Heimdall
Elegant solution to organise all your web applications.
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Still maintained? Yes: 51 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.8.4 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Personal Dashboards: Linktree alternatives.
At a glance
Heimdall quick facts
- Health score
- 86/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 9,375
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.8.4, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Heimdall
In its own words
The project's README opens: "As the name suggests Heimdall Application Dashboard is a dashboard for all your web applications. It doesn't need to be limited to applications though, you can add links to anything you like."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Heimdall scores 86/100, #10 of 19 in Personal Dashboards: 51 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.8.4, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 9,375 stars add 15.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
51 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.8.4 released yesterday
- Stars 15.9 / 20
9.4k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 51
- Last 90 days
- 103
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #10 of 19 tools in Personal Dashboards by health , between Hubleys (#9) and gobookmarks (#11) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | v2.8.4 · yesterday |
| Stars | 9,375 |
| Open issues | 3 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | linuxserver/Heimdall ↗ |
Heimdall vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Heimdall (Personal Dashboards), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dashy | 98 | 27k | MIT | today |
| Glance | 98 | 38k | AGPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
| Homepage by gethomepage | 98 | 33k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Homarr | 95 | 5.2k | MIT | today |
| Personal Management System | 94 | 4.2k | MIT | yesterday |
| Heimdall (this tool) | 86 | 9.4k | MIT | yesterday |
Heimdall: common questions
Is Heimdall still maintained?
Heimdall had 51 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v2.8.4, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.