About Meret
Meret is a second brain for musical creativity. It helps you capture a musical idea the moment it strikes, then organize, rediscover, and evolve it long after the moment has passed. Recording comes first, everything stays on your phone, and your original takes are never put at risk.
What Meret is
Meret is a creative vault for musicians, built for Android. You hit record without looking and keep playing, singing, or humming, and the phone gets out of the way. Later, in a separate review mode, you give a session a title, a mood, an instrument, mark the moments worth keeping as ideas, and connect ideas across sessions. A recording stops being an anonymous file named by a timestamp and becomes something you can still find, understand, and build on a year from now.
Why it exists
Musical ideas do not arrive on schedule. They come while you are warming up, humming in traffic, or half asleep with an instrument in your lap. Most of them vanish, because catching one means fumbling with an app, and by the time you have, the feeling is gone. The tools we reach for in that moment treat music as audio files and timestamps, which is the wrong mental model for a creative idea.
Meret is built on a different belief: that the moment of inspiration is the thing worth protecting, and that the work of organizing should never be allowed to interrupt it. That belief becomes a small set of principles the whole app is measured against.
- Protect the flow. Nothing stands between you and a running recording. No forms, no prompts, no setup on the path to capture.
- Capture now, organize later. Recording and review are separate modes on purpose, so reflection never competes with inspiration.
- Never risk the source. Your original recordings are irreplaceable creative assets. Meret is non-destructive by design and never silently trims, degrades, or deletes them.
- A vault, not disposable state. Your ideas are long-lived personal creative material. They are built to survive, stay portable, and remain yours.
- Private by default. The core loop works offline, and the app has no internet permission, so nothing it holds can leave your device unless you send it.
Where it came from
I have played piano and guitar since I was a kid, and I never stopped improvising. Over the years that became a growing pile of session recordings, scattered across a few hard drives, some old phones, and the one in my pocket now, backed up again every time I changed devices. Solo takes late at night, evenings jamming with a friend, whole rehearsals with my bands. There are moments in there I would love to hear again. The trouble was finding them. Scrubbing through hours of raw audio, spread across all those drives and phones, to locate one idea or one section of one take, was so painful that most of it just sat there, unheard.
Meret is the tool I wished I had for all of that. Catch the moment without breaking it, then later actually find the idea again.
The name
In ancient Egypt, Meret was the goddess of music and song. She was pictured setting the rhythm with her hands, the one who brought things into their proper order through sound. Music was not noise to be filed away. It was how order was made. The app is drawn the same way its namesake worked: capture the moment cleanly, then bring it into order, so none of your ideas are lost. The coral dot in the wordmark is the one spot of the color of action, and it is the color of the record button too.
Who makes Meret
Meret is designed and built by Tarek Raafat. Product and UX design is his profession. Writing code and making music are what he does on his own time, mostly improvising on piano and guitar. Meret sits right where those meet: a problem he has as a musician, worked on by someone who designs software for a living. It grew out of his own recordings, scattered across years of hard drives and phones, and the simple wish to find anything in them. It is made with care, kept honest about exactly how it works, and answerable to the musicians who use it. There are no investors to satisfy and no advertisers to serve, which is why it can afford to collect nothing at all and to put your creative flow ahead of everything else.
Get in touch
Questions or ideas about Meret? Email hello@meret.app. For anything about privacy or security, write to support@meret.app. You can also read the privacy policy, the security page, and the terms of use.