Manuscripts: A Mac app for tracking academic paper submissions without subscription fees
By
Jamie Forrest
Tired, dry, slightly forgotten on the back of the tray.
Summary
Manuscripts is a Mac app designed for academics to track the submission journey of their papers across journals and revision rounds. Unlike project managers or reference managers, it focuses solely on monitoring where papers are in the submission process, including which journal, round, and reviewer comments triggered revisions. It's a one-time purchase with no subscription or cloud dependency, keeping data locally on the user's Mac.
Key quotes
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One-time purchase. No subscription. No cloud. Your data lives on your Mac.
Built for how academic work actually feels: slow, iterative, and often unglamorous.
Most tools pretend to be project managers or reference managers.
Draft, submit, revise, and repeat.
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