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Manifold 1.0 has been submitted to the Mac App Store and is awaiting Apple review. This page will be updated when it goes live.

Manifold assembles a folder of scattered text, figures, tables, equations, and citations into a finished document — privately, on your Mac.

What's in 1.0

A deterministic pipeline, not a black box. Manifold treats your 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.

  • Ingest, read-only — walks every nested sub-folder and opens each file through a macOS security-scoped bookmark. Nothing you open is ever modified.

    • Text: Markdown (.md), Word (.docx, with OMML equations round-tripped)
    • Figures: PNG, JPEG, TIFF, HEIC, GIF, BMP, WebP, SVG, PDF
    • Tables: CSV, TSV, or a table saved as an image
    • Equations: LaTeX, inline and display
    • Scripts: Python, R, MATLAB, Julia, Stata, SAS, R Markdown, Quarto, Jupyter — read for context, never run
    • References: BibTeX, CSL-JSON, RIS, EndNote

  • Reading order — resolves multi-file body order from the strongest signal available (LaTeX \input/\include, Quarto or bookdown chapter lists, numeric filename prefixes, front-matter order), falling back to heading inference and natural sort. Every file is graded with a confidence you can confirm.

  • Placement — each figure and table is anchored to a paragraph through a ranked stack of signals: exact and fuzzy filename callouts, literal and fingerprint matching, then TF-IDF similarity, with on-device OCR only for the few files still ambiguous. Every decision carries a confidence you can override.

  • Numbering & cross-references — assets are numbered in the order your text first cites them, and in-prose callouts are rewritten to the resolved labels. A renumber re-resolves every cross-reference, so numbers and prose never drift apart.

  • Citations — bound to their reference entries and rendered in your chosen CSL style. Eight built in (Nature, Cell, APA, Vancouver, IEEE, ACS, Chicago, MLA), plus any CSL style you import. Switching re-renders every citation and re-orders the bibliography instantly.

  • Invariant check — the assembled document is validated for uncited files, callouts with no file, unmatched citations, duplicates, and figures below print resolution. Everything lands in one review queue.

  • Render — the same validated model is emitted to Markdown, Word (.docx), PDF, and LaTeX at once, with identical numbering, placement, and captions.

On-device AI captions. For any figure or table you leave blank, Apple's on-device AI drafts a caption from the generating script, the sentence that cites it, and an OCR scan. It's the only step that uses AI, and you approve or rewrite every draft.

Nothing resets. Edit your files and re-scan: Manifold reconciles the change without discarding your work. Reading order, asset types, placement overrides, and caption edits all persist across runs.

Private by design. Manifold ships with no network entitlement — the app cannot make a network request, not to scan, caption, or export. That's enforced by macOS and auditable, not a preference you have to trust.

Requirements

  • macOS 26 (Tahoe) or later
  • Apple silicon (M1 or later)

Pricing

Free to try for 14 days, then a one-time purchase for Manifold 1. No subscription, no account, no cloud.

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