The App Store film

Thirty seconds of Merorme. Recorded in the app.

The film from the App Store, as Merorme plays on an iPhone, with its voiceover: press play to hear it. The story in it is invented.

Tell Mero who is in a photo, and it remembers: the names you give are the names it uses.

The film in other languages: 日本語 · Français · Español

Meet Mero

A small light that keeps you company.

Mero is the journal’s companion. It waves hello when you first meet, thinks while it reads back through what you wrote, and celebrates the moments you mark. It never guesses your mood: a mood is always the one you set.

Idle — at rest

Soft eyes with a slow blink, a small smile, tendrils swaying at their own rhythms. The light on its forehead breathes with it.

Each state differs in colour, shape and motion, so Mero still reads clearly with Reduce Motion on.

Moments

Mark a moment. Mero makes it an occasion.

Write “I finished the book” and, with replies on, Mero may offer to mark it — only if you say yes. Then the screen is Mero’s, and a small tag keeps it with the entry. You can also mark a moment yourself from the + menu. Every moment you mark is there to find again in Reflect. Undo takes one back at once, and one tap removes it later. With iCloud, your moments follow you between your iPhone and iPad.

“Today was hard.”

No celebration. Mero stays close — write about it, or just sit.

Remember

It remembers what you wrote.

People you mention, plans you make, places you go. Ask Mero about your own life and it answers from your entries, in your own words.

This needs Mero’s replies turned on, on an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence.

When is Ada’s recital again?18:02

Saturday at four, at the community hall. You wrote that her rehearsal ran late, but she nailed the solo.18:02

And the bakery Sam told me about?18:03

The little one by the pier — Sam said to go early, before the ferry crowd.18:03

01

People you mention

Ada, Sam, Grandma June: the people in your entries, and who they are to you, as you wrote it.
2 October

Ada’s rehearsal ran late, but she nailed the solo. Recital is Saturday at 4, at the community hall.
- person
- plan
- place
An illustration — the app doesn’t colour your words.
Plans you make

Write that you’ll call someone, see someone or go somewhere, and — with replies on — the journal keeps that sentence and later asks how it went. Follow-ups stay on your device, and you can turn them off.

On Thursday, you write: I’ll call Grandma June on Sunday.

Later, the journal asks: On Thursday you wrote: “I’ll call Grandma June on Sunday.” How did it go?
Ask about your own life

Ask in plain words. Mero looks back through your entries and answers with what you wrote. Replies can be read aloud, too.

You ask: What did Rafi bring last time?

Mero answers: His old camera — you wrote that you sat on the harbour steps until the ferry came in.

Voice

Say it out loud. Hear it back.

Some days, talking is easier than typing. Speak to the journal and your words are written down on your device; let Mero read its reply aloud in one of your iPhone’s voices — or in your own Personal Voice, if you allow it.

The sound of your voice is never kept or sent: it becomes words on your device, and replies are spoken there.

A visual demonstration with invented words. No sound plays.

Photos

Faces and groups, remembered your way.

Add a photograph to an entry and Mero takes it in. When someone in it has no name yet, the journal asks who they are — and remembers the name you give.

It never names a stranger
Face grouping is Apple’s, on your device. Merorme gets no picture of a face and nothing that describes it — only a label from Apple and where the face sits in the photo — and never puts a name on someone you haven’t named.
A group, counted from the front
In a group photo, only the people in front are counted. Faces far in the background are not.
Where it was taken, as a place
If a photo records where it was taken, Apple’s map can tell the journal the place’s name. It’s off until you turn it on, in You › Naming places from photographs — and a name you give is always the one it uses.

Places

Every photo you add, where it was taken.

In the Remember tab, the map button shows each photo where its own file says it was taken. Tap one and its entry opens, on the day you wrote it.

Sunday, 11 October

Rafi brought his old camera. We sat on the harbour steps until the ferry came in.

Close together, one mark
Photos taken close together gather into one mark with a count. Zoom in, and they part.
No place, no mark
A photo whose file records no place stays off the map.
On your devices
The photos and their places stay on your devices — and in your own iCloud, if you use it. To draw the map, Apple gets only the area on screen.

Your days

Every day, at a glance.

The moods you set, on a calendar; a letter from Mero about your week; and a few figures from Health beside your moods, if you allow it. Mero can also read your calendar to answer you — only if you turn it on.

October
4. 1
5. 2
6. 3
7. 4
8. 5
9. 6
10. 7
11. 8
12. 9
13. 10
14. 11
15. 12
16. 13
17. 14
18. 15
19. 16
20. 17
21. 18
The moods you set

A calendar of your days, coloured by the mood you chose for each — not one worked out from your words.
Reflect

Your week at a glance — and, with replies on, a letter from Mero about it every Monday, written from your entries alone. Steps, exercise, daylight, heart rate and sleep from the Health app, if you allow it, shown beside your moods — read fresh each time, never written into your journal, never stored, and never given to Mero.
Your calendar, if you want

Off until you turn it on. Mero can read a day’s events to answer you — it never adds, changes or deletes one.

Play · the Bored tab

Bored? Five small games for a pause.

Nines, Doubles, Letters, Tempo and FreeCell share one tab, “I’m bored” (Bored in the tab bar). Each has a round of the day — the same for everyone, and kept in step on your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud — and unlimited rounds whenever you want more.

Nines

Number place in four sizes, each puzzle with one answer.

4×4 · 6×6 · 9×9 · 16×16 — Gentle or Steady
Doubles

Sliding tiles, 3×3 to 6×6. Two equal tiles that meet become one worth both; the goal is a 2048 tile, or 128 on 3×3.

The day’s round (150 moves, no undo), or unlimited rounds with one undo
Letters

A hidden five-letter word, found in six tries. In Japanese, Letters is played in hiragana, on its own kana keyboard, with unlimited words.

Today’s word, or unlimited
Tempo

Circles on the beat, each tapped as its ring closes.

A Gentle piece or a Steady one — its music made on the phone
FreeCell

Every card face up, four free cells: bring the whole deck home, each suit from ace to king.

Today’s deal, or another of a million — in Classic cards or the Mero deck

Nines in the app, a 9×9 Gentle puzzle in progress, with the violet Ask Mero button in the bar at the top.

Stuck? Ask Mero.

Mero sits in every game’s bar. It reads the round as it stands and answers by the game’s own rules — worked out, never guessed.

Nines: the next step, and why
Doubles: the best swipe, weighed two moves ahead
Letters: the words that still fit, and the best try
Tempo: how your last run was counted
FreeCell: a next move, marked on the board

Asking never costs a point. A round won clean — no hint or clue, no undo, no wrong number, no beat missed — and without asking Mero counts as a pure win.

Game Center, if you play there

Signed in to Game Center, a round won without a hint, a clue, an undo or Mero’s help goes to its leaderboard, and your rounds earn achievements on your profile. Every win still counts for Mero’s cards.

Ninesyour time
Doublesyour score
Lettersyour run of words found
Tempoyour score
FreeCellyour time and your moves

16achievements — and each one is one of Mero’s cards.

Nothing you write goes with them. Sign out of Game Center and nothing more goes.

Win, and Mero takes the screen.

A won round brings Mero over the whole screen, lit by the game it was won in. Tilt your phone and its eyes follow; tap around it to play on. A hard round wins in gold: night falls over the screen, a circle of light draws itself on, and it summons a pillar of light, a crown of ice, a dragon, a phoenix, Pegasus or Athena.

A win

A hard win: a phoenix

Mero’s cards

Win rounds. Collect Mero.

Sixteen cards, each won by your rounds. Signed in to Game Center, each is an achievement there too. And then the cards go on — in nine kinds, each card asking more than the one before, the journal’s own among them: the days you wrote.

Wins
Pure wins
Gold rounds
In a row
Best round
Points
Days
Night and morning
Journal

A day missed takes nothing away.

Nine rarities, nine materials

The cards that go on climb through them tier by tier — up to a mythic night sky.

Commona film’s bright bands on the diagonal
Rarebrushed silver
Holo Rarea rainbow swirl
Ultra Rareglass broken into shards
Gold Rarehammered gold
Diamond Rarea diamond’s facets
Fire Rarefire rising from the card’s foot
Ice Rarefrost crystals of ice
Mythic Rarea night sky with an aurora

And more

Small things that make it yours.

An idea to write about

Not sure where to start? The + menu has an idea to write about.
Let something go

Write down what is bothering you, then watch Mero shred it. Nothing of it is kept: not in your journal, not anywhere.
Follow-ups and reminders

With replies on, Mero asks how the plans you wrote about went. Ask it to remind you of something, in your own words, and a notification comes at the time you asked, if you allow notifications.
On your iPhone and iPad

With iCloud, your journal stays in step between your iPhone and iPad, through your own iCloud account. Merorme never receives a copy.
A glass icon, or another

Mero behind a pane of glass on your Home Screen, or Night, Sage, Plum or Vortex instead: pick one in You › Appearance.
In four languages

Merorme is in English, French, Spanish and Japanese.

Privacy

Nothing on our side to read.

Merorme has no server, no analytics and no account — there is nothing to sign in to. Your journal is stored on your iPhone or iPad — and in your own iCloud, if you use it. We never receive a copy, so there is nothing on our side to read, to sell, to hand over or to lose.

Stored on your device

Everything you write
Your photographs
What you say to it
The moods you set
What it remembers
The replies

From the app to us: nothing.

What can leave — never to us

Where a photo was taken
to Apple’s map, for the place’s name · only if you turn it on
The area on screen
to Apple’s map, while you look at the map of your places
Where you are
to Apple’s weather service, for the weather under the date and the morning note if you turn it on · only if you allow location
An entry you haven’t sent yet
to your own other devices, through Apple’s Handoff
What you write, for a reply
to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute · only if you turn on Apple’s cloud model
A won round’s result, and the achievements your rounds earn
to Game Center · only while you’re signed in
A question about the world
to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, by itself, when the model on your device can’t answer · only while replies are on, and the reply says so

Replies on your device

Mero’s replies are written by Apple’s model on your device. They’re off until you turn them on, and they still work in aeroplane mode. One exception: a question about the world that the model on your device can’t answer — who sang a song, say — is sent alone to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute, with nothing of your journal, and the reply says so.
Apple’s cloud model, only if you choose

Turn on Apple’s larger model and your entry, what the journal gives the reply with it, and a photo the reply looks at go to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute for that request — never to us. Apple states the data is used only to answer, and kept only until the answer is returned.
Health, never stored

If you allow it, figures from the Health app are read fresh each time and shown to you beside your moods — never written into your journal, stored, synced, exported, or given to the model.
Yours to keep, yours to delete

Export everything at any time, as plain text and JSON you can read without the app, and Import brings an export back in. Delete everything (in You) removes your journal from this device and from your iCloud; a backup Apple made earlier may still hold it. There is no copy with us to delete.

Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute are Apple’s services; what they support depends on your device, language and region, under Apple’s published requirements. For your iCloud backup, we recommend turning on Advanced Data Protection. Read the full privacy policy · Apple’s privacy information

Your life, remembered. Your journal, yours.

Thirty seconds of Merorme. Recorded in the app.

A small light that keeps you company.

Set a mood. Mero’s world takes its colour.

Mark a moment. Mero makes it an occasion.

It remembers what you wrote.

People you mention

Plans you make

Ask about your own life

Say it out loud. Hear it back.

Faces and groups, remembered your way.

It never names a stranger

A group, counted from the front

Where it was taken, as a place

Every photo you add, where it was taken.

Close together, one mark

No place, no mark

On your devices

Every day, at a glance.

The moods you set

Reflect

Your calendar, if you want

Bored? Five small games for a pause.

Nines

Doubles

Letters

Tempo

FreeCell

Stuck? Ask Mero.

Game Center, if you play there

Win, and Mero takes the screen.

Win rounds. Collect Mero.

Nine rarities, nine materials

Small things that make it yours.

An idea to write about

Let something go

Follow-ups and reminders

On your iPhone and iPad

A glass icon, or another

In four languages

Nothing on our side to read.

What can leave — never to us

Replies on your device

Apple’s cloud model, only if you choose

Health, never stored

Yours to keep, yours to delete

Questions?

Coming to the App Store.