# Founder Hud

> Founder Hud is a Mac app for small teams: presence in the menu bar, calls that ring, screen sharing with sound, drawing on a share together, and meeting notes written on each Mac. It runs on macOS 26 on Apple Silicon.

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## Get started

- [What Founder Hud is](https://founderhud.com/docs/introduction.md): A Mac app in the menu bar for small teams: who's online, calls that ring, screen sharing with sound, and notes after each call.
- [Download and install](https://founderhud.com/docs/install.md): Install Founder Hud on a Mac with Apple Silicon and macOS 26, and how updates arrive.
- [Permissions](https://founderhud.com/docs/permissions.md): What Founder Hud asks macOS for, why, and what stops working without each permission.
- [Your team](https://founderhud.com/docs/your-team.md): How signing in works, who is on your team, and what is coming for guests.

## Calls

- [Presence](https://founderhud.com/docs/presence.md): Who's online, away or in a call, in the menu bar and on People, and how Away works.
- [Calls that ring](https://founderhud.com/docs/calls.md): Start a call, answer with Accept or Decline, and use the call window.
- [Calls of 4 to 8](https://founderhud.com/docs/larger-calls.md): How calls of 4 or more people go through Cloudflare's media servers, and why Founder Hud marks them as not end-to-end.
- [Connection quality and the test call](https://founderhud.com/docs/connection.md): Read the route and quality labels on a call, how relays help on strict networks, and test your setup alone.

## Screen sharing

- [Share your screen with sound](https://founderhud.com/docs/screen-sharing.md): Share a window, an app or a whole display with its sound, keep private apps out, and tune it for video or text.
- [Viewing a share](https://founderhud.com/docs/viewing-a-share.md): A teammate's screen in the call window, picking the quality you watch in, and the call chat beside the share.
- [Point, draw, comment and stickies](https://founderhud.com/docs/annotation.md): Cursors with names, drawing, boxes, comments, cursor chat and stickies on a shared screen, and how long each mark stays.
- [Toys](https://founderhud.com/docs/toys.md): Confetti, a sword, stickers, a hammer and ducks to throw at a teammate's shared screen, and how the sharer turns them off.
- [Remote control](https://founderhud.com/docs/remote-control.md): Ask to drive a teammate's computer while they share, and how the sharer allows it, limits it and takes it back.

## After the call

- [Transcripts and meeting notes](https://founderhud.com/docs/meeting-notes.md): Turn on a transcript in a call, what your Mac writes when the call ends, and where transcripts and notes are kept.

## Privacy and security

- [Encryption and your data](https://founderhud.com/docs/security.md): End-to-end encryption on direct calls, safety numbers, what goes through Cloudflare, and what your team's hub keeps.

## Reference

- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://founderhud.com/docs/keyboard-shortcuts.md): Every shortcut for calls, the call window, drawing and toys, windows and search.
- [Troubleshooting](https://founderhud.com/docs/troubleshooting.md): Fixes for no audio, a share you can't see, permissions after an update, firewalls, and sign-in errors.
- [Pricing and billing](https://founderhud.com/docs/billing.md): Your team's first month is free, then $5 per founder and $19 per teammate a month, for active people only. Who counts as active, and what guests cost.
- [Use your agent with Founder Hud](https://founderhud.com/docs/agents.md): Install hud to read team to-dos, retrieve and publish artifacts, and send requested messages from your coding agent.