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Founder Hud and Tuple

Tuple is a remote pairing app for developers. Founder Hud is a menu bar app for small teams on Macs: presence, calls that ring, screen sharing with sound and meeting notes. Both keep small calls peer to peer and encrypted.

Facts about Tuple come from its own pages, read on 7 October 2026.

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Price
Founder HudFirst month free, then $5 per founder and $19 per active teammate a month (launch price)
Tuple$30 per user per month, with a 14-day free trial1
Runs on
Founder HudMacs with Apple Silicon
TuplemacOS and Windows; Linux in alpha; anyone can join a call from a browser12
Calls of 2 or 3
Founder HudDirectly between Macs, encrypted end to end and signed with a key on each Mac
TuplePeer to peer and encrypted end to end3
Larger calls
Founder Hud4 to 8 people through Cloudflare’s media servers, not end to end; the app marks these calls
TupleRelayed through Tuple’s media servers, encrypted end to end; the servers never have the keys3
Remote control
Founder HudYes, when the sharer allows it, over a direct connection
TupleYes4
Drawing on the share
Founder HudNamed cursors, pen, highlighter, box, arrow, comments and stickies
TupleDraw or type on a shared screen4
Shared screen quality
Founder HudUp to 3840 × 2160 at 30 fps; on a direct call each viewer picks the quality
TupleUp to 5K4
Transcripts
Founder HudWritten on each Mac with Apple’s SpeechAnalyzer; never on our servers
TupleA Whisper model on your computer; stored only on your machine3
People outside the team
Founder HudGuests by link, free (in development)
TuplePair with external collaborators for free1

Tuple

Where Tuple is better

  • More platforms

    Tuple runs on macOS and Windows, has Linux in alpha, and lets anyone join from a browser. Founder Hud is Mac only.12

  • End to end on larger calls

    From 4 people, Tuple still encrypts media end to end through its relays. Founder Hud’s calls of 4 to 8 go through media servers that can decrypt them.3

  • Outside collaborators, now

    Tuple lets you pair with external collaborators for free today. Founder Hud’s guests by link are in development.1

Founder Hud

What Founder Hud does differently

  • Pay for who was on a call

    Each month you pay $5 for each of your two founders and $19 for each teammate who started or joined a call, not for every member.

  • The whole team, all day

    Faces in the menu bar, a People page with a Call button, team chat and a chat for each call.

  • Notes after your calls

    Your computer writes a summary, the decisions and the to-dos, each with an owner. The to-dos go to the team’s list.

  • Sharing with sound

    A demo or a video plays with its sound for everyone on the call.

Which to pick

Pick Tuple if your team pairs on code across macOS, Windows or Linux.

Pick Founder Hud if your team is on Macs, talks many times a day, and wants presence, calls, sharing and notes in one menu bar app, paying only for who was on a call.

Sources

  1. tuple.app/pricing, read
  2. tuple.app/downloads, read
  3. tuple.app/security, read
  4. tuple.app, read

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