FheID vs Mercle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FheID
This app uses biometric verification to confirm your human likeness, safeguarding digital identities from bots. It allows access to services and rewards by validating authenticity without sharing personal data. Unique NFTs are created upon successful verification.
- Human likeness verification
- Digital identity protection
- NFT creation
- Enhanced privacy with FHE
- Airdrop eligibility
- Secure biometric validation
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Leveraging Proof of Humanity (PoH) technology, the FheID app confirms your human likeness, safeguarding your digital identity against bots and AI impersonations. Human Likeness, Not Identity: Secure your presence on Web3 and Web2 platforms without compromising personal details. With the FheID app, validate your biometric data in real time using your phone's camera. Access services, airdrops, and rewards across various apps by simply confirming your authenticity as a real person, without disclosing any personal information like your name, email, or sensitive biometric details. Unique NFT Creation: Validate your human likeness through facial biometrics to generate a unique NFT—your personalized proof of human identity. Enhanced Privacy with FHE: Instead of transmitting original images, our app transforms your facial features into encrypted vectors right on your device. These vectors, securely encrypted using your client key, are sent to our Privasea network's fortified servers. This process ensures that your original images remain confidential, fostering trust in our Privasea AI computation. Airdrops: Earn exclusive airdrops by validating your human likeness, ensuring that only real users, not bots, receive rewards. Security: Our platform is fortified with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a cutting-edge post quantum cryptography technology that offers unrivaled security, protecting your private and personal information. Absolute Privacy: Our encryption safeguards ensure that your data, whether biometric or otherwise, remains encrypted from the moment it leaves your device. So secure, in fact, that even we cannot access your private information.
Mercle
This app uses your facial features to generate a unique credential, verifying your identity as human. Authenticate your online content and communications to ensure authenticity.
- Facial feature analysis for credential creation
- Proof of personhood identity
- Authenticate posts and content
- Verify chats and communications
- Ensures genuine user presence
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AI content is everywhere, making it hard to spot real humans online. Mercle uses your facial features to create a unique credential that proves you're human. Authenticate your posts, chats, and content with it, so everyone knows it's genuinely YOU.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mercle at 5.0 against FheID's 2.9. Mercle also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). FheID's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FheID sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mercle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mercle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FheID has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FheID | Mercle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 411 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Privasea AB | Apex Labs PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
FheID
Mercle
In-app purchases
FheID
- Create NFT$3.99
Mercle
No in-app purchases









