Stackyard vs Homepage, Dashy and Homarr

How Stackyard compares with the three dashboards it is most often weighed against.

Stackyard compared with gethomepage, Dashy, Homarr
Feature		gethomepage	Dashy	Homarr
Settings	Web UI	YAML file	YAML or UI	Web UI
Custom API	Live badge¹See note 1	YAML widget	YAML widget	Admin widget
Health checks	HTTP, Docker	HTTP, ICMP, Docker	HTTP, ICMP	HTTP
Self-hosted integrations²See note 2	24	134	19	40
User accounts	None³See note 3	None	Yes, with roles	Yes, with groups
Runtime dependencies²See note 2	None	32	34	58

Settings

Stackyard: Web UI
gethomepage: YAML file
Dashy: YAML or UI
Homarr: Web UI

Custom API

Stackyard: Live badge¹See note 1
gethomepage: YAML widget
Dashy: YAML widget
Homarr: Admin widget

Health checks

Stackyard: HTTP, Docker
gethomepage: HTTP, ICMP, Docker
Dashy: HTTP, ICMP
Homarr: HTTP

Self-hosted integrations²See note 2

Stackyard: 24
gethomepage: 134
Dashy: 19
Homarr: 40

User accounts

Stackyard: None³See note 3
gethomepage: None
Dashy: Yes, with roles
Homarr: Yes, with groups

Runtime dependencies²See note 2

Stackyard: None
gethomepage: 32
Dashy: 34
Homarr: 58

Point a tile at any API and pick a value. No code. See Badges.
From each project’s docs and source, September 2026.
One password per instance. Link instances with the Dashboard switch.

The usual approach

PlexMedia serverRUNNING

412MOVIES38SERIES1,204EPISODES0SONGS

HomebridgeHomeKit bridgeRUNNING

0UPDATES0ERRORS1PAIRED1/1BRIDGES

NtfyPush notificationsHEALTHY

3UNREAD214SENT6TOPICS2CLIENTS

KopiaBackup and snapshotsHEALTHY

OKSTATUS128 GBSIZE02:15LAST RUN02:15NEXT RUN

SeerrRequest managerRUNNING

7PENDING112APPROVED964AVAILABLE88COMPLETED

Proxy ManagerReverse proxyUNHEALTHY

-ENABLED-DISABLED-TOTAL-ERRORS

FilebrowserFile managerRUNNING

4USERS12SHARES1.2 TBUSED0ERRORS

RadarrMovie managerRUNNING

412MOVIES9WANTED0QUEUE2.8 TBSIZE

Everything is equally loud.

Stackyard

Homebridge

3Ntfy

Filebrowser

7Seerr

!NPM

Radarr

Only what matters to you.

The same facts either way: what is playing, last night's backup, seven pending requests, three unread notifications and a proxy that needs attention.

A health badge is hidden while a service is fine, so a working Stackyard shows no badges at all. See Badges.

Is Stackyard for you?

Stackyard is a good fit if

You want a launcher first. The dashboard’s job is to get you into your apps, and to tell you when one is unhealthy.
You configure things in a web UI. There is no YAML file to hand-edit.
You look at the dashboard many times a day. It is designed to stay calm at that frequency rather than to impress once.
You want values from your own services on the tiles, without waiting for someone to write a widget for them.
You want it to install to a phone home screen and work in six languages, right to left included.
Accessibility matters to you. Stackyard is built to WCAG 2.2 level AA. See Accessibility.

Another dashboard is a better fit if

You want a metrics dashboard. Stackyard shows current values, not history, and it does not alert. It sits next to a monitoring stack rather than replacing one.
You want configuration as code. State lives in a single JSON file that the web UI writes. You can export and import it, but it is not designed to be hand-edited or templated in a Git repository.
You need user accounts. There is one admin password and one shared dashboard per instance. For a separate dashboard per person, room or site, run separate instances and link them with the Dashboard switch widget. See Security.
You want a plugin ecosystem. The widget set is fixed, plus a Custom widget that embeds any web page.

Switching

Stackyard imports apps and folders from Homepage and Dashy files. See Import.