Comparison

LocalNote vs Hermes Chat

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

Head to head
About

LocalNote

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LocalNote turns meetings, lectures, interviews, and ideas into private, searchable voice notes on iPhone and iPad. Record first. After you stop, LocalNote transcribes the audio, builds a searchable transcript, and keeps the recording ready for replay. CAPTURE WHAT MATTERS - Record with one tap - Mark Bookmark, Important, To-Do, Question, or Idea moments as you go - Pause, resume, and recover from common audio interruptions - Add text-only notes when audio is not needed TURN AUDIO INTO USEFUL NOTES - Review and edit the transcript - Generate Executive, Key Points, or Action Items summaries - Ask questions about one note at a time - Create custom summary formats - Search titles, transcripts, summaries, and tags - Use AI Search to broaden a search when exact words are missing - Share note text and recordings with other apps PRIVATE BY DESIGN - No LocalNote account - No LocalNote cloud-notes backend - Recordings, transcripts, summaries, tags, and answers stay on your device unless you choose to share them - Apple speech and on-device language technologies do the processing; feature availability depends on compatible devices and required downloaded assets TRY IT BEFORE YOU SUBSCRIBE Preview a sample note or record your own example before choosing a plan. A monthly or yearly subscription is required to save notes and unlock the full app. Purchases are processed by Apple through your Apple ID. Please ask permission before recording other people and follow local laws. Privacy Policy: https://localvoicenotes.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://localvoicenotes.com/terms Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Hermes Chat

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HermesChat์€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์†Œ์œ ํ•œ ์„œ๋ฒ„(Mac mini, VPS)์—์„œ ์‹คํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ(Hermes)๋ฅผ iPhone์—์„œ ์›๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ๋…ยท์ง€์‹œยท๊ด€๋ฆฌํ•˜๋Š” ๋„ค์ดํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ iOS ํด๋ผ์ด์–ธํŠธ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ChatGPTยทClaude ์•ฑ์€ ๋‚ด ์„œ๋ฒ„ยทํŒŒ์ผยท๋„๊ตฌ์— ์ ‘๊ทผํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. HermesChat์€ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋‚ด ์ปดํ“จํ„ฐ์—์„œ ์ž‘์—…ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋‚˜๋Š” ์–ด๋””์„œ๋“  iPhone์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ๋…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ์ œ๊ณตํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ใ€์ฃผ์š” ๊ธฐ๋Šฅใ€‘ โ— AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ์ฑ„ํŒ… ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ŠคํŠธ๋ฆฌ๋ฐ ์‘๋‹ต, ์ด๋ฏธ์ง€ยทํŒŒ์ผ ์ฒจ๋ถ€, ๋งˆํฌ๋‹ค์šด ๋ Œ๋”๋ง, ์ฝ”๋“œ ๋ธ”๋ก ํ•˜์ด๋ผ์ดํŒ… โ— ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ ํ”„๋กœํ•„ ๊ด€๋ฆฌ ์—ญํ• ๋ณ„(์—ฐ๊ตฌ์›ยท๊ฐœ๋ฐœ์žยท์ž‘๊ฐ€ ๋“ฑ) ๋…๋ฆฝ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ํ”„๋กœํ•„์„ 2ร—3 ๋ณด๋“œ์—์„œ ํ•œ๋ˆˆ์— ๊ด€๋ฆฌ โ— Deep Think โ€” ๋ฉ€ํ‹ฐ LLM ๋ณ‘๋ ฌ ํ† ๋ก  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ AI ๋ชจ๋ธ์ด ๋™์‹œ์— ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜๊ณ  ํ•ฉ์˜์•ˆ์„ ๋„์ถœ. ๋ณต์žกํ•œ ์˜์‚ฌ๊ฒฐ์ •๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ์— ์ตœ์  โ— ์Œ์„ฑ ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋งˆ์ดํฌ ๋ฒ„ํŠผ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋กœ ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด ์Œ์„ฑ ์ž…๋ ฅ, AI ์‘๋‹ต์„ TTS๋กœ ์ฒญ์ทจ. ํ•ธ์ฆˆํ”„๋ฆฌ ์—ฐ์† ๋Œ€ํ™” ์ง€์› โ— ์นธ๋ฐ˜ ๋ณด๋“œ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ๊ฐ€ ์ˆ˜ํ–‰ ์ค‘์ธ ์ž‘์—…์„ To-do / In Progress / Done์œผ๋กœ ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ถ”์  โ— ๋ณด์•ˆ ํผ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ชจ๋“  API ํ‚ค๋Š” iPhone์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ์†Œ์œ  ์„œ๋ฒ„์— ์ €์žฅ. iPhone๊ณผ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ๊ฐ„ ํ†ต์‹ ์€ Tailscale ์‚ฌ์„ค VPN ๋˜๋Š” JWT ์ธ์ฆ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ. ๋ฏผ๊ฐ ์ •๋ณด๋Š” iOS Keychain์— ์ €์žฅ ใ€์‚ฌ์šฉ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•ใ€‘ 1. ์•ฑ ์„ค์น˜ ํ›„ ์„œ๋ฒ„ ์ฃผ์†Œ ์ž…๋ ฅ (์ž์ฒด ํ˜ธ์ŠคํŒ…) ๋˜๋Š” Apple๋กœ ๋กœ๊ทธ์ธ (ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ ๋ชจ๋“œ) 2. AI ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ํ”„๋กœํ•„ ์„ ํƒ 3. ์ฑ„ํŒ…ยท์Œ์„ฑยท์นธ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœ ์—์ด์ „ํŠธ ์ง€์‹œ ๋ฐ ์ž‘์—… ํ™•์ธ ใ€๊ฐœ์ธ์ •๋ณด ๋ณดํ˜ธใ€‘ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋Š” Tailscale ์‚ฌ์„ค๋ง ๋˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ์šฉ์ž๋ณ„ ๊ฒฉ๋ฆฌ ์ปจํ…Œ์ด๋„ˆ ์•ˆ์—์„œ๋งŒ ํ๋ฆ…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ณต๊ฐœ ํด๋ผ์šฐ๋“œ์— ๋Œ€ํ™” ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ €์žฅํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Screenshots

LocalNote4 screens
Hermes Chat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hermes Chat at none against LocalNote's 2. Hermes Chat also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. LocalNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Hermes Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
LocalNote versus Hermes Chat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLocalNoteHermes Chat
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid BalderstonKibaek Jeon

In-app purchases

2 purchases

LocalNote

Subscriptions2
  • LocalNote Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • LocalNote Yearly Subscription$19.991 Year
None

Hermes Chat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LocalNote free?
LocalNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hermes Chat free?
Hermes Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do LocalNote or Hermes Chat have ads?
Neither LocalNote nor Hermes Chat shows ads.

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