Comparison

Rep 1 vs Hermes Redde

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Rep 1

Connect with mentors and community opportunities based on shared values. This app helps individuals become advocates for causes they believe in through goal-driven teams, storytelling, and collaboration. It aims to foster healthier, purpose-driven behaviors and personal growth.

Highlights
  • Connect with mentors
  • Find community opportunities
  • Goal-driven teams
  • Pitch-ready storytelling
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Clarify career goals
  • Grow income through community involvement
Features
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Rep connects people with mentors and community opportunities based on shared values. Our software is designed to help communities better focus on the priorities that matter most. Unlike social media that keeps you scrolling, Rep works in the background to connect you with action, not distraction. Rep turns everyday people into world-class advocates for the organizations and initiatives they believe in—through goal-driven teams, pitch-ready storytelling, and real-time collaboration. Rep helps you: • Clarify career goals and receive support • Grow your income through meaningful community involvement • Connect with mentors who care about your holistic growth • Join local, in-person opportunities to build real relationships • Accelerate the causes you care about Rep is your personal network accelerator, working in the background to help you become your best self. Think of it as a purpose-driven Rolodex.

About

Hermes Redde

Interact with AI agents through voice or text, manage their tasks, and view their reasoning process. This client connects to your own AI backend, offering features like hands-free operation and CarPlay integration for seamless interaction.

Highlights
  • Voice and text interaction with AI agents
  • Approve or deny agent commands
  • View agent reasoning and tool usage
  • Hands-free and CarPlay modes
  • Manage sessions, projects, and jobs
  • Supports OpenAI-compatible models
  • Rich media replies including images and diagrams
Features
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Redde is a complete iPhone and iPad client for Hermes, the open-source AI agent, with CarPlay and an Apple Watch app. Talk or type, watch it think and use tools, approve what it runs, and give it a crew: bots with faces and voices of their own, alone or in group chats. You bring the backend. Redde has no account and no analytics, and your conversations go only to the server you configured. BOTS • Each Hermes profile is a bot with a face, a voice and a chat of its own. Start one from a template (Researcher, Writer, Coder, Home, Planner) and make its job, personality, model, face and tools your own. • Type @ to hand work to another bot. Put two to six in a group chat and they answer in turn; talk to the room and each answers in its own voice. • Give a bot a schedule and its answer arrives in its chat, with a notification, even with Redde closed. Mute any chat for a while. • Ask a bot from Siri, CarPlay, the Apple Watch or a spoken word. TALK, DON'T TYPE • Tap the mic, ask, hear the answer, or show it what the camera sees. Speech is recognized on your iPhone; the reply is spoken by the built-in voice, a Kokoro server or your Hermes. • Hands-free mode keeps the conversation going until you say "that's all". Talk over an answer, or type, to steer it. • In CarPlay, ask through the car's mic and speakers, in a new chat, a recent one or a bot's. On Apple Watch, raise your wrist and ask. • "Hey Siri, ask Redde…" works from the Lock Screen and AirPods. A Control Center button, a widget or the Action Button starts listening. • Spoken prefixes: a word you chose adds a text prefix, switches model or goes to a bot: "Opus, review this diff". • Siri takes notes for your agent; Shortcuts can ask it things. SEE THE AGENT WORK • Watch reasoning and tool calls live, with a Live Activity; lock the phone and the reply carries on. • The list shows what's working, what needs you and what's unread. • Approve a risky command or answer the agent's question from a notification, out loud, or with a nod in AirPods. Pair your Hermes and notifications arrive with Redde closed, encrypted end to end. A FULL CLIENT, NOT JUST A MIC • Conversations live in your gateway's session ledger: start on the phone, continue on the desktop, Telegram or the CLI. Search inside them, pin, rename, fork, archive, or go incognito. • Projects, scheduled jobs and the Kanban board. • Phone tools: your agent can use your iPhone's calendar, reminders, contacts, photos and files, set alarms, write on a widget, and start calls and texts, each only if you allow it. • Rich replies: Markdown, code, tables, Mermaid diagrams, math, and cards with maps, places and the weather. Pictures, PDFs and audio open in place. • Select part of a reply and ask about it. Regenerate, edit and resend, or switch models with /model. • Attach photos, videos, files or a day's calendar, or share from any app. • Skills, tools, memory and context files; on the server, MCP servers, logs, updates, files and an SSH terminal. YOUR BACKEND, YOUR RULES • Connect to Hermes through the Hermes Dashboard or the Hermes API, on your LAN, over a tailnet, or behind Cloudflare Access or a reverse proxy. Save several servers, see all their chats in one list, and sync them with iCloud. Sign in with a password or a browser. • Or go straight to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint: llama.cpp, llama-swap, vLLM or Ollama on your hardware, or a hosted provider with your key. • Set up by QR code or link. Credentials stay in the Keychain. • Face ID lock, seven themes with your own colors, app icons and voice orbs, iPad split view, iPhone Duo, keyboard shortcuts. • The one service we run is an optional relay for notifications, which can't read them. REQUIRES A Hermes agent (github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint; bots need Hermes. Redde includes no model and no AI service of its own. Hermes is an open-source project by Nous Research. Redde is an independent client, not affiliated with it.

Screenshots

Rep 13 screens
Hermes Redde4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rep 1 at none against Hermes Redde's 3. Rep 1 also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Hermes Redde's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days) and ratings volume (17 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hermes Redde sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Rep 1 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Rep 1 against 4.9 for Hermes Redde. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Redde has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rep 1 ships an update every 10 days, Hermes Redde every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Rep 1 versus Hermes Redde: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRep 1Hermes Redde
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (17 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings217 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB44 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAdam NovakGoosehouse LLC

Customer experience

Rep 1

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hermes Redde

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Rep 1

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Hermes Redde

One-time3
  • A Coffee$2.99
  • A snack$4.99
  • A dinner$9.99

Questions

Is Rep 1 free?
Rep 1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hermes Redde free?
Hermes Redde is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Rep 1 or Hermes Redde?
Rep 1 is rated higher. Rep 1 averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Hermes Redde averages 4.9 from 17 ratings.
Do Rep 1 or Hermes Redde have ads?
Neither Rep 1 nor Hermes Redde shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rep 1 or Hermes Redde?
Rep 1 ships an update every 10 days, and Hermes Redde every 2 days. Most recently, Rep 1 was updated on October 20, 2026 and Hermes Redde on October 24, 2026.

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