A document assembler for macOS. Point it at a project folder and your text, figures, tables, equations, and citations assemble into one finished document — in minutes, not hours.
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This is the public home for Manifold — where you report bugs, request features, and read release notes. Manifold is a closed-source commercial app from Studium; this repository hosts its issue tracker, discussions, and changelog, not its source.
Manifold treats a project folder as the source of truth and compiles it the way a build system compiles source — the same inputs always produce the same document. It runs seven deterministic passes, each of which shows its work and lets you confirm or override every decision:
- Ingest, read-only — walks every nested sub-folder through macOS security-scoped bookmarks. Nothing is modified.
- Reading order — resolves multi-file body order from the strongest signal available (LaTeX
\input, Quarto/bookdown chapter lists, numeric filename prefixes, front-matterorder:), each graded with a confidence. - Placement — classifies and anchors each figure and table to a paragraph via a ranked stack of signals (filename callouts, fingerprint matching, TF-IDF similarity, on-device OCR only when still ambiguous).
- Numbering & cross-references — numbers assets in citation order and rewrites in-prose callouts to resolved labels (
timeline.pdf→ Figure 1). - Citations — binds each citation to its reference and renders it in your chosen CSL style; switching styles re-renders everything instantly.
- Invariant check — validates the assembled document (uncited files, dangling callouts, unmatched citations, low-resolution figures) into one review queue that gates export until resolved.
- Render — emits Markdown, Word (
.docx), PDF, and LaTeX from one validated model, so numbering, placement, and captions never drift between formats.
Manifold ships with no network entitlement — enforced by macOS and auditable, not a setting. The app cannot make a network request to scan, caption, or export. The one AI step — drafting captions for figures/tables you leave blank — runs entirely on-device with Apple's models, and you approve or rewrite every draft. Nothing you open ever leaves your Mac. Read the full privacy policy.
| Text in | Markdown (.md), Word (.docx) |
| Figures | PNG, JPEG, TIFF, HEIC, GIF, BMP, WebP, SVG, PDF |
| Tables | CSV, TSV, or a table saved as an image |
| Equations | LaTeX inline & display math |
| References | BibTeX, CSL-JSON, RIS, EndNote |
| Citation styles | Nature, Cell, APA, Vancouver, IEEE, ACS, Chicago, MLA — plus any CSL style |
| Documents out | Markdown, Word (.docx), PDF, LaTeX (.tex) |
- macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later
- Apple silicon (M1 or later)
Coming soon to the Mac App Store — $49.99 one-time (14-day free trial, no subscription). Watch Releases or the website for the launch.
- 🐞 Bug? Open an issue. Manifold's Help ▸ Report an Issue pre-fills your app and macOS version for you.
- 💡 Idea or feature request? Start a thread in Discussions ▸ Ideas.
- 🙋 Need help? See Support or email info@studiumhq.com.
Manifold is proprietary software. © Studium. All rights reserved. This repository's issue and discussion content is community-contributed; the application itself is not open source.