Manly

What is Manly?

Manly is a photo and video editing app designed for portrait retouching and appearance-focused edits on Mac. It helps users modify selfies and other people-focused images with tools for body reshaping, face adjustments, and style effects. Common uses include refining profile photos, experimenting with different looks, and making quick edits before sharing to social platforms. The app is available through the Apple App Store for Mac with Apple silicon support, and it also offers in-app purchases for additional features. Manly fits best for users who want a focused editor for cosmetic-style image changes rather than a general desktop photo management workflow.

Key features

• Edit portrait photos with body reshaping tools
• Adjust facial details and appearance-focused retouching effects
• Apply style changes such as beard and look enhancements
• Work with photo and video content from one app
• Use quick cosmetic editing tools for social-ready images

Safety overview

Status: Mostly safe

Manly is a legitimate App Store app for portrait editing and its requested access is generally tied to working with your photos and videos. As with many ad-supported or analytics-enabled mobile-style apps, its store privacy details indicate some usage data may be used for tracking and some identifiers, diagnostics, and usage data may be collected. If you use it, share only the media you want edited and review the app’s privacy choices before uploading sensitive personal images.

Recommendation: Keep Manly if you actively use its portrait and body-editing tools on your Mac. If you no longer edit photos with it, removing the app is reasonable and will mainly affect your ability to use its filters, retouching tools, and any app-specific purchases or settings on this Mac.

Common paths

• /Applications/Manly.app

Related apps

• Photable
• BodyApp
• Everlook
• Facey

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