Manifest anywhere
On the train, in a waiting room, in the five minutes before a meeting. The moments you already have are enough to keep a practice alive.
What Manifestly does best on iPhone
Everything in one tap
Four practices, four tabs, no setup. Open the app and you are already where you meant to be.
Yours alone
Your phone is the most personal thing you own, and what you write here stays on it. Premium adds Face ID, Touch ID or a passcode lock.
The four practices on iPhone
Gratitude, affirmations, vision board and identity — one tab each, and this is what every one of them looks like on iPhone.
A gratitude journal app that meets you where the day ends
Tap +, write the line, done. Entries are dated and stacked newest-first, so a month of small good things is one scroll away whenever you need reminding that it went better than you remember.
Too tired to type? Say it out loud and speech-to-text writes it down for you. Or add a photo from your library — sometimes the picture of the meal, the view or the dog is the entry.
- Type or dictate with speech-to-text
- Add photos from your library, or take one now
- Entries dated automatically, newest first
- Stored on your iPhone, not on a server
Daily affirmations for wherever you happen to be standing
One sentence in a circle, and a count of how many times you have meant it. Tap the circle and the number goes up. That is the entire interaction, which is exactly why it survives a busy week.
Affirm a vision, a dream, or the plain thing today needs. When a line stops landing, Change Affirmation gives you another from 1,000+ across eight life areas.
- Tap to affirm, anywhere, in seconds
- 1,000+ affirmations across 8 life areas
- Swap the words whenever they stop landing
- Works with no signal at all
Your vision board, with you all day
Build your board right on your iPhone at your screen size, with a layout, the free image library or your own photos, and your own words — or upload one you made in Canva, on Pinterest, or photographed off your wall. Either way, it lives in your pocket from then on.
That is what an iPhone is uniquely good for. A board on a wall gets seen when you are in that room. A board on your phone gets seen in the queue, on the bus, and in the thirty seconds before you walk into something that matters.
- Customize a board with layouts, images and words
- Or upload the board or image you already have
- Open it in a tap, wherever you are
- Free plan includes 5 vision boards
Identity cards for the moment just before you need them
An identity card is you deciding who you are, in your own words — a title like “I am the main character”, and a line underneath saying what that means on an ordinary day.
On an iPhone you can read one at the moment it actually counts: in the lift, outside the door, in the car before you go in. The Identity screen also keeps your streak, so the week is visible at a glance.
- Define your own identity, in your own words
- Title, description and avatar on every card
- Read one right before the room you are nervous about
- Free plan includes 3 identity cards
Protect your manifestation journey with Face ID or a passcode (Premium)
What you write in a manifestation app is more personal than almost anything else on your phone — the things you want, the person you are trying to become, the mornings that did not go well. With Premium, Manifestly puts a lock in front of all of it.
On iPhone that means Face ID on any device that supports it, or Touch ID on the models with a Home button. Underneath either one there is always a four-digit passcode, so you are never locked out of your own journal if biometrics fail with wet hands or a face mask.
- Face ID on Face ID-capable iPhones
- Touch ID on Home-button models
- A four-digit passcode as the fallback, always available
- Locks the journal, boards, affirmations and identity cards
Put your practice on your Home Screen with widgets
Manifestly comes with customizable Home Screen widgets, so the practice is there every time you unlock your phone — before you open anything else.
Mix and match them: a wide identity card across the top, your affirmation counter, your vision board image, and a gratitude journal widget that starts a new entry in one tap.
The affirmation widget is a working counter. Tap it and the repetition is recorded, without opening the app — and the count stays in sync both ways, so taps in the app show up on the widget and taps on the widget show up in the app.
- Gratitude journal: start a new entry straight from the Home Screen
- Affirmation: tap the widget to affirm; the count syncs with the app
- Vision board: your board, always in view
- Identity card: who you are becoming, in your own words
A day with Manifestly
Four moments that already exist in your day. None of them needs you to find time — they need about sixty seconds each.
Before the day has an opinion
Tap your affirmation before you open email. One line, one tap, and the count goes up. It is the smallest possible way to start the day pointed somewhere on purpose.
Thirty seconds with your vision board
Waiting for coffee. Sitting in the car before you go in. Long enough to remember what all of this is actually for — and it happens five times a day if you let it.
Read your identity card in the lift
Not to psych yourself up. Just to walk into the room as the person you have decided you are, rather than whoever the nerves are suggesting.
Three lines before you sleep
Typed, or said out loud while your phone goes on charge. Add the photo if a picture says it faster. That is a complete entry, and it is the one people keep.
None of it is impressive on its own. That is the point — a practice this small is one you are still doing in March.
Questions about Manifestly on iPhone
What is the best manifestation app for iPhone?
Manifestly: Daily Affirmations. It keeps a gratitude journal, daily affirmations with a tap-to-affirm counter, a vision board and identity cards in one free app, with Home Screen widgets for each, so the practice is a tap away all day.
What is the best gratitude journal app for iPhone?
Manifestly's gratitude journal is built for the end of a busy day: type, dictate with speech-to-text, or add a photo, with daily prompts when you're stuck. A Home Screen widget starts a new entry in one tap, and entries stay on your device. The free plan holds 7 notes.
What is the best daily affirmation app for iPhone?
For repeating affirmations rather than scrolling them, Manifestly: Daily Affirmations. Each line has a tap-to-affirm counter, the Home Screen widget records a repetition with one tap, and there are 1,000+ affirmations across eight life areas. See the daily affirmation app page for how it works.
Is the manifestation app free on iPhone?
Yes. Manifestly is a free download on the App Store with no ads on any plan. The free plan covers 7 gratitude notes, 5 saved affirmations, 5 vision boards and 3 identity cards, plus the full affirmation library. Premium removes the limits, adds iCloud sync, and unlocks app lock.
What iOS version do I need?
iOS 17 or later. The download is universal, so the same app covers your iPad at no extra cost.
Can I use it without a signal?
Yes. Everything lives on your iPhone, so the journal, affirmations, vision board and identity cards all work on a plane, on a trail, or with airplane mode on deliberately.
How long does a daily practice take?
A minute or two. Tap an affirmation in the morning, glance at your board during the day, and write three lines at night — and any one of those on its own still counts.
Is my journal private on my iPhone?
Yes. Entries are stored on the device rather than on our servers — we run none. With Premium you can lock the app behind Face ID, Touch ID or a four-digit passcode.
Will it sync with my iPad and Mac?
With iCloud sync turned on, yes. It syncs inside your own iCloud account, so we never see the content.
Does Manifestly have Home Screen widgets?
Yes. You can add customizable widgets for your gratitude journal, affirmation, vision board and identity cards to your iPhone Home Screen. The affirmation widget works as a counter: tap it to record a repetition without opening the app, and the count stays in sync with the app in both directions.
Start tonight, in the two minutes before you sleep.
Free on the App Store. Three grateful lines is a complete first day, and the rest follows from there.