diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 79def17..627fa46 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ struct ContentView: View {
 
 ```swift
 class Bot: LLM {
-    convenience init?() async {
+    convenience init?(_ update: @escaping (Double) -> Void) async {
         let systemPrompt = "You are a sentient AI with emotions."
         let model = HuggingFaceModel("TheBloke/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-GGUF", .Q2_K, template: .chatML(systemPrompt))
-        try? await self.init(from: model)
+        try? await self.init(from: model) { progress in update(progress) }
     }
 }
 
@@ -72,16 +72,24 @@ class Bot: LLM {
 
 struct ContentView: View {
     @State var bot: Bot? = nil
+    @State var progress: CGFloat = 0
+    func updateProgress(_ progress: Double) {
+        Task { await MainActor.run { self.progress = CGFloat(progress) } }
+    }
     var body: some View {
         if let bot {
             BotView(bot)
         } else {
-            ProgressView().padding()
-            Text("(loading huggingface model...)").opacity(0.2)
-                .onAppear() { Task {
-                    let bot = await Bot()
-                    await MainActor.run { self.bot = bot }
-                } }
+            ProgressView(value: progress) {
+                Text("loading huggingface model...")
+            } currentValueLabel: {
+                Text(String(format: "%.2f%%", progress * 100))
+            }
+            .padding()
+            .onAppear() { Task {
+                let bot = await Bot(updateProgress)
+                await MainActor.run { self.bot = bot }
+            } }
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/Sources/LLM/LLM.swift b/Sources/LLM/LLM.swift
index c7563de..fffd3b2 100644
--- a/Sources/LLM/LLM.swift
+++ b/Sources/LLM/LLM.swift
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ open class LLM: ObservableObject {
     private var stopSequenceLength: Int
     private var params: llama_context_params
     private var isFull = false
+    private var updateProgress: (Double) -> Void = { _ in }
     
     public init(
         from path: String,
@@ -131,9 +132,12 @@ open class LLM: ObservableObject {
         topP: Float = 0.95,
         temp: Float = 0.8,
         historyLimit: Int = 8,
-        maxTokenCount: Int32 = 2048
+        maxTokenCount: Int32 = 2048,
+        updateProgress: @escaping (Double) -> Void = { print(String(format: "downloaded(%.2f%%)", $0 * 100)) }
     ) async throws {
-        let url = try await huggingFaceModel.download(to: url, as: name)
+        let url = try await huggingFaceModel.download(to: url, as: name) { progress in
+            Task { await MainActor.run { updateProgress(progress) } }
+        }
         self.init(
             from: url,
             template: huggingFaceModel.template,
@@ -145,6 +149,7 @@ open class LLM: ObservableObject {
             historyLimit: historyLimit,
             maxTokenCount: maxTokenCount
         )
+        self.updateProgress = updateProgress
     }
     
     public convenience init(
@@ -578,6 +583,7 @@ public enum Quantization: String {
 public enum HuggingFaceError: Error {
     case network(statusCode: Int)
     case noFilteredURL
+    case urlIsNilForSomeReason
 }
 
 public struct HuggingFaceModel {
@@ -616,17 +622,16 @@ public struct HuggingFaceModel {
         return nil
     }
     
-    public func download(to directory: URL = .documentsDirectory, as name: String? = nil) async throws -> URL {
+    public func download(to directory: URL = .documentsDirectory, as name: String? = nil, _ updateProgress: @escaping (Double) -> Void) async throws -> URL {
         var destination: URL
         if let name {
             destination = directory.appending(path: name)
-            guard !destination.exists else { return destination }
+            guard !destination.exists else { updateProgress(1); return destination }
         }
         guard let downloadURL = try await getDownloadURL() else { throw HuggingFaceError.noFilteredURL }
         destination = directory.appending(path: downloadURL.lastPathComponent)
         guard !destination.exists else { return destination }
-        let data = try await downloadURL.getData()
-        try data.write(to: destination)
+        try await downloadURL.downloadData(to: destination, updateProgress)
         return destination
     }
     
@@ -651,6 +656,24 @@ extension URL {
         guard statusCode / 100 == 2 else { throw HuggingFaceError.network(statusCode: statusCode) }
         return data
     }
+    fileprivate func downloadData(to destination: URL, _ updateProgress: @escaping (Double) -> Void) async throws {
+        var observation: NSKeyValueObservation!
+        let url: URL = try await withCheckedThrowingContinuation { continuation in
+            let task = URLSession.shared.downloadTask(with: self) { url, response, error in
+                if let error { return continuation.resume(throwing: error) }
+                guard let url else { return continuation.resume(throwing: HuggingFaceError.urlIsNilForSomeReason) }
+                let statusCode = (response as! HTTPURLResponse).statusCode
+                guard statusCode / 100 == 2 else { return continuation.resume(throwing: HuggingFaceError.network(statusCode: statusCode)) }
+                continuation.resume(returning: url)
+            }
+            observation = task.progress.observe(\.fractionCompleted) { progress, _ in
+                updateProgress(progress.fractionCompleted)
+            }
+            task.resume()
+        }
+        let _ = observation
+        try FileManager.default.moveItem(at: url, to: destination)
+    }
 }
 
 package extension String {
diff --git a/Tests/LLMTests/LLMTests.swift b/Tests/LLMTests/LLMTests.swift
index 0ec93e4..a426487 100644
--- a/Tests/LLMTests/LLMTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/LLMTests/LLMTests.swift
@@ -207,14 +207,14 @@ final class LLMTests: XCTestCase {
     }
     
     func testInferenceFromHuggingFaceModel() async throws {
-        var bot = try await LLM(from: model)
+        let bot = try await LLM(from: model)
         let input = "have you heard of this so-called LLM.swift library?"
         await bot.respond(to: input)
         #assert(!bot.output.isEmpty)
     }
     
     func testRecoveryFromLengtyInput() async throws {
-        var bot = try await LLM(from: model, maxTokenCount: 16)
+        let bot = try await LLM(from: model, maxTokenCount: 16)
         let input = "have you heard of this so-called LLM.swift library?"
         await bot.respond(to: input)
         #assert(bot.output == "tl;dr")