a tarot reading, written for you, and sealed from us.
Cards drawn for the question you're asking. A reading composed in the moment, then sealed to your devices.
begin.for iPhone and iPad.
A real mercuri reading
translated, not illustrated
Know the card or don't. The reading answers you either way.
Why does it feel like I'm watching myself make the same mistake again?
the pattern i keep repeating
The Part You're Still Playing
You already know it's a mistake while you're making it — that's what makes this particular loop so exhausting.
I
the mistake itself
The Magician
upright
The mistake isn't something that happens to you. You built it with both hands and your best tools.
You are the one making this happen. That's not an accusation — it's actually the most useful thing in front of you, because it means the mechanism is yours to examine. The Magician has everything on the table: the tools, the will, the capability. What he's doing with all of it is the question. You are not stumbling into this. You are constructing it, carefully, with real skill, from materials you know how to use. The mistake isn't a lapse. It's a performance — and you're very good at it.
You're not someone who keeps making the same mistake. You're someone who keeps believing the same exception.
the same reading from the top of this page (four cards drawn, one shown here)
the part most apps don't want you to ask about
What you ask, we don't save.
Nobody opens a tarot app to ask something easy. It's the end of a bad day, or the middle of a spiral over someone you can't stop thinking about, or a question you'd never say out loud to a person who knows you. That's exactly the kind of thing most apps like this quietly keep. mercuri is built not to.
Your reading is sealed from us.
Your question is used to write your reading, and we don't save it: no row in a database, no log, no backup. Your reading is sealed to keys only your devices hold, and nothing we have can open it, even on request.
Not your name. Not your email. Not your date of birth.
Tarot doesn't need a birth chart, so we never ask. mercuri only knows that you're you, across your own devices.
Your journal never touches our servers at all.
It syncs through your own iCloud account, the same way Notes or Reminders do. We couldn't read it if we wanted to. We've simply never had it.
No third-party analytics. No ad trackers. No profile of you.
Zero third-party SDKs. What we do count, like how many readings you've had against your plan, is tied to a number, never your name. We count to run mercuri, not because we're curious.
priced, not hidden
What it costs, before you need to ask.
readings, free
No timer and no reset: three readings, whenever you need them.
After that, a subscription that matches how often you ask, starting at $3.99 a month, not one price for everyone.