Homelab owners and self-hosters comfortable with Docker, or willing to learn enough of it to pull an image and mount a folder. If you do not run any services of your own yet, a self-hosted dashboard mostly gives you an empty page to configure; a hosted personal dashboard or new tab extension gets you further, faster.

How to choose

Configuration style is the first real fork in the road. Dashy and Homepage are YAML-first, with your sections and links written into a config file, sometimes with a UI editor over it. Homarr trades that for a drag-and-drop layout builder with authentication built in, so there is no YAML to learn at all. Heimdall sits apart from both. You add an app by name through a form, and its icon and color fill in automatically from a searchable list of supported apps.

Scope is the second fork. Glance leans toward being a feed aggregator first, RSS and Reddit alongside server stats, rather than an app launcher. Dashdot is narrower still, a single real-time view of one server's CPU, memory, storage and network. Compass sits in between, auto-discovering services from Docker, Kubernetes, Tailscale or Headscale instead of asking you to list them by hand.

All of these are free and open source, so the real cost is the machine or VPS you run them on, plus the time spent keeping the container patched and backed up. A widget catalog is only useful if you already run what it connects to; a Pi-hole or Nextcloud widget is dead weight without the service behind it.

If your dashboard just needs to be a personal page rather than a homelab's front door, personal dashboards and start pages need no server at all.

Sponsored by DashSuey, made by the people who maintain this list. It needs no server, Docker or YAML file; you sign in and it runs on its own infrastructure instead of yours.

Questions people ask

What is the best homepage for a homelab?

There is no single best pick, since each handles setup differently. Dashy and Homepage are YAML-first with large widget catalogs. Homarr trades YAML for a drag-and-drop editor with authentication built in. In Heimdall, you add an app by name through a form, and its icon and color fill in automatically from a searchable list.

How can I create my own dashboard for free?

If you are comfortable running Docker, any of the self-hosted options here work: pull the image, mount a folder for your settings, and point it at the services you already run. All of them are free and open source, so the only real cost is the machine you run them on.

What is the best free dashboard software?

Among self-hosted options, Dashy, Homepage, Homarr and Heimdall are all free and actively maintained. Which is best depends on how many services you are indexing and how much configuration you want to do by hand.

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