Dashwise
Self-hosted homelab dashboard that puts monitoring and quick links to all your personal server apps behind one customizable, click-to-configure web interface.
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Description
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.
💬 Our review
The short version: Dashwise takes the "one homepage for your homelab" idea that tools like Homepage and Heimdall popularized, and adds a genuinely GUI-first configuration experience — a real quality-of-life upgrade if you've ever fought with someone else's YAML schema at 11pm trying to add one tile.
The self-hosted dashboard space is already fairly crowded — Homepage, Homarr, Heimdall, and Dashy are all well-established, actively maintained alternatives with large communities. Dashwise's differentiation is entirely about configuration ergonomics: built-in auth with OIDC SSO and no-YAML-required setup are both still gaps in some of the older tools. The tradeoff of being newer (448 stars vs. thousands for Homepage) is a smaller community, fewer third-party integration templates, and less battle-testing across edge-case setups. Worth trying if you're setting up a homelab dashboard for the first time and want GUI configuration from day one; if you're already deep into Homepage or Homarr with a working YAML config, there's no urgent reason to migrate.
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Pros
Configuration 100% via interface graphique, pas de YAML à éditer
Authentification intégrée avec SSO OIDC
Système de widgets modulaire et extensible
Recherche rapide façon Spotlight (Ctrl+K)
Cons
Communauté plus petite que Homepage/Homarr (moins de templates tiers)
Projet plus récent, moins éprouvé sur des configurations complexes
Dépend de PocketBase en backend, une dépendance de moins en moins courante