News lost everyone's trust.Mera Labs is rebuilding it.
Readers stopped trusting what they see. Publishers stopped trusting technology companies. Mera Labs exists to earn both back, and it's set up so that trust can't be sold.
Two kinds of trust
Readers
Transparent
The app's code is published, and each story Mera picks says why it's there.
Secure
What you tell Mera is stored on your phone, and what it reads for you is encrypted.
No hidden bias
Your Feed ranks stories by how relevant they are to you, never by what other readers click or share. You can see and correct the reasoning.
Publishers
Publishers first
Mera shows a headline and sends the reader to the publisher's own site.
The revenue stays theirs
The visit, the ads, the paywall and the subscription all stay with the publisher.
Reporting over noise
Mera stores no audience, traffic or payment figure for any publisher, and no tally of clicks or shares across readers.
A company set up so the platform can't be abused
An app this close to your life has an easy way to make money: sell what it knows to advertisers. Mera Labs won't do that, now or ever. Readers are the customers, not the product. Anyone who backs Mera Labs backs these rules too, and no cheque changes them.
No ads, ever
Attention and reader data are never for sale.
Payment never buys ranking
Not for a publisher, not for an investor. Your Feed ranks a story on how relevant it is to you.
No reader profile on the server
There's no profile to hand over, to anyone.
Publishers stay the source
Mera never rewrites the reporting.
Trust is the business
The ethics and the economics point the same way.
Readers pay
Mera doesn't charge for the news. It charges for the AI that finds what matters in it, and plans are live on both app stores.
Costs fall as phones improve
When the phone does the reading, Mera pays no serving cost for it.
No data to lose
Privacy rules tighten and attacks get cheaper, so stored reading histories are a growing liability. Mera's servers don't keep them.
Hard to copy
A company paid by attention can't open its code or its ranking without exposing how it earns.
Mera News started when its founder moved to the Netherlands and wanted to know what was going on in Amsterdam and across the EU. It was all in different languages, and the updates that mattered most were buried.
Mera is independent and has been founder-funded so far. It isn't owned by or affiliated with any company. Frank & The Backs supports it as an accelerator, and Roel van Eersel advises it.
Where it stands
170+
countries on the App Store and Google Play
8,000+
publications read
20
app languages
Source-available
the app's code, for anyone to read
Today
Mera News
Private, AI-curated news that sends readers to publishers.
Next
Publisher tools
Publishers join by themselves and grow on Mera.
Later
More privacy-safe products
Built on the same trust, once Mera News earns recurring revenue.
“This is not an incremental improvement. It is a structural innovation in how news reaches audiences.”
“An outstanding technical solution, with a unique set of functional and privacy features not encountered in any other single application in the market.”
“This is what a good LLM application looks like. Privacy and personalisation need not be a trade-off.”
Help rebuild trust in news
Readers back Mera by subscribing in the app. Investors and larger backers can message Mera Labs on WhatsApp or write to contact@mera.news. Your support pays for independent audits, builds anyone can verify, a public release log, and tools for publishers.
Company and contact
- Company
- Mera Labs B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- KvK
- 42077437
- VAT
- NL869602214B01
- Message Mera Labs
- Readers
- support@mera.news
- Publishers
- publishersupport@mera.news
- Press and backers
- contact@mera.news
- Privacy
- privacy@mera.news
A plan buys the product, not a stake in Mera Labs B.V. This page isn't an investment offer.