Frequently Asked Questions

Mera is an impact-first personal news assistant — there's no feed to scroll. It continuously scans hundreds of sources and delivers the number of daily alerts you choose, each with a plain-language "Why this matters to you" explanation and a direct link to the original publisher. It's built to give back the 60–90 minutes a day most people lose filtering the news themselves.

There's no engagement farming and no infinite feed. Mera only alerts you when something genuinely affects you, instead of maximising the time you spend inside the app. In fact, Mera succeeds when you spend less time reading news, not more.

Mera monitors hundreds of publications worldwide across many languages. Articles are translated and matched across languages, so a local-language report and an English report about the same event are grouped together. The full list of sources is open source on GitHub for anyone to inspect.

No. Mera only shows you headlines and its reasoning for why a story matters — the actual reading happens at the original publisher. Rather than replacing journalism, Mera routes traffic and attention back to the newsrooms that produced it.

No. Your profile and the personal facts derived from it never leave your device. Our servers only ever receive broad, noise-padded news topics that are k-anonymous — a design we call the Mera Protocol.

Never. There are no ads and we never sell your data. Mera is subscription-only, which means you're the customer — not the product being sold to advertisers.

Privacy in Mera is architectural, not just a policy promise. The client code is open source, we publish network-traffic analysis guides, and independent audits let anyone verify exactly what does and doesn't leave your device.

You can delete your account directly in the app, and there's also a data-deletion page on this website. Because your profile lives on your device, simply deleting the app removes it too.

You decide — you can configure up to 24 alert opportunities per day at the times that suit you. Life-safety emergency alerts are the one exception and always break through your cap.

First, semantic search finds candidate articles that might matter to you. Then an LLM analyses each candidate to decide whether — and why — it's actually relevant to you. Plans differ only in how many candidates can be analysed per day.

Mera is available on both iOS and Android, worldwide.

The app interface is available in 20 languages. News itself is gathered from sources in many more languages and matched across them, so the language a story was written in never limits what reaches you.

Starter is €2.19/month (500 analyses per day), Individual is €4.99/month (1,000 per day), and Professional is €19.99/month (10,000 per day). Starter and Individual include a 1-month free trial for new users. During the current launch promo, the app is free to use on the Individual plan for a limited time.

Only the daily article-analysis capacity. Every plan includes the complete Mera experience — the plans simply differ in how many candidate articles can be analysed for you each day.

Subscriptions are managed through the App Store or Google Play, and there's a manage-subscription screen inside the app. You can cancel anytime.

Relevance scoring is real LLM work that runs on your own device or in a private enclave — not on a server farm reading your profile. Articles are analysed in batches with visible progress. That's the cost of privacy-preserving personalisation, and it gets noticeably faster on newer phones.

On your device. Your profile, personal facts, reading history, and saved articles all stay local — Mera's servers never receive them.

If your phone can't run the model locally, analysis runs in a hardware-attested trusted execution environment. Your app verifies the enclave, end-to-end encrypts the request so no one — including Mera — can read it, and everything is wiped after the computation finishes.

Only your account email and subscription status, plus the broad, noise-padded topics used to pre-fetch candidate articles — and those are k-anonymous and can't be traced back to your real profile. No profile, no personal facts, and no reading behaviour are ever stored.

Email us at contact@mera.news, or use the Report a Bug option inside the app.