MERA NEWS
|Your smart news assistant that knows what matters to you
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Meet Mera
Mera News is an AI-curated personal news assistant. Every day it processes more than 200,000 articles from thousands of sources around the world. When you open the app, every article that matches your interests reaches your Feed. Mera reads them, sets aside the noise and lifts the stories most likely to affect your life. You're better informed in minutes, not hours.
Say you've just moved to a new country. You need news from more than one place, and the updates that matter, on visas, tax and local emergencies, are buried in noise. Those are the stories Mera is built to find.
The problem
Why staying informed has become so hard
You can't tell what actually matters
Every day, thousands of things compete for your attention: articles, social posts, propaganda, ads, viral clips and AI-generated spam. The news that affects your life gets buried, and nothing separates it from the rest.
You give up your privacy just to stay informed
Most apps that promise to keep you informed invade your privacy. They build detailed profiles of what you care about, worry about and search for. You don't know what they've stored, who they've shared it with or how it's being used. You're forced to choose between staying informed and staying safe.
You've lost control of your attention
Staying informed shouldn't mean being glued to a screen, but most platforms are designed to keep you there. You scroll for hours in case you miss something critical, and you almost never have.
The solution
How Mera answers all three
Mera's picks first, not endless scrolling
Mera reads thousands of sources so you don't have to. Open the app and its picks come first, each with a note on why it's there. Choose the hours for a short reminder, and catching up takes minutes.
Privacy built into the architecture
Your facts, places, saved articles and reading history are stored on your phone, not on Mera's servers. In the private cloud, Mera AI runs encrypted so Mera can't read your data. To fetch news, Mera's servers receive broad topic phrases with no profile, no reading history and no user ID attached. No database links a reader to a topic, so Mera can't produce a record of what you read, and a server breach would expose no reader profiles. What Mera does hold is small: a sign-in record for your phone, your subscription status, and the daily record of how much Mera read for you and how many articles reached your Feed, used to apply your plan. Mera is built in the Netherlands under the EU's GDPR.
News that actually matters to you
Your Feed ranks stories by how relevant they are to you, never by what other readers click or share. That can be a policy change in your country, an emergency near your family or a new rule in your industry. Every story Mera picks comes with the reason it's in your Feed.
What Mera does for you
Everything the world reports, narrowed to what affects you.
Nothing to sign up for
No email, no phone number, no password. Download Mera and start reading. Pay through Apple or Google, and your plan follows your store account to a new phone.
Stories close to your life
Mera finds national, local and specialist reporting connected to your own circumstances, including stories you would never know to search for.
Global breadth, without the overload
You get the reach of thousands of sources without monitoring endless feeds yourself. Mera does the watching and puts what counts first.
Follow a story as it develops
Follow any issue and Mera gathers new coverage on a timeline as the story moves forward.
Recommendations you can check
Every story Mera picks says why it may matter to you. Correct the reasoning, refine your profile, or read Mera's source-available recommendation logic instead of trusting a secret algorithm.
Fact checks on request
Tap Fact check on an article and Mera looks for what established fact-checking organisations have published about it, and shows their ratings in their own words.
Privacy by Architecture
Your profile, reading history, saved articles and sensitive context stay on your device. Mera Labs does not build or sell a central advertising profile from them.
Mera News is free to use and available in Hindi, English and 18 other languages. More Indian languages are on the way.
See how it works
One app, from your life to the source
Mera reads the day's news and keeps the stories that touch your life. Each one says why it's there, in a short note you can question.
No forms. Talk to Mera about where you live, your work and what you care about. What you agree to save stays on your phone.
Ask Mera to follow a story. It keeps watching, however long it runs, and gathers new coverage on a timeline.
Headlines from around the world reach you in any of 20 languages, with the original one tap away.
Mera reads in an encrypted private cloud that even Mera Labs can't read. On supported iPhones, it can read on the phone itself.
No rewrites. Every story opens on the publisher's own site, and your reading supports their work.
See how it works
One app, from your life to the source
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Only what affects you
Mera reads the day's news and keeps the stories that touch your life. Each one says why it's there, in a short note you can question.
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Tell Mera about your life
No forms. Talk to Mera about where you live, your work and what you care about. What you agree to save stays on your phone.
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Never lose track of a story
Ask Mera to follow a story. It keeps watching, however long it runs, and gathers new coverage on a timeline.
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The whole world, in your language
Headlines from around the world reach you in any of 20 languages, with the original one tap away.
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Private by design
Mera reads in an encrypted private cloud that even Mera Labs can't read. On supported iPhones, it can read on the phone itself.
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Straight to the publisher
No rewrites. Every story opens on the publisher's own site, and your reading supports their work.
Thousands of publications, across countries and languages
From national broadcasters to local papers, Mera reads the news where it is published.
8,000+
publications
200+
countries and territories
100+
languages
Mera reads each publication from its own feed. Articles are matched across languages, so a local story written in another language can still reach you, and every article links back to its publisher.
How Mera is built
Built to be checked
- •Source-available: the app's full source is published for anyone to read, compile, and audit
- •Verify attestation in the app shows which tests of the cloud's secure hardware passed and which aren't performed
Relevance by meaning
- •Matching by meaning, so a story can reach you without using your exact words
- •Your Places can span more than one country: home, work and family
- •Reads news in more than 100 languages, so a story's language never limits what reaches you
On the publisher's side
- •Readers go to publishers, not away from them: Mera never shows the article text, and every story opens on the publisher's own site
- •Mera stores no audience, traffic or payment figure for any publisher
Simple, transparent pricing
No ads. No ad tracking. A free plan, and a subscription that aligns Mera's interests with yours. Every article that matches your interests reaches your Feed. Mera reads them, sets aside the noise and lifts what matters. On supported iPhones, reading on the phone is unlimited on every plan.
Starter
For lighter news monitoring
- Complete Mera News experience
- 4 MB of cloud reading a day
- Free for as long as you want it, with no payment details
Individual
Best valueFor everyday news monitoring
- Everything in Starter
- 20 MB of cloud reading a day
- Better for broader profiles, more interests and followed stories
Professional
For professional news monitoring
- Everything in Individual
- 100 MB of cloud reading a day, 5x Individual
- Built for journalists, analysts, researchers and other high-volume users
Starter is free. Mera reads for you through end-to-end encryption, so it can't see which articles it reads or how many. That's why plans are measured in megabytes of encrypted text, not in articles.
Founder
Abhijeet Chakraborty
I built Mera to solve a problem I experienced firsthand: we spend hours every day hunting for information that matters, while most of what we find doesn't. My vision is simple: information should come to you when it's relevant, not trap you in endless feeds.
I've been a software engineer for nearly a decade. I spent four years at Meta (2022–2025) building recommendation systems at billion-user scale, navigating GDPR compliance, and deploying GenAI in production. The core innovation, privacy-preserving personalisation without centralised data collection, is something I built from scratch.
I'm building Mera because I want to use it myself. A tool that keeps you informed in minutes, respects your privacy, and gives you back time for the things that actually matter.
Why Trust Matters
Privacy is not something I think about after building a product. It shapes the architecture before development begins. AI is making cyberattacks more capable, which makes every central store of sensitive data more dangerous. The responsible approach is to collect less, retain less, and keep personal context on your device wherever possible.
Mera Labs operates from the Netherlands under the EU's GDPR. My goal is not only to meet today's requirements, but to build products that hold up as privacy expectations grow stronger.
Better informed in minutes, with your privacy intact
Starter is free, with no email, no phone number and no password. Get Mera on your phone.