Manifold

Download Manifold

The builds are made by one run, on each operating system's own machine, and rebuilt on every change — so the link is always the newest work rather than the last release. They are not signed, so the first launch needs one extra step, described under each.

Honestly: Manifold is built and tested on Linux, and nobody has yet launched it on a Mac or a Windows machine. If you do, what you find is worth reporting.

In your browser → on a computer, nothing to install — the same editor, in a tab Your documents stay on your machine. Drawings and the second proofreading pass need the desktop app.
macOS ↓ a .dmg for Apple Silicon and Intel alike Unsigned: drag it in, then run xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Manifold.app once in Terminal.
Windows ↓ an installer or .msi Unsigned: SmartScreen warns once — More info, then Run anyway.
Linux ↓ an AppImage that runs anywhere or .deb .rpm Make it executable, then open it.

Checksums for all of them, and the terms it is offered under.

Nothing for you to install

Writing, mathematics and LaTeX export need nothing but Manifold. A few optional things want a program of their own — Chromium to export a PDF, TeX Live to change a drawing, a model for the writing help — and Manifold sees what is missing, says what it is for, and installs it through your own machine’s package manager when you press the button.

What it installs, and why it asks first →

Free to use, and yours to keep writing with

The editor needs no account and no subscription, and it never will — what you write is yours, in a file on your own disk, readable without it. A few things belong to a plan — keeping your documents in the cloud, writing together on a document, and the writing help when it runs on a model we provide. They are free to start with, and beyond that priced at close to what they cost to run. Never the editor.

The full terms, and those of everything Manifold is built on.

Manifold is free, and the editor always will be. A few things belong to a plan — keeping your documents in the cloud, writing together on a document, and the writing help when it runs on a model we provide — free to start with, and beyond that priced at close to what they cost to run. A donation is not for those. It is for the app itself: the fixes, the features, and the fact that one person sat down and built it. Support Manifold →