Fenrus vs Homer
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted dashboards & startpages options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Fenrus with
choose an app… Portainer CE CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Homepage Dashy Dockge Cube Sampler Dashboard Heimdall Flame Organizr Homarr dashdot Dockpeek Mafl
Compare Homer with
choose an app… Uptime Kuma Netdata Grafana Prometheus Portainer CE CasaOS Glance What's Up Status Glances Homepage InfluxDB Grafana k6 Grafana Loki Dashy Apache SkyWalking Beszel Dockge Jaeger Vector Cube Sampler Dashboard Benphelps Homepage Heimdall Glances Web Dashboard Flame Cosmos Server Organizr Your Spotify Dashboard Homarr Personal Management System Walkxcode Startpage dashdot Speedtest Tracker Dashboard Smashing Lobe Startpage Dockpeek Apprise Dashboard Chronograf DashMachine Lissy93 Dashy Themes Statusnook Dash. by phntxx Flemmarr Mafl Starbase 80 Grafonnet Dashboards Grafana Image Renderer Grafana Scenes Kiosk LXD Dashboard Homepage by tomershvueli Web-Portal Dashbrr Hiccup DMARCguard Webtop Dashboard portkey Hubleys Yacht gobookmarks Startpunkt
Feature Fenrus Homer Category Dashboards & Startpages Dashboards & Startpages License GPL-2.0 Apache-2.0 Language JavaScript Vue Setup difficulty Easy Easy Min. RAM 256 MB 64 MB Deployment docker docker, bare-metal GitHub stars ★ 786 ★ 11,537 First released 2022 2019 Replaces Heimdall Heimdall
Why pick each one
Choose Fenrus if… Multi-user dashboards Live app data Simple to run Fenrus details Choose Homer if… Extremely lightweight Trivial to host Fast Homer details
Frequently asked questions Is Fenrus or Homer better? Neither is universally better. Homer has the larger community; both share a easy setup difficulty, so the decision comes down to features and licensing.
Are Fenrus and Homer free and open-source? Yes. Fenrus is licensed under GPL-2.0 and Homer under Apache-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Fenrus and Homer with Docker? Fenrus: yes. Homer: yes.