HelixNotes vs HomelabGlance

HelixNotes is a private, open-source Markdown notes app. Your notes remain standard Markdown files under your control. No account is required, and HelixNotes has no company-operated cloud. Write with a clean visual editor or switch to source mode when you want direct access to the Markdown. Organize your work with notebooks, tags, wiki links and full-text search. Features include: • Tasks collected from checklists across your notes • List and calendar views with priorities and due dates • Wiki links and an interactive graph view • Daily notes with a built-in calendar • Markdown tables, code blocks and syntax highlighting • KaTeX mathematical notation and Mermaid diagrams • Outline navigation and tag autocomplete • Version history and automatic backups • Light, dark and customizable themes • Optional WebDAV sync with your own server • Optional AI tools using your own provider Nothing leaves your device unless you enable a feature that connects to an external service. Your notes stay readable outside HelixNotes, without a proprietary format or platform lock-in. HelixNotes is free software released under the GNU AGPLv3. Its source code is publicly available on GitLab.

Homelab Glance is a native dashboard for the self-hosted server you already run. It reads from the open-source "glance" aggregator and shows your containers, media, downloads, and storage at a glance — on your Home Screen, in widgets, in a Live Activity, and in a Mac menu-bar app. There's no Homelab Glance account and no cloud. The app talks only to the glance server on your own hardware. Point it at your server once and everything appears. AUTO-DETECTED SERVICES Rich cards for the apps it recognizes — Jellyfin, Sonarr, Radarr, and more — and clean generic cards for everything else, built from what's actually running. WIDGETS & LIVE ACTIVITY A configurable at-a-glance view for Home Screen and Lock Screen, plus a Live Activity that tracks a download or job from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. CONTAINER CONTROLS Start, stop, and restart containers from the app — gated behind a separate control token you set, so read-only and control access stay distinct. ON YOUR MAC The same dashboard in a menu-bar app, one click away. SIRI & SHORTCUTS Actions are App Intents, so your homelab is scriptable and Siri-accessible. TRY IT WITHOUT A SERVER Demo mode is on by default with sample data, so you can explore the whole app before connecting. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Homelab Glance collects nothing. Your server address and tokens stay in your device's Keychain and traffic goes straight to your own machine — over your LAN or securely over Tailscale. The aggregator it talks to is open-source and self-hosted by you.