Each one is useful alone. Together they close a loop: the board shows you where, the card says who, the affirmations give it a voice, and the journal proves it is working.
One sentence on the screen and a counter underneath it. Tap the circle each time you mean it — affirm a vision, a dream, or the plain thing today needs — and the number climbs. Counting is what turns a nice quote into a practice you can see yourself keeping.
Manifestly is not another collage editor. Make your board wherever you like — Canva, Pinterest, paper and a camera — then upload the image and open it each morning. A board you never look at is a craft project; a board you return to daily is a practice, and the returning is the part apps usually leave out.
Three lines is a complete entry, and there are three ways to get them down: type it, dictate it and let speech-to-text write it for you, or add a photo from your library. On the nights when composing a sentence is more than you have left, saying it out loud still counts.
You define who you are, in your own words. A title — a sentence or a role — and a line underneath saying what it means on an ordinary day. No template to fill in and no quiz to take, which matters, because a self-concept someone else worded for you is the kind you argue with.
What you write in a manifestation app is more revealing than almost anything else on your phone. Manifestly is built so that we structurally cannot read it — not as a promise, as an architecture.
Your content is stored on your device. We do not operate servers that receive or hold it.
Lock the app with whatever your device supports. A four-digit passcode is always available as the fallback.
No advertising SDKs, no third-party analytics on your content, and nothing used to train models.
Turn it on and syncing happens inside your own iCloud account. We never see it.
Which also means: if you lose every device and your key, we genuinely cannot recover it. Keep an export.
Start an affirmation on your morning commute, expand on an idea during lunch, and journal at night in bed. Offline-ready and privately synced across all your devices.
The device that is with you when the difficult meeting starts. Dictate a journal entry while you walk, or tap an affirmation in a lift.
Dictate, photograph, tap to affirm
The same four practices with more room for each — your vision board at full size, journal entries as pages rather than boxes, and a screen you can leave propped up.
Universal with iPhone · A full page
A spacious writing surface for long reflections, your vision board at full screen, and complete keyboard navigation for undistracted focus.
Full-screen focus · A real keyboard
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Gratitude notes | 7 | Unlimited |
| Your saved affirmations | 5 | Unlimited |
| Vision boards | 5 | Unlimited |
| Identity cards | 3 | Unlimited |
| Affirmation library | All 1,000+ | All 1,000+ |
| Typing, dictation and photos | Included | Included |
| iCloud sync & backup | — | Included |
| Face ID / Touch ID / passcode | Included | Included |
Four practices in one place: a gratitude journal you can type, dictate or photograph into; a vision board you upload and return to daily; daily affirmations with a tap-to-affirm counter; and identity cards you write yourself. Around them sit the manifestation methods guides and optional iCloud sync.
Yes. Everything you write, clip or record is stored on your device first. The full journalling and affirmation practice works with no connection at all — on a flight, on a trail, or with airplane mode on deliberately. Changes reconcile the next time you are online.
Your entries are encrypted on-device before they leave it and synced through your private iCloud container. Manifestly’s servers never hold a readable copy, which also means we cannot recover your journal if you lose every device — so export backups matter.
Yes. Manifestly imports plain text and Markdown journals, CSV exports from most journalling apps, and images from your camera roll or a Pinterest board export. Everything you bring in stays encrypted like the rest.
Not at the moment. Manifestly runs on iPhone and iPad today, with the Mac app in App Store review.
Not yet. Manifestly is built natively for Apple platforms so it can keep everything on-device and sync through your own iCloud account. An Android version is on the roadmap — there is a waitlist on the apps page.
Begin your 14-day free journey today. No obligations, no pushy notifications — just an invitation to live with deep intention.
