For academics who have outgrown the spreadsheet tracker
Manuscripts is a Mac app for academics who've outgrown the spreadsheet. Draft, submit, revise, and repeat. Most tools pretend to be project managers or reference managers. Manuscripts does one thing: it tracks where your papers are in the submission journey—which journal, which round, which reviewers' comments triggered which revisions. 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.
I was tired of losing track of version numbers and embarrassingly scolded by the editor for a missing response to a reviewer's concern, a citation not in the journal's required format, or that extra checklist required at 2nd submission that's not the conflict of in interest form, nor the author contribution form. So, what started as an app to help me publish moire efficiently and with less stress, has turned into Manuscripts, available now to you as well. Please ask questions and share how Manuscripts has helped you organize revisions, track submissions, and stay sane (despite Reviewer 2). - Jamie
About Manuscripts.app on Product Hunt
“For academics who have outgrown the spreadsheet tracker”
Manuscripts.app launched on Product Hunt on May 9th, 2026 and earned 85 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Manuscripts is a Mac app for academics who've outgrown the spreadsheet. Draft, submit, revise, and repeat. Most tools pretend to be project managers or reference managers. Manuscripts does one thing: it tracks where your papers are in the submission journey—which journal, which round, which reviewers' comments triggered which revisions. 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.
On the analytics side, Manuscripts.app competes within Mac, Productivity and Education — topics that collectively have 833.7k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Manuscripts.app performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Manuscripts.app?
Manuscripts.app was hunted by Jamie Forrest. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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