# Download and install

Founder Hud runs on Macs with Apple Silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 26 Tahoe or later. It is one app in your menu bar, with no Dock icon.

## Requirements

| What    | Needs                                                     |
| ------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Mac     | Apple Silicon (M1 or later). Intel Macs aren't supported. |
| macOS   | macOS 26 Tahoe or later                                   |
| Sign-in | A Founder Hud account                                     |

## Install

<Steps>
  <Step title="Download">
    Invited testers download Founder Hud from the download page we send them. The download is a zip file.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Move it to Applications">
    Unzip it, move Founder Hud into your Applications folder, and open it.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Follow the welcome">
    The welcome walks you through signing in, your team and the [permissions](/docs/permissions) Founder Hud asks for. You can skip any step and come back to it from Settings > Help > Guide > Show welcome again.
  </Step>
  <Step title="Find it in the menu bar">
    Click the Founder Hud icon in the menu bar to open the window. Your teammates' faces appear beside the icon once they're online.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Gatekeeper

Every release is signed with our Developer ID (Lowside Labs, Inc.) and notarized by Apple. The first time you open it, macOS asks whether to open an app downloaded from the internet. Click Open.

## Updates

Founder Hud checks for updates with Sparkle, which reads the list of releases from downloads.founderhud.com. When there is a new version, Founder Hud downloads it and installs it with no click, between calls, once you have been away from the Mac for ten minutes. While it waits, a dot shows on your face at the top right of the panel: click your face and choose Restart to update to install it now. During a call, Restart to update is dimmed, and it comes back 20 seconds after the call ends.

To check now, right-click the menu bar icon and choose Check for updates, or use the button at the bottom of Settings.

Each release keeps the same signature, so the permissions you granted carry over to every update.