Best alternatives to Dashwise in 2026

If you run more than a couple of self-hosted apps at home — a media server, a file server, a smart-home hub, a backup job — you already know the annoyance of bookmarking five different URLs and checking each one separately to see if anything's broken. Dashwise fixes that by giving you one homepage for your entire home server setup: a single dashboard where every app gets a tile, a status check, and a link, and you configure the whole thing by clicking around in a settings screen instead of hand-editing YAML files. Dashwise is a self-hosted, open-source dashboard (React frontend, Bun API layer, PocketBase backend) built specifically for the "homelab" crowd — people running their own servers, containers, and services at home rather than paying for cloud SaaS. It ships with built-in authentication (including SSO via OIDC), a modular widget system for extending functionality, RSS/news feed integration, push notifications, and a Spotlight-style Ctrl+K search for jumping between services fast. Third-party app integrations are defined via YAML, but day-to-day configuration — adding tiles, rearranging the layout — happens entirely through the GUI, which is the project's main point of differentiation from older dashboard tools that require editing config files by hand.