Glance
Dashboards & StartpagesSelf-hosted feeds and info dashboard
Replaces Heimdall
Best Lightweight Dashboards & Startpages for self-hosting
The 23 best Lightweight dashboards & startpages you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
CasaOS
Dashboards & StartpagesSimple, easy-to-use home cloud system and dashboard
Replaces Google homepage
Homepage
Dashboards & StartpagesFast, file-configured application dashboard
Replaces Heimdall
Sampler Dashboard
Dashboards & StartpagesTerminal dashboard for visualizing shell command output
Replaces Grafana
Homer
Dashboards & StartpagesStatic, fast and simple service dashboard
Replaces Heimdall
Heimdall
Dashboards & StartpagesSimple application dashboard and launcher
Replaces Heimdall
Homebox
Dashboards & StartpagesSelf-hosted home and homelab inventory manager
Replaces Sortly
Flame
Dashboards & StartpagesMinimalist self-hosted start page
Replaces Heimdall
Organizr
Dashboards & StartpagesTabbed portal for your self-hosted services
Replaces Heimdall
dashdot
Dashboards & StartpagesSimple, modern server resource dashboard
Replaces Heimdall
Tabliss
Dashboards & StartpagesBeautiful, customizable new-tab startpage
Replaces Momentum
Dockpeek
Dashboards & StartpagesDashboard that auto-discovers Docker container links
Replaces Heimdall
DashMachine
Dashboards & StartpagesApplication dashboard for keeping services organized
Replaces Google homepage
Statusnook
Dashboards & StartpagesEffortless self-hosted status page and monitoring dashboard
Replaces StatusPage, Instatus
Hajimari
Dashboards & StartpagesKubernetes-aware startpage that auto-discovers your apps
Replaces Google homepage
Fenrus
Dashboards & StartpagesPersonal home page with smart app widgets
Replaces Heimdall
Mafl
Dashboards & StartpagesMinimalist customizable start page
Replaces Heimdall
Grafonnet Dashboards
Dashboards & StartpagesLibrary for generating Grafana dashboards as code
Replaces Grafana
Grafana Scenes Kiosk
Dashboards & StartpagesRotating kiosk display for Grafana dashboards
Replaces Grafana Kiosk
Dashbrr
Dashboards & StartpagesService health dashboard for media automation stacks
Replaces Organizr
Web-Portal
Dashboards & StartpagesMinimal startpage for organizing links and services
Replaces Google homepage
Yacht
Dashboards & StartpagesWeb interface for managing Docker containers
Replaces Portainer
Startpunkt
Dashboards & StartpagesClean startpage that auto-discovers Kubernetes apps
Replaces Google homepage
No apps match these filters.
At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glance | ≈5-minute setup | Easy | 128 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 37,484 |
| CasaOS | ≈5-minute setup | Easy | 512 MB | Apache-2.0 | 37,302 |
| Homepage | ≈5-minute setup | Easy | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 33,121 |
| Sampler Dashboard | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 64 MB | GPL-3.0 | 14,807 |
| Homer | ≈5-minute setup | Easy | 64 MB | Apache-2.0 | 11,665 |
| Heimdall | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | MIT | 9,356 |
| Homebox | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 7,538 |
| Flame | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | MIT | 6,571 |
| Organizr | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | GPL-3.0 | 5,816 |
| dashdot | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | MIT | 3,647 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Glance (37,484 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Sampler Dashboard (from 64 MB RAM, against 512 MB for the heaviest here).
- Fastest to deploy: Glance (verified single-container compose).
- Licensing: 10 of 23 use MIT; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Lightweight within the dashboards & startpages category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.