Manifest Just Got Bigger: June 2026 Product Update

Every version of Manifest has built on the one before it. March gave you goals and groups. April gave your circle a voice. May made the whole thing smarter. June makes it bigger, more accessible, and easier to share with people who aren't on the platform yet.

There's a lot here. Let's get into it.

Manifest Allies

This is the one we've been excited to ship. Manifest Allies is a curated directory of mentors, coaches, programs, communities, and resources you can discover directly inside the app. When you're working on a goal and you need expertise that doesn't live inside your current circle, Allies gives you somewhere to look.

This matters because not everyone has the right people in their network for every goal. Your circle is intentionally small. Allies extends your reach without replacing the intimacy of that circle. It's a complement, not a substitute.

Contact Matching

Find people you already know on Manifest using your phone number or an alternate email. No cold searching. No guessing. If someone in your contacts is already here, you'll find them. Your existing relationships are the foundation. Contact matching just removes the friction.

Alternate Email Verification and Phone Verification

Add and verify additional emails. Add and verify your phone number via SMS. Both are optional, but both improve discoverability and make your identity on Manifest more complete. More ways to be found by the right people.

Dark Mode

Full dark mode support across every page and every component. Some of you have been asking for this since day one. It's here. It works. Looks great.

Smart Reminders

Two types, both useful. Inactivity reminders go out when a goal has had no updates for an extended stretch. Deadline reminders go out when a goal's target date is approaching. Neither is a shame spiral. Both are a gentle signal that your goal is still there, still worth showing up for.

SMS Group Invites

Get someone into your group by text an invite directly from the app. We’ve made it faster to bring the right people in without the friction of explaining what Manifest is before they've even tried it. Sometimes the easiest way to sell a tool is to just put it in someone's hands.

Onboarding Flow

New users now move through a guided onboarding wizard that sets them up properly from the start. Create a goal, add milestones, invite your first allies, set a cadence. The setup that used to require figuring things out now happens in a few clean steps.

A good onboarding experience is invisible. You don't notice it because everything just makes sense. That's what we were going for (fingers crossed).

Where this leave us

June is the update that makes Manifest ready for more people. Not just early adopters who are comfortable figuring things out. Everyone. The onboarding flow, the contact matching, the QR invites, the SMS invites: all of them reduce the friction between "I just downloaded this" and "I'm actively using this with my people."

And Manifest Allies is the feature that opens the door beyond your existing circle. When the goal you're working on needs expertise you don't have in your network yet, you have somewhere to look.

Four months in, Manifest is a different product than what launched in March. Not because the core idea changed. Because everything around that core idea now works better, runs faster, and reaches further.

More to come.