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glance vs laravel-love
glance has 37,086 GitHub stars, 1,463 forks, 318 open issues and last shipped 13 days ago. laravel-love has 1,204 stars, 76 forks, 11 open issues and last shipped 5 months ago. glance leads on adoption by 2,980% (37,086 vs 1,204 stars). glance is written in Go under AGPL-3.0; laravel-love is written in PHP under MIT. glance has attracted 4% as many forks as stars, laravel-love 6%. glance 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 | laravel-love | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 37K | ★ 1.2K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-09-05 | 2026-04-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.5K | ⑂ 76 |
| 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 laravel-love if
- You want the laravel-love feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and laravel-love 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 laravel-love
Laravel Love is an open source PHP package that adds social reactions to Laravel Eloquent models. It is built for the Laravel ecosystem and distributed through Composer under the name cybercog/laravel love . The project describes itself as the emotional part of an application: it lets people express how they feel about content, and it is designed so that any model can be made reactable in minutes.
read the full laravel-love overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is glance or laravel-love more popular?
glance has 37,086 GitHub stars and laravel-love has 1,204. glance has the larger community by that measure.
Are glance and laravel-love free?
Both are open source. glance is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and laravel-love under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between glance and laravel-love?
glance is written in Go and laravel-love in PHP. 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 laravel-love?
Choose glance if you want the larger community (37,086 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose laravel-love if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.