Decently Fluent 0.1.7

Fixes for iPhone:

• Find a book could crash the app. Fixed.

• The reading-time choices in the guide wrapped one letter per line. They're now simple buttons.

• With a larger text size, the reader's text and Next button ran off the right edge. The page buttons now shorten to fit.

• The library's reading progress and the topic list in the guide line up properly at larger text sizes.

• My words says how close each word is to learned ("seen 2 of 4 times", "see it again on another day") instead of "seen 8/4".

• iPhone / iPad: decently-fluent.ipa (install with SideStep)

• Mac: decently-fluent-mac.dmg (signed and notarized)

Decently Fluent 0.1.5

Fixes:

• On an iPhone, tapping a book in Recommended books opened a blank page. It now opens the book's page.

• "A chapter fits in one sitting (about 1 minute)" instead of "1 minutes".

• iPhone / iPad: decently-fluent.ipa (install with SideStep)

• Mac: decently-fluent-mac.dmg (signed and notarized)

Decently Fluent 0.1.4

Recommended books is now a button on the home page, "Recommended books (already prepared for you)". It opens an easy-to-read list, grouped by language, of books whose first pages are already written. A book you already have offers Continue reading instead of downloading it again.

Level menu marks the levels whose next pages are already written (a ticked box) and those the AI will write (an hourglass).

Landscape: tap a sentence on the English side to highlight it and its translation.

On the Mac: a pencil button to delete books, right-click to mark a word known, and text size buttons (⌘− / ⌘+).

• iPhone / iPad: decently-fluent.ipa (install with SideStep)
• Mac: decently-fluent-mac.dmg (signed and notarized)

Decently Fluent 0.1.3

Recommended books, ready to read. A new section on the home page lists the most recommended books for English speakers learning French or German. Their opening pages are already written at A1, A2 and B1, so they open straight away.

Book descriptions. Every book the guide recommends now has a short English description, in the lists and on the book page.

Cleaner books. Publisher notes, printing lines and contents lists at the start of Gutenberg books are skipped.

New icon, easier to read at small sizes.

• iPhone / iPad: decently-fluent.ipa (install with SideStep)
• Mac: decently-fluent-mac.dmg (signed and notarized)

Decently Fluent 0.1.2

• Progress while a page is written: a bar, how many paragraphs are done and roughly how long is left, so you can see it isn't stuck.

• Reading progress in your library: a bar and "Chapter 3 of 11 · 24%".

• Dark or light pages button beside show/hide new words.

• New words are also marked faintly in the side column.

• Tap a sentence to shade it in both columns; on iPhone the level menu is under the chapter heading.

• Larger Next button in the book guide.

• iPhone / iPad: decently-fluent.ipa via SideStep, AltStore, SideStore or Sideloadly. Requires iOS 17.

• Mac: decently-fluent-mac.dmg, signed and notarized.

Decently Fluent 0.1.1

On iPhone the reader's toolbar now fits: the book title (tap it for the chapters), show/hide new words and the level all stay visible. The page buttons stay on one line.

• iPhone / iPad: decently-fluent.ipa via SideStep, AltStore, SideStore or Sideloadly. Requires iOS 17.
• Mac: decently-fluent-mac.dmg, signed and notarized.

Decently Fluent 0.1.0

First release of Decently Fluent, a graded reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Read classic books from Project Gutenberg, or your own EPUB, PDF or text files, rewritten at your CEFR level (A1–C1, or Native) in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian, with your own language beside it. Published human translations are used instead of machine translation where Gutenberg has them.

• iPhone / iPad: install decently-fluent.ipa with SideStep (search for Decently Fluent), AltStore, SideStore or Sideloadly. Requires iOS 17.
• Mac: decently-fluent-mac.dmg, signed and notarized (Apple silicon and Intel).

Rewriting needs your own Claude or DeepSeek API key, entered in Settings.

Pre-written pages

The opening pages of the most recommended books, already written at A1, A2 and B1 for English speakers learning French or German. The app downloads a book's file when it is added, and index.json lists what is ready. Made with tools/ in the repo (Pregenerated.swift).

One-click installer (SideStep Wizard)

Mac app that installs SideStep, gets your iPhone or iPad ready, then installs Decently Fluent. Linked from the app's web page. Not an app update — the app itself is in the latest numbered release.