Your vision board, shown large
Build your board in the app or upload one you already made, then see it on a big screen where every image is legible.
What Manifestly does best on Mac
Type instead of thumbing
Gratitude entries and scripts are easier to write at length on a keyboard. It is the same journal you use on your phone.
Your affirmation beside your work
Keep Manifestly open in a window next to what you are doing and tap the counter between tasks.
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
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
Your vision board, full screen and undistracted
Build your vision board in the app at a Mac screen size, with the free image library or your own photos, or upload one 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.
- Build a custom board, or upload your own
- Shown large on the screen you already work at
- A minute of focus, not an editing session
- Free plan includes 5 vision boards
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
Protect your manifestation journey with Touch ID or a passcode (Premium)
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 Premium app 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
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
A keyboard makes it easy to write more than you would on a phone. 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 free on the App Store, and your practice carries across from iPhone and iPad.
Questions about Manifestly on Mac
What is the best gratitude journal app for Mac?
Manifestly's gratitude journal on the Mac is made for longer entries: a full keyboard, a big screen and room for photos. Entries stay on your Mac, and with Premium iCloud sync they continue on iPhone and iPad. The free plan holds 7 notes.
Is the Mac app available now?
Yes. Manifestly for Mac is available on the App Store and is free to download, like the iPhone and iPad app.
What macOS version does 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.
Bring your practice to your desk.
Manifestly is free on the App Store for Mac, iPhone and iPad.