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Your own start page: news, weather, markets and Reddit on one calm page, with no algorithm

Glance is one small program that builds a personal homepage from a single text file. You pick the sources, it shows the newest first, and there's no feed deciding what you see.

25 minBeginnerTools: FreeStep 1 free
Tested 9 Oct 2026 · Glance 0.8.6 (official Windows zip), Edge 154, Windows 11
A homepage at 127.0.0.1:7134 with London weather, UK news, the FTSE, Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub releases, bookmarks and a calendar
An optional second page of new YouTube uploads from channels you choose, with no recommendations
Our ready-made, UK-flavoured glance.yml to download and change
  • A page that loads in about a second, uses around 21MB of memory and starts by itself when you sign in
Before you start
  • A Windows, Mac or Linux computer
  • About 20MB of disk space
  • No account, no payment, no admin rights
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STEP 01 of 06~3 min

Download Glance

Glance is a single file with nothing to install, so it's easy to try and easy to remove.

  1. On Windows, open PowerShell and paste these lines. They make a glance folder in your user folder, download the official Windows version from Glance's GitHub releases ↗, and unzip it:

    Windows (PowerShell)
    mkdir $HOME\glance
cd $HOME\glance
Invoke-WebRequest https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/releases/download/v0.8.6/glance-windows-amd64.zip -OutFile glance.zip
Expand-Archive glance.zip -DestinationPath .
Remove-Item glance.zip
.\glance.exe --version
    Output
    v0.8.6

  2. That's the whole install: one file called glance.exe, about 16MB, from a 6.5MB zip. On a Mac or Linux, use Terminal instead:

    Mac (Apple silicon)
    mkdir ~/glance && cd ~/glance
curl -L -o glance.tar.gz https://github.com/glanceapp/glance/releases/download/v0.8.6/glance-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
tar -xzf glance.tar.gz
./glance --version
    TipOn an Intel Mac, swap darwin-arm64 for darwin-amd64. On Linux, use linux-amd64 (or linux-arm64 on a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5). A newer version may be out by the time you read this: the releases page ↗ always has the latest.
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Checkpoint.\glance.exe --version (or ./glance --version) prints a version number.
If it breaks'.\glance.exe' is not recognised
'.\glance.exe' is not recognised
You're in the wrong folder. Run cd $HOME\glance first, then try again. dir should list glance.exe.
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