Comparison

CooliApp vs Hermes Conduit

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

Head to head
About

CooliApp

Manage your self-hosted cloud infrastructure directly from your iPhone. Monitor projects, services, and servers, track deployments in real-time, and view live logs. Includes home screen widgets for at-a-glance status updates.

Highlights
  • Manage projects, environments, and services
  • View application details and deployment history
  • Monitor server status
  • Track real-time deployments
  • Home screen widgets for infrastructure status
  • Connect multiple Coolify instances
  • Secure API token storage
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CooliApp is the companion app for Coolify, the open-source self-hosting platform. Manage your entire cloud infrastructure directly from your iPhone. Projects & Services Browse your projects, environments, and services at a glance. View application details, check deployment history, and read live logs — all without opening a browser. Servers Keep an eye on all your connected servers. Quickly verify which servers are online and access their details in seconds. Deployments Track your deployments in real-time. See queued, in-progress, and completed deployments with automatic status polling so you always know what's happening. Home Screen Widgets Add health check widgets for your instances, applications, and services directly to your home screen. Know the status of your infrastructure at a glance without even opening the app. Multi-Instance Support Connect multiple Coolify instances and switch between them effortlessly. Built for Privacy Your API tokens are stored securely on your device. CooliApp connects directly to your Coolify instances — no third-party servers involved. Designed for iOS - Native SwiftUI interface with light and dark mode - Face ID / Touch ID lock for added security - Customizable tab bar - Follow Coolify releases from the app CooliApp requires a self-hosted Coolify instance (v4+) with API access enabled.

About

Hermes Conduit

This mobile client provides access to your personal AI agent, allowing you to chat, talk, and manage tasks from your devices. It offers real-time voice calls, context-aware chat, and control over your agent's bots and jobs.

Highlights
  • Real-time voice calls with AI models
  • Context-aware chat with rich media support
  • Task management and bot interaction
  • Voice control for jobs and calls
  • Cross-device session synchronization
  • Customizable AI agent skills and tools
Features
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Hermes Conduit is an independent client for your own Hermes agent, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Your sessions, profiles, bots and tools are the same ones you use on desktop, in a touch-first app built for chatting, talking, and keeping an eye on your agent while you're away from your desk. TALK TO HERMES • Real-time voice calls with Gemini Live, Qwen Live, GPT-Live and Grok Live, or Local Live on your own speech server, with echo cancellation and interruption • Start, check and cancel Hermes jobs by voice, with results folded back into the call • Calls stay with the chat you started them from, keep going with the screen locked, shrink to a bar while you read, and are saved as chats • Hermes can call you when a job is done or it needs your answer; pick up like a normal call, even on your Watch • Talk from Apple Watch on its own, from CarPlay, from Siri, or with a wake phrase • Classic voice and dictation with spoken Stop and End, plus Read Aloud for any reply CHAT WITHOUT LOSING CONTEXT • Pick up desktop sessions and project chats where you left them, with replies streaming in live • Markdown, highlighted code, math, Mermaid diagrams and task lists • Map, place, travel, media, contact and info cards that Hermes draws right in the chat • Follow thinking, tool calls and each turn's steps, or keep them folded away • Answer Hermes' questions with a tap or a short form • Attach photos, camera shots and any file, or drag them in; long pastes become attachments • Swipe through pictures full screen; quote, react to, edit and resend messages • Browse every file and artifact Hermes made, and your project folders • On iPad and Mac, resize the chat list and chat columns; text grows with the window TASKS, BOTS AND PULSE • Tasks board: follow Hermes' Kanban tasks and add new ones • Open your Hermes bots and their Bot Chats; set each bot's model, skills and tools • Group chats with your bots and @mentions • Review, run and edit scheduled jobs • Pulse (beta): turn it on and Hermes brings things up on its own, from a morning brief to follow-ups on your plans YOUR PHONE, IF YOU ALLOW IT Every one is off until you turn it on, and goes only to your own Hermes host: • Location and place rules, travel times and directions • Calendar and reminders, with each change asked first • Apple Health data • Focus, alarms and timers, and contacts you pick • Ask Hermes about what's on your screen, or send anything to it from Shortcuts or the share sheet STAY IN CONTROL • Approve tools and answer questions straight from a notification, end-to-end encrypted between your host and your phone • Live Activities for a running reply on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • Home Screen widgets to start a chat or talk in one tap • Switch providers, models and reasoning effort mid-conversation; watch context use; steer, queue or stop a turn • Branch, pin, archive and delete sessions; switch profiles and Hermes servers • Turn skills, tools, connectors and plugins on or off • Face ID or Touch ID lock, credentials kept in the Keychain EASY TO SET UP Sign in with your dashboard address, a QR code or a setup link from your agent. Install the free Hermes Conduit Notifier plugin on your host for notifications, voice calls, cards and phone features. BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTED HERMES Conduit connects to the Hermes dashboard you run, and in live voice calls to the voice provider you choose. It is not a hosted AI service, and a working Hermes installation is required. Free, with no ads, no analytics and no tracking. If Conduit crashes or freezes, it asks once whether to send that report (call stacks, app and iOS version, device model) to its developer, and sends nothing unless you tap Send. Available in English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Hermes Conduit is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nous Research.

Screenshots

CooliApp4 screens
Hermes Conduit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: CooliApp at 5.0 against Hermes Conduit's 4.7. CooliApp also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Hermes Conduit's advantage is ratings volume (50 vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CooliApp holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Conduit has 50 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of CooliApp's written reviews are positive against 81% of Hermes Conduit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CooliApp ships an update every 2 weeks, Hermes Conduit weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
CooliApp versus Hermes Conduit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCooliAppHermes Conduit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (50 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better80.6% of reviews
Number of ratings250 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#65 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB90 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAurel TysonLong Cheung Ho

Customer experience

CooliApp

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hermes Conduit

All ratings42 ratings
Positive90.5%
Neutral2.4%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral5.6%
Negative13.9%

In-app purchases

None

CooliApp

No in-app purchases

None

Hermes Conduit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CooliApp free?
CooliApp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hermes Conduit free?
Hermes Conduit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CooliApp or Hermes Conduit?
CooliApp is rated higher. CooliApp averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Hermes Conduit averages 4.7 from 50 ratings.
Do CooliApp or Hermes Conduit have ads?
Neither CooliApp nor Hermes Conduit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CooliApp or Hermes Conduit?
CooliApp ships an update every 2 weeks, and Hermes Conduit weekly. Most recently, CooliApp was updated on November 9, 2026 and Hermes Conduit on November 5, 2026.

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