We have been building free, useful tools for Nepalis, at home and around the world, since 2013. No ads chasing you. No accounts. Just tools that work.
Merokalam began in 2013 as a blog with a single purpose: help Nepalis navigate the small but genuinely frustrating digital gaps that came from living between two calendar systems, two font standards, and one internet that wasn't built with Nepali in mind.
The Preeti to Unicode Converter was the first tool, created to solve the everyday frustration of converting legacy Preeti text into Unicode. Then came the Unicode to Preeti converter, as offices across Nepal were still stuck using legacy fonts with no easy way out. After that, tools for postal codes, land measurements, and more followed: each one built to solve real problems people in Nepal actually face.
Today Merokalam Tools is used by thousands of Nepalis every day: students converting certificates, families checking names for newborns, small business owners calculating loan EMIs, restaurants generating QR codes for their menus, and parents abroad reminding themselves when Dashain is this year. Each tool exists because someone needed it.
We are not done. The list of tools we want to build is longer than the list of tools we have built. Every year we add more.
Right now our focus is simple: improve the tools people already use every day and add new features where they genuinely save time. That means better mobile layouts, clearer results, stronger document handling, faster calculators, and more useful details inside each tool.
We will continue adding new tools too, but carefully. If a feature does not solve a real Nepali problem, it can wait. If you have a tool idea that would help students, offices, families, small businesses, or Nepalis living abroad, we want to hear about it.