Plans

The editor is free, needs no account, and never will. A few things cost money every month for every person who uses them, and those belong to a plan — said here rather than discovered later.

Free, and staying that way

Writing, mathematics, structure, tables, figures, the bibliography, numbering and cross-references, real pages, LaTeX and PDF export, versions, notebooks on your own disk, proofreading in both languages, and the whole of the editor. Your document is a file on your own machine and opens without us.

What a plan covers

Four things, and they have one thing in common: each costs us something every month for every person using it, because each keeps a copy of your work on a machine that is not yours, or carries your keystrokes to somebody else's screen.

• Documents kept in the cloud — the same paper on two machines, with neither overwriting the other.
• Sending a copy, and a link that only reads.
• Writing together — a paper, or a whole notebook, with more than one person in it at once.
• Writing help on a model we host, for people who would rather not install one.

The writing help is not one of them

The assistant, the diagram written from a description and the second proofreading pass all run on a model on your own machine — that is what Manifold sets up for you, and it costs nothing at any number of people. Your own key to somebody else's model costs us nothing either, and stays free. A plan buys one convenience there: a model we host, so there is nothing to install.

What it costs today

Nothing. All of it is free while Manifold is in early access. When that ends it will be priced at close to what it costs to run, and a free allowance will stay — enough to keep a few papers and share one. What will not happen is a thing offered free and taken away: that is why these are called part of a plan now, before anybody has come to rely on them being free forever.

Plans are sold through Paddle, who handle the payment and the invoice. The terms, the privacy policy and the refund policy — a full refund within 14 days of any charge — say the rest.

What will never be behind a plan

The editor. Opening, writing and saving a document. Exporting LaTeX and PDF. Everything that happens on your own machine. If a version of Manifold ever asks you to pay to open your own file, it is not this project.