@beccaowen thank you! Hope you like them 😊

On a more personal note, this update has been the hardest I’ve worked on so far. There was a few times where I wasn’t sure I could deliver it. I burnt out back in December and had to take a month off. But I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out, and I hope you all do too! It lays out some pretty important foundations for things to come and should make certain updates a lot easier. Onwards!

#BuildInPublic #indiedev https://indieapps.space/@sequel/114744124805139559

@Joekw I need to look into this more but at least when I tried earlier, the files listed changed from one build attempt to another, with quite a few listed. Probably should check again with a clear head tomorrow

@AlexHadfield I looked and there wasn’t anything obvious… although I’m not particularly skilled at deciphering them so who knows 😅

@Joekw the error is on the whole project so I wouldn’t even know where to start 😅

What are you supposed to do if your project doesn’t compile with Xcode 26 with a non-descript “Command SwiftCompile failed with a nonzero exit code” error that seemingly points at nothing specific?

@viticci Right here with you! Forget about the headphone jack, if Apple had true courage, they would keep the beta 1 icon!

@invisibit Sequel 2.5 lays the groundwork for switching to a better books data source actually. Although none of the data sources I’ve found so far are perfect and all have significant downsides. Combining sources in search is also not really an option as it would mean many duplicated results… it’s still high on my list but isn’t an easy fix for reasons that are outside of my control 😅

@leoncowle would love to know what you think!

Mark the date! @sequel 2.5 drops June 25th! Want an early look? The beta is live now on TestFlight. 🎉

This update is all about giving you more control. The new features are built around the way you like to track, browse, and catch up on your media.

If you’re excited, sharing this post really helps get the word out and it means a lot 🙌

https://testflight.apple.com/join/JrbjT6BU

@averyvine it is the biggest update I’ve ever worked on after all! 😁

@ollie IGDB. But that’s probably on me. I think I changed that logic in 2.5 so it doesn’t stay stuck on early access dates. I don’t quite remember tbh 😅

The last two noteworthy features and improvements in @sequel 2.5 are:
1. A new automatic backup system which runs quietly in the background
2. iCloud sync being up to 240x faster (yes, really)!

If you’re curious, the latter was partly achieved by switching to CKSyncEngine from NSPersistentCloudKitContainer, and re-architecting the database to get around CloudKit’s limitations and… quirks. This required a complete rewrite of the sync engine and literally months of work!

And on top of this, @sequel will use @trakt for its episodes’ release dates. Not only are they going to be more accurate, but they’ll indicate a release time so you’ll know exactly when you can watch an episode 😊

A little less visually exciting, but oh so convenient, @sequel 2.5 will feature new preferences for episodes notifications.

1. Be alerted as the episode releases or a few minutes before.
2. Be notified for every episodes, or just seasons premieres and finales (perfect if you like to binge entire seasons).
3. Only get alerts for series you’re caught up on (i.e. you’ve watched the last available episode). A great way to reduce the amount of notifications you get!

Hope you’ll enjoy that one! 😊

@axiixc oh I’ve not played with TextRenderer yet, I’ll have a look. I’m visualising some kind of progressive shimmer effect like a wave that translates the text. But I’ll settle for a crossfade 🙃

@axiixc What I have in mind is a Text view than can automatically translate but with a way to flip back to the original text and/or an indication it was translated. I’m planning on doing this myself but something built-in could be quite delightful.

Please please please make automatic-translation an API developers can use! It would make localizing Sequel so much easier!

https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/03/exclusive-ios-26-messages-carplay-more/

@imjackspears not something I’ve considered but it would be trickier to do than it seems 😅 Will take a note of the idea though!

@matheusbs those are Collections. You create them to suit your needs. It won’t pull anything automatically but you can add items to it and choose how you visualise them.