Overview

Mera News is a personal news app for iPhone and Android. It shows you a headline, a short note from Mera on why the story may matter to you, and a link to the publisher. You read the article on the publisher's own site. Mera never shows the article or a summary of it.

Mera Labs B.V. builds Mera News. These pages explain how the technology works, where your data sits and what isn't finished yet. They are written for developers, security researchers and anyone who wants more detail than the privacy policy gives.

The design in short

• What Mera knows about you stays on your phone. You can see it, edit it and delete it.
• To fetch news, your phone turns what it knows into short topic phrases, such as "Amsterdam local news", and sends those to Mera's servers.
• Mera's servers keep each phrase in a cache shared by all users, with no user identifier on it. They return article identifiers and leave the choosing to your side.
• Ranking and the notes run in one of two places. In Private cloud, your phone encrypts the work before sending it to a secure environment. With On this phone, a beta on iPhone, it runs on the phone itself.
• Sign-in uses your phone. Mera never asks for an email address or a phone number.

What you can check yourself

The Mera app is source-available, so you can read what it sends. The inference gateway repository is public too. Mera's news server is private today, so anything these pages say about the server can't be checked from outside. Source and licences has the details.

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