Quick start
About five minutes from sign-up to your first notification.
- Sign in with an email link or GitHub. The setup guide opens straight after your first sign-in and ticks each step off for you.
- Install the app on your phone. On iPhone, open the site in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; iOS only delivers notifications to the installed app. On Android, use the install prompt.
- Turn on notifications in the setup guide.
- Install the helper on the machine that runs your jobs (macOS or Linux):
curl -fsSL https://beckoncli.com/install.sh | sh
- Sign the helper in:
beckon login
It prints a link and a code; approve it in the browser. - Pair your phone. In Settings → Devices & Hosts tap Pair, run
beckon pair, and check that both screens show the same six words. - Check it:
beckon doctorsends a test notification. - Use it:
beckon run -- claude(or any command).
Questions? See the FAQ or the install page.