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glance vs upvote-rss
glance has 37,220 GitHub stars, 1,465 forks, 318 open issues and last shipped 22 days ago. upvote-rss has 500 stars, 13 forks, 15 open issues and last shipped 7 months ago. glance leads on adoption by 7,344% (37,220 vs 500 stars). glance is written in Go under AGPL-3.0; upvote-rss is written in PHP under MIT. glance has attracted 4% as many forks as stars, upvote-rss 3%. glance was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 3 topic tags (reddit, rss, self-hosted), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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 | upvote-rss | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 37K | ★ 500 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-09-05 | 2026-03-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.5K | ⑂ 13 |
| 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 upvote-rss if
- You want the upvote-rss feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and upvote-rss 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 upvote-rss
Upvote RSS is a self hostable PHP application that generates rich RSS feeds of the most popular posts from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Lobste.rs, PieFed, Mbin, and GitHub, aimed at people who want to follow those communities from a feed reader rather than browsing them directly.
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Frequently asked questions
Is glance or upvote-rss more popular?
glance has 37,220 GitHub stars and upvote-rss has 500. glance has the larger community by that measure.
Are glance and upvote-rss free?
Both are open source. glance is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and upvote-rss under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between glance and upvote-rss?
glance is written in Go and upvote-rss 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 upvote-rss?
Choose glance if you want the larger community (37,220 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose upvote-rss if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.