Room to write it out properly.

Some parts of a manifestation practice do not belong on a phone. Long-form journalling, scripting a future ordinary day, arranging a large vision board — those want a keyboard and a big screen. That is what the Mac app is for.

Manifestly on a MacBook showing a full-screen 2026 vision board, beside an iPhone with the gratitude journal

What Manifestly does best on Mac

A full-size vision board canvas

Twenty images arranged the way you want them, at a size where you can actually judge the composition.

Long-form writing

Scripting and monthly reviews want a keyboard. A distraction-free writing view and nothing else on screen.

Your affirmation, a click away

It lives in the menu bar. No app to switch to, no phone to pick up and get lost in.

The four practices on Mac

Gratitude, affirmations, vision board and identity — one tab each, and this is what every one of them looks like on Mac.

A gratitude journal with a real keyboard

Some entries want more than three lines. On Mac the journal gives you a proper writing surface for the long end-of-week reflection, or the entry you did not know you needed to write until you started.

Typing speed matters more than it sounds: entries written on a keyboard are consistently longer and more specific than the ones thumbed out on a phone. Dictation and photo attachments work here too.

  • Long-form writing with a full keyboard
  • Type or dictate with speech-to-text
  • Photos alongside your text
  • Read back a whole month in one window
The Manifestly gratitude journal on a Mac

Your daily affirmation, on the desk where you work

Same single circle and counter, at the size of your display. Left open on a second monitor or a spare desktop, it is a reminder that does not require picking up your phone — which is usually where a reminder turns into forty minutes of scrolling.

Tap to count a repetition, or change the words from the same library of 1,000+ affirmations across eight life areas.

  • Tap to affirm at full screen size
  • 1,000+ affirmations across 8 life areas
  • Keep it open beside your work
  • No ads and no account
The affirmation screen in Manifestly on a Mac

Your vision board, full screen and undistracted

Upload the vision board you already have and let it fill the display. No browser tabs around it, no notifications on top of it — just the thing you are working toward, at a size you cannot skim past.

This is the version of a vision board that works: not an afternoon of making one, but a minute of looking at it, most days, for a year.

  • Upload your existing board or image
  • Full-screen, distraction-free viewing
  • A minute of focus, not an editing session
  • Free plan includes 5 vision boards
A vision board image displayed full screen in Manifestly on a Mac

Identity cards, reviewed properly

Identity work rewards sitting down with it. On Mac you can read every card you have written together, rewrite the ones that have gone stale, and add the one you have been circling for a month.

You define the identity — the title, the description, what it means. It is the reflective end of the practice rather than the daily tap.

  • Define your own identity, in your own words
  • All your cards in one window
  • Rewrite and add cards with a keyboard
  • Free plan includes 3 identity cards
Identity cards in Manifestly on a Mac

Protect your manifestation journey with Touch ID or a passcode

A Mac is usually the device other people look over your shoulder at — in an office, at a kitchen table, on a call where you are sharing your screen. A lock on the journal is worth having.

Most MacBooks support Touch ID rather than Face ID, so that is what Manifestly uses where it is available. Behind it, as on every platform, is a four-digit passcode — which is also the answer on a Mac mini or an external keyboard without a sensor.

  • Touch ID on MacBooks and keyboards that have it
  • A four-digit passcode on every Mac, sensor or not
  • Locks before anything appears on a shared screen
  • Nothing leaves the machine either way
The Manifestly passcode lock screen on a Mac, asking for a four-digit PIN

What a desk gives you

Most of the daily practice happens on your phone. Mac is where the longer, slower part of it goes — the writing and the looking back.

Write more than you would thumb out

Entries written on a keyboard are consistently longer and more specific. For scripting or a proper end-of-week reflection, that is the whole difference.

Your vision board, nothing around it

No tabs, no notifications on top of it. At this size you finally notice that three images are saying the same thing and one is carrying the board.

Read the month in one sitting

Scroll a month of entries in one window. This is the step almost everyone skips, and it is where the practice pays out.

An affirmation you do not pick up a phone for

Keep it open on a spare desktop. A reminder that costs you nothing, rather than one that turns into forty minutes of scrolling.

The Mac app is in App Store review. The iPhone and iPad app is free today, and your practice carries across when it lands.

Questions about Manifestly on Mac

Is the Mac app available now?

It is in App Store review. The iPhone and iPad app is available today, and the Mac app will appear on the same App Store listing when review completes.

What macOS version will it need?

macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Will it cost extra?

No. It is the same free app and the same account — Premium lifts limits and adds iCloud sync; details are in the app and on the features page.

Will my iPhone entries be there?

Yes. Your journal, boards, affirmations and identity cards sync across devices, encrypted on-device before they leave.

Can I keep my vision board open while I work?

Yes. Open it full screen on a spare desktop or a second display and it stays there, which is the closest thing to having it pinned above your desk.

Start on iPhone today, sit down with it on Mac later.

The iPhone and iPad app is free on the App Store now, and Mac joins the same listing shortly.