Skip this step if you already have a working installation of Anaconda or Miniconda, but make sure to keep your conda installation up-to-date: conda update -n base conda.

You need the python package manager Anaconda to install Activity Browser. You can install the full Anaconda user interface (navigator) or just the minimal command-line installer, Miniconda. If needed, see also the conda user guide or the Conda cheat sheet.

The Activity Browser has many dependencies that are managed by the conda-forge channel. Open a cmd-window or terminal (in Windows you may have to use the Anaconda prompt) and type the following:

conda config --prepend channels conda-forge

You can now install Activity Browser by creating a python environment (ab)

Depending on your computer and internet connection, it can take a while for this to complete. You will need to confirm that you really want to install the environment.

conda create -n ab -c conda-forge activity-browser

To run Activity Browser, you need to activate your environment with conda activate ab and then run activity browser with activity-browser.

Congratulations! You've started Activity Browser for the first time!

We recommend to regularly update Activity Browser to receive new features & bugfixes. These commands will update the Activity Browser and all of its dependencies in the conda environment called ab.

conda activate ab
conda update activity-browser