Glance vs Your Spotify
| Tagline | Highly customizable dashboard that puts all your feeds in one place | Record your Spotify listening history and explore personal statistics via a web app |
| Category | BI & Dashboards | BI & Dashboards |
| Replaces | Tableau, Looker, Power BI | Tableau, Looker, Power BI |
| GitHub stars | 35k | 4.5k |
| Language | Docker | Nodejs |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 3/5 Moderate |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Manual | Docker Docker Compose |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 19 days ago | 20 days ago |
| View repo | View repo |
Where each falls short
The honest trade-offs — what you give up with each, versus the proprietary tools they replace.
Glance
- No built-in database or persistent data store; purely a read/aggregation layer
- No multi-user support or access control
- No data source connectors for business databases or warehouses (unlike Tableau/Power BI)
- No interactive charts, pivot tables, or drill-down analytics
Your Spotify
- Limited to Spotify data only; no support for other music services
- Requires setting up a Spotify developer app and OAuth credentials
- No custom alerting, reports, or data export features
- MongoDB dependency adds operational overhead compared to simpler dashboards
Bottom line
Choose Glance if you want the lower-effort setup; choose Glance for the larger community and ecosystem. Glance has seen more recent development. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.
Your Spotify
Record your Spotify listening history and explore personal statistics via a web app