Asked often. Answered honestly.

Anyone beginning a chapter in Paris: new arrivals, people preparing a move, long-planned retirements, trailing spouses, sabbatical-takers. It was made first for the founder’s mother — 70, newly arrived, starting from bonjour — so it’s unhurried by design. If most apps feel like they’re shouting, this one is for you.

No. Every phrase comes with its meaning and pronunciation written in plain letters — Bonjour, une baguette, s’il vous plaît arrives ready to say aloud. Already conversational? Antoine calibrates to your level and nudges you a shade braver over time.

A short ritual: the date in French, a greeting, one quote with translation, one song, one journal invitation — and one quest: a real outing with curated addresses, the phrases to use, a map link, and a gentler alternative for tired days. Then the app is done for the day, on purpose. The full walkthrough is here.

The year continues. The first hundred days are the authored arc — arrival, settling, exploring. Beyond that, L’Aube increasingly composes your days from what your own journal has taught it: seasons returning, unfinished corners of the city, anniversaries of small wins.

Many long-time residents use it to re-court the city — the trails and Ask Antoine don’t care when you arrived. But the first months of the arc assume some newness; if you’ve been here a decade you’ll skim some early rituals.

Paris is home base, by design — every neighborhood ritual assumes a Paris address. The trails include 37 train destinations across France for weekends and longer stays. Other home cities may come later; Paris comes first, done properly.

If you can read a message and tap a button, you’re equipped. During setup you tell L’Aube how you feel about phones, and it writes its occasional “tech moments” accordingly — one small step at a time, no jargon, nothing assumed.

Your most recent day stays readable offline, so a métro tunnel won’t take your morning away. Writing new days, Ask Antoine, and trail plans need a connection.

Seven days, every feature, no limitations. Apple bills you only if you keep it past day seven. Cancel before then and you pay nothing — and you keep access until the trial’s end.

On your iPhone: Settings → your name → Subscriptions → L’Aube → Cancel. It takes under a minute and we don’t make you “chat with retention” first. Your access runs to the end of the period you paid for.

If you’re committed to the year, annual costs $79.99 — about $6.67 a month, a third less than monthly. If you’re still deciding whether Paris is your chapter, start monthly; you can switch to annual in the App Store at any time.

Purchases run through Apple, so refunds do too: reportaproblem.apple.com handles requests, usually within a day or two. If something in the app went wrong, tell us too — we’d rather fix it than argue.

Because free apps sell something else — usually your attention or your data. L’Aube writes your days fresh with real AI work, keeps a hand-curated Paris catalog, and answers to exactly one constituency: subscribers. The price is the promise.