Very Authenticator vs Mercle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Very Authenticator
Verify your identity quickly and privately using your phone's camera. This app employs palm scanning and liveness detection for secure human verification, backed by extensive biometric research.
- Palm scan verification
- Liveness detection
- Camera-based identity check
- Private and secure
- Fast verification process
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Use Very to securely, and privately, approve actions on your account with a palm scan. It’s an easier, biometric-powered version of one-time passwords or single sign-ons. The app uses your smartphone camera to register your palms. Your palm is analyzed and anonymized, so your personal data is kept private. After your palm is registered, a partner site can easily authenticate or approve actions by asking you to do a simple movement within the Very app. It only takes a few seconds. How to get started: Set up your Very account with an email address. Register both your palms by following the directions in the app. On a partner site, you’ll be given the option to authenticate using Very. Scan the QR code with the Very app and complete the simple movement to verify your identity. And you’re done! Very is private, secure, and backed by a decade of palm biometric research. Learn more at very.org
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 ratings volume: Very Authenticator at 23 against Mercle's 1. Very Authenticator also leads on iOS requirement (13 vs 17.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Very Authenticator against 5.0 for Mercle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Very Authenticator has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Very Authenticator ships an update every 9 days, Mercle every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Very Authenticator | Mercle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 208 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Veros Inc. | Apex Labs PTE. LTD. |
Customer experience
Very Authenticator
Mercle
In-app purchases
Very Authenticator
No in-app purchases
Mercle
No in-app purchases
