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glance vs Bluesky
glance has 37,086 GitHub stars, 1,463 forks, 318 open issues and last shipped 13 days ago. Bluesky has 18,295 stars, 2,837 forks, 2,400 open issues and last shipped yesterday. glance leads on adoption by 103% (37,086 vs 18,295 stars). glance is written in Go under AGPL-3.0; Bluesky is written in TypeScript under MIT. glance has attracted 4% as many forks as stars, Bluesky 16%. Bluesky was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| glance | Bluesky | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 37K | ★ 18K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-05 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.5K | ⑂ 2.8K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick glance if
- You weight community size — 37K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Bluesky if
- You want the Bluesky feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and Bluesky fits your workflow better
About glance
Glance is a self hosted dashboard application written in Go and released under the AGPL 3.0 license. It gathers feeds and status information from many sources into a single customizable page, so that a user can read news, follow channels and watch server health from one interface instead of opening a separate tab or application for each source. It lives in the self hosted and homelab ecosystem, alongside other Docker packaged services that users run on their own hardware. The project has been on GitHub for about two years, holds roughly 37,000 stars and 1,454 forks, and its topic list places it among aggregators,…
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About Bluesky
Bluesky is the open source social application codebase for the Bluesky Social app. It lives in the AT Protocol ecosystem, also called atproto, and it is written in TypeScript as a React Native application. The project provides client code for Web, iOS, and Android, and it builds on open source atproto packages such as @atproto/api, which live in a separate repository.
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Frequently asked questions
Is glance or Bluesky more popular?
glance has 37,086 GitHub stars and Bluesky has 18,295. glance has the larger community by that measure.
Are glance and Bluesky free?
Both are open source. glance is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Bluesky under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between glance and Bluesky?
glance is written in Go and Bluesky in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, glance or Bluesky?
Choose glance if you want the larger community (37,086 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose Bluesky if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.