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Getting Friday

Download Friday (a 233 MB disk image). It needs a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) and macOS 14 or later.
Open Friday-0.3.0.dmg from your Downloads, and drag Friday onto the Applications folder beside it.
Open Friday from Applications.

Opening Friday the first time

Friday isn't signed by Apple yet, so macOS stops it the first time with a message that it can't check Friday for malicious software. To open it:

In the message, click Done.
Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll down to Security. You'll see "Friday was blocked to protect your Mac".
Click Open Anyway, then Open Anyway again in the window that follows, and enter your Mac's password.

You only do this once. After that Friday opens like any other app.

Installing from Terminal instead

To skip that message, open Terminal (in Applications → Utilities), paste this line and press Return:

curl -fsSL https://friday-scheduler.com/install.sh | sh

It downloads the same Friday, checks that it’s exactly the file this site published, puts it in your Applications folder and opens it. macOS only asks about apps a web browser downloaded, so there’s nothing to allow. If you’re updating, quit Friday first; your data stays where it is. You can read the script before you run it.

The first time it opens

Friday walks you through a town from waking up to going to bed, with a few questions on the way: when you get up and go to bed, when you eat, when you're in class or at work. Your answers become your first week's plan. It takes about two minutes; you can skip it and keep Friday's guesses, and change anything later in Settings.

After that, a short list of quests shows you around: adding a to-do, finding where Friday put it, starting work, the Inbox and rules.

Adding what you have to do

Type it the way you'd say it in the box at the top of the To-do page: essay 3h due fri, read chapter 4 1h due tomorrow. Friday plans it into your week at once.

Your calendars

Friday asks to see your Mac's calendars the first time it opens; choose which ones it reads in Settings → Calendars. A calendar feed (an .ics link from your school or work) is added in Settings → Integrations. Google Calendar and Gmail are coming to the download soon.

Connecting an AI

In Settings → Integrations → AI, choose the AI you use: the claude command if you have it, an API key from Claude, OpenAI or Gemini, or a model running on your Mac. Without one, everything works except asking in words.

Where your data is

Everything Friday knows is in ~/Library/Application Support/Friday on your Mac, with a backup made every day in its backups folder. Nothing is kept anywhere else.

Updating

For now, download the new version from this site and drag it onto Applications, replacing the old one; your data stays where it is. Soon Friday will tell you itself when there's a new version, and what's new in it.

Removing Friday

Quit Friday, drag it from Applications to the Bin, and, if you want your data gone too, delete ~/Library/Application Support/Friday.