Glance

Hosted Glance: managed dashboard hosting for people who want their morning skim on one page instead of twenty tabs.

Early Access

This app is a brand-new addition to ElfHosted, and is considered beta. It runs, we test it, and your trial lets you prove it fits before you commit, but our support team does not yet have deep experience with it. Expect some trial and error: lean on the upstream documentation, experiment freely, and share what you learn in Discord, where the community and team are figuring these new apps out together. If you need a battle-tested workflow today, our established apps are the safer pick.

What is Glance?

Glance is a lightweight dashboard that puts all your feeds on one fast, beautiful page: RSS feeds, subreddit posts, Hacker News, weather forecasts, YouTube channel uploads, Twitch channels, market prices, site bookmarks, and dozens more widgets, arranged across as many pages and tabs as you like. With 35,000+ GitHub stars, it has become the default answer to “how do I see everything at once?”

It is built for speed (pages typically load in about a second) and works beautifully on mobile, so the couch skim looks the same as the desk skim. Themes and custom CSS round out the customisation.

Key Features

• Dozens of widgets: RSS, Reddit, Hacker News, weather, YouTube, Twitch, markets, bookmarks, calendars, and a growing community catalogue.
• Pages and tabs: Organise widgets into columns, pages, and tabs; build a news page, a markets page, a hobby page.
• Fast everywhere: Sub-second loads on desktop and mobile.
• One YAML file: The entire dashboard is defined in a single readable config file, easy to tweak, easy to version, easy to share.
• Themes and custom CSS: Make it yours, from minimal monochrome to full colour.
• Helpful error messages: Break the config and Glance tells you exactly what is wrong and on which line.

Glance in Your Stack

Glance is your window on the outside world, the feeds and news you follow, while a dashboard like Homarr covers the inside world of your apps and services. Many customers run one of each. On ElfHosted, you edit your dashboard config at /config/glance.yml using FileBrowser, and Glance picks up changes the moment you save.

Why Run Glance on ElfHosted?

A morning dashboard needs to be there every morning. ElfHosted keeps Glance running, updated, and protected, so the only thing you maintain is your widget list.

• Managed access and support: Provisioned in minutes, protected by ElfHosted single sign-on. Sam, our AI helper, answers questions, and our team on Discord helps when Sam can’t.
• Plays well with other ElfHosted apps: Edit your config with FileBrowser and link out to the rest of your subscription.
• Persistent config: Your dashboard layout and widgets survive restarts and upgrades.
• Simple subscription: One flat monthly price with a 7-day trial, cancel anytime.

Works With

• FileBrowser: Edit your glance.yml config from any browser.
• RSS feeds: Any site with a feed becomes a widget.
• Reddit / Hacker News / YouTube / Twitch: Native widgets for the sources you actually check.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I access my Glance instance?
Glance has no accounts of its own, so your instance sits fully behind ElfHosted single sign-on: only you (and anyone you whitelist) can see your dashboard.

How do I configure it without a settings UI?
Everything lives in one YAML file at /config/glance.yml, which you edit with the included FileBrowser app. Your instance starts with a sensible default config, and upstream publishes preconfigured pages you can copy and tweak.

What if I break the config?
Glance shows a friendly error naming the exact line at fault. Fix it in FileBrowser, refresh, done.

Is it just for tech news?
No. Weather, sports feeds via RSS, market prices, YouTube channels, Twitch streams, bookmarks: if you check it daily, Glance can probably show it.