Write software in English

Englang is an app for iPhone and iPad. Tell an AI agent what you want, in plain English. It changes your website, builds your app or writes your documents. You keep the code, the files and the domain.

Watch the demo, 1:36

Coming soon to the App Store

Migrate your website: the address lindenandrye.com and an email address

The website in the app: the live website, one change on the draft and the Publish button

Agent conversation: the owner asks to add Sunday opening hours, and the agent says the draft is updated

One example, step by step

Move your website and change it, all on your iPhone

These are the screens you see in the app. The example is Linden & Rye, a small bakery with an old WordPress website.

1
Open Englang on your iPhone and tap Migrate your website. Type the address and your email. We need no password and no admin access.
2
We copy each public page, picture and page address into plain files, and compare the copy with the original. Then we email you a code, and the website is in your app.
3
Write or say what you want, in plain English. The agent changes the website and tells you what it did.
4
Each change goes to a private draft first. Open the draft, and tap Publish when it looks right. You can go back to an earlier version.
5
Set up shows what is left: back up the code to your GitHub and move the website to your Cloudflare. Each step is one button.
6
Your address now shows the website from your own Cloudflare account. We check the connection every hour.

The result on lindenandrye.com

The request in step 3 made three changes to the website:

1A notice at the top of the home page
2A short news post
3Sunday in the opening hours

The website now runs from the owner’s own Cloudflare account, with the code in their GitHub.

The Linden & Rye website after one request: a notice that it is open on Sundays, a news post and Sunday in the opening hours

Linden & Rye is a made-up bakery. The app screens are from an offline demo of the real app.

No vendor lock-in

You own the website, not us

We help you change your website, but we do not keep it. If you stop using Englang, the website keeps running.

Small changes without a developer

New opening hours or a new photo should not need an email to an agency and a week of waiting. You ask, you look at the draft, and you publish when you are happy with it.

Your code, your accounts

After the move, the code is in a Git repository in your GitHub, and the website and the domain are in your Cloudflare account. You can see the whole history and give someone else access.

Switch AI when you want

The website is plain files with their history. Another AI agent, or a developer you hire, can open it and continue.

Not another WordPress

No plugins to update and no admin login to protect. Many Englang projects are static websites in a Git repository that any tool or capable AI agent can read, understand and modify.

What you can make

Not only websites

Moving a website is one way to use Englang. You can also build an app with it: describe what the app should do, and the agent writes it. SPT and Our Sofia, two iPhone apps, were built this way.

Move an old website

Bring a WordPress or site-builder website. Change it by asking, and own the result.

See the example

Start a new website

Describe your business, your style and your pages. The agent makes a first version. Then you ask for changes until it is right.

Read the guides

Build an app

Describe the screens and what they do. SPT and Our Sofia are iPhone apps made and kept up to date with Englang.

See the apps

Documents and presentations

Any project made of files: a report, a price list, a slide deck. Ask for a change and look at the result.

All features

In the app

Websites Workspaces Decisions Agents Results Projects Accounts & domains

Draft first.
Publish when ready

Each website has a draft and a live version. The agent changes the draft. You look at it, then publish. When you are ready, move the website to your own accounts.

More about websites

Move in the app: the draft and the live website are copied to your own Cloudflare account and checked — Move it to your Cloudflare

Domain in the app: lindenandrye.com and www.lindenandrye.com show the website from your Cloudflare account, with 8 records copied — Connect your domain

Choose where
the work runs

Your phone is where you give directions. The work runs in a workspace: a cloud workspace made for you, or a computer you already use.

More about workspaces

First screen of the app: Enter the code from your invitation, with Other ways to start below — Start with your invitation

Account screen with the signed-in demo account and the ready cloud workspace quiet-harbor — Your workspace, ready

It asks.
You decide

Turn an agent’s questions into a simple, guided form. Choose Answer questions to automatically detect the questions in a response, then work through them one at a time.

More about decisions

Answers sheet with the agent’s questions about the portfolio site, ready to answer one at a time — The questions, in one list

Guided answer with Quiet & minimal selected — Tap the choices that fit

Follow the work

Each agent works in a project. The list shows what each agent is doing and which one needs you. Open one to read the conversation and give the next direction.

More about agents

Agents list grouped under the projects portfolio-site, recipe-box and trip-planner, with one agent that needs an answer, one working and one finished — One home for your agents

Agent conversation with the portfolio brief, the work the agent did and its answer with a link to the page — From your brief to the result

Look at the work.
Not just the reply

Open what the agent made, directly from the conversation. Then read what changed and why, in plain words and pictures.

More about results

Rendered preview of the demo photography portfolio page, opened from the conversation — Open the page it made

Walkthrough page with tabs for purpose, changes, tests and risks, a before and after picture and a diagram of the page — A walkthrough in plain words

Work lives
in a project

A project is a Git repository with its files and its history. Create one in the app, then push it to a repository that you own.

More about projects

Projects list with the demo projects portfolio-site and recipe-box — A place for every idea

Project overview for portfolio-site with the sync actions and recent commits — Its history, ready to push

The code, the name
and the accounts are yours

Link your own GitHub, Cloudflare and Tailscale accounts. Keep the files in a repository that you own and give the project a domain of its own. If Englang disappeared tomorrow, you would still have what you built.

More about accounts & domains

Linked Accounts screen with GitHub, Tailscale and Cloudflare — Connect the accounts you own

Domains search results for smallhours with sample first-year prices — Find a name

Clients and apps

Built and maintained on Englang

The spt.fyi home page: Simple Public Transit, with the app icon and an App Store button

SPT on iPhone: a tram on the map with its next stops

SPT

spt.fyi

Public transport in Sofia and Zürich: nearby stops, departures, live vehicles and route planning.

iPhone app
Website

Powpark

powpark.com

Writing about technology, from how SPT was built to Ethereum.

Website

The oursofia.bg home page: Help improve Sofia, with App Store and Google Play buttons and a phone showing the map

Our Sofia

oursofia.bg

Sofia’s municipal reports on a map: browse, filter, follow and file new ones.

iPhone app
Android app
Website

The englang.ai home page: Write software in English, with three screens of the app on iPhone

Englang

englang.ai

The app itself, and this website.

iPhone and iPad app
Website

More to come

Before you start

Can I try Englang today?

Not yet from the App Store. The hosted iPhone and iPad path is a private pilot, and the is the way to hear when that changes.

Which websites can you move?

Most public websites: business websites, portfolios, blogs, and websites for restaurants, practices and local shops. WordPress works well. A website that needs a login, or that builds every page in the browser, may not work. If we cannot move your website, we tell you why.

What does not move?

Anything that needs a server: contact forms, search, comments, logins, member areas and shops. You can ask the agent to add a replacement, for example a form service. If your website is mainly a shop or a member area, Englang is not the right tool yet.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You describe what you want in plain English, by text or by voice. You still check each change before you publish it, and a complex project may need technical help.

What if I stop using Englang?

After the move, your website is in your own GitHub and Cloudflare accounts, on your domain. It keeps running without Englang, and another capable AI agent or a developer can continue the work.

Try it with your own website

Englang is in a private pilot. Join the waitlist, and we will email you once when it is in the App Store.

Further watching

Two people who put it better than we can

English as a programming language. The name comes from a post by Andrej Karpathy, and Andrew Ng makes the same point in a minute and a half.

Read our story

Screenshot of Andrej Karpathy’s post on X: The hottest new programming language is English. January 24, 2023. — Andrej Karpathy, January 24, 2023. The post the name comes from · View original

Write software in English