Comparison

ERMIS 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

ERMIS

Control your self-hosted AI agent from your phone. Manage complex workflows, research topics, draft content, and solve coding problems with a secure, private mobile interface. Ideal for developers and power users seeking advanced AI capabilities beyond basic chatbots.

Highlights
  • Connect to your own Hermes Agent instance
  • Manage AI workflows remotely
  • Research topics and summarize results
  • Draft and edit content
  • Assist with coding and debugging
  • Organize projects and tasks
Features
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ERMIS is your mobile control center for a hosted Hermes AI agent. Instead of using another basic chatbot, Hermes AI lets you connect to your own Hermes Agent instance and manage AI workflows from your phone. Research topics, draft content, solve coding problems, organize projects, and work through multi-step tasks with an agent built for real work. WHAT HERMES AI CAN DO • Connect to your own Hermes Agent instance • Research topics and summarize results • Write, edit, and generate ready-to-use content • Help with coding, debugging, and problem solving • Plan tasks and organize next steps • Support complex multi-step workflows • Manage your AI agent from your phone CONTROL YOUR AI AGENT FROM ANYWHERE Hermes AI gives you a simple mobile interface for working with your own AI agent setup. Set up your Hermes Agent instance, connect securely, and use Hermes AI as a mobile command center for research, writing, coding, planning, and task management. • Access your agent remotely • Manage ongoing tasks from your phone • Keep control over your AI setup • Work with a self-hosted agent environment • Stay productive without being tied to your desk YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR INSTANCE Hermes AI connects to your own Hermes Agent instance. Your AI work runs on the infrastructure you choose, so your prompts, tasks, and workflows are handled by your own setup instead of being processed through our servers. No shared chatbot workspace. No mining your conversations. Your agent, your environment, your control. POWERED BY HERMES AGENT Hermes AI is designed to work with Hermes Agent, the open-source autonomous agent framework from Nous Research. It gives developers, builders, researchers, and power users a mobile way to interact with an AI agent that can plan, reason, use tools, and help complete real work. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT MORE THAN CHAT Use Hermes AI for: • Research and summaries • Writing and editing • Coding help • Productivity and planning • Task execution • Brainstorming and problem solving • Multi-step workflows • Remote access to your AI agent PERFECT FOR • Developers and builders • Power users • Researchers and students • Creators and writers • Privacy-conscious users • People who prefer self-hosted tools • Anyone who wants AI that helps get work done Hermes AI turns your phone into a remote for your own AI agent. Ask once. Get it done with Hermes AI. Policies Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Hermes-AI-Privacy-Policy-30b8e2a74aa4807db3a2c0972544b96b Terms of Use: https://www.notion.so/Hermes-AI-Terms-of-Service-30c8e2a74aa480bbb295ec0cc2c878a1

About

Hermes Redde

This app acts as a client for an open-source AI agent, allowing users to interact with it via voice or text. It offers features like proactive daily summaries, customizable AI bots, and seamless integration with Apple devices for hands-free operation.

Highlights
  • Voice and text interaction with AI agent
  • Customizable AI bots with faces and voices
  • Proactive daily summaries and alerts
  • Hands-free operation with Apple devices
  • Real-time reasoning and tool usage display
  • Cross-device chat synchronization
Features
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Redde is a complete iPhone, iPad and Mac client for Hermes, the open-source AI agent, with CarPlay and an Apple Watch app. Talk or type, watch it work, let it get ahead of your day, and give it a crew: bots with faces and voices of their own. You bring the backend. Redde has no account and no analytics, and your conversations go only to your server, and to a voice service if you pick one. AHEAD OF YOUR DAY • Morning Ideas, a Week Ahead and an Evening Wrap-up arrive as cards to swipe. Before an event, a heads-up says what to bring, and Leave-By Alerts work out from your calendar and Apple Maps when to go. • "Let me know when it ships", "check back Friday": watches and follow-ups come back on their own. Places tell your agent you've arrived; Health-aware days, if you allow. • Answers come as cards: your day as a timeline, the weather by the hour, places on a map, an email to check before it sends, a list to tick off. Approvals say in plain words what will happen. BOTS • Each Hermes profile is a bot with a face, a voice and a chat of its own. Start from a template (Researcher, Writer, Coder, Home, Planner) and make its job, model and tools your own. • Type @ to hand work to another bot, or put two to six in a group chat. Give one a schedule and its answer arrives with a notification, even with Redde closed. TALK, DON'T TYPE • Tap the mic or say "Hey" and your agent's name, ask, hear the answer, or show it what the camera sees. Speech is recognized on your device; replies are read by the built-in voice, Kokoro, ElevenLabs or your Hermes. • Or talk live, interrupting any time, with GPT-Live, Gemini Live, Grok Voice or ElevenLabs on your own key. An agent you allow can call you. • Hands-free until you say "that's all". CarPlay, Apple Watch, Siri, widgets and the Action Button. Spoken prefixes switch models or go to a bot: "Opus, review this diff". SEE THE AGENT WORK • Reasoning and tool calls live, with a Live Activity; lock the phone and it carries on. • Approve or answer from a notification, out loud, or with a nod in AirPods. Notifications reach you with Redde closed, encrypted end to end. A FULL CLIENT • Chats live in your gateway's session ledger: start on the phone, continue on the desktop. Search, pin, fork, archive, or go incognito. • Projects, scheduled jobs, the Kanban board, skills, plugins, memory, MCP servers, files and an SSH terminal. • Phone tools: your agent can use your calendar, reminders, contacts, photos and files, set alarms and start calls and texts, each only if you allow it. • Markdown, code, tables, diagrams and math; pictures, PDFs and audio open in place. • Attach photos, files or a day's calendar, or share from any app. Regenerate, edit and resend, or switch models with /model. YOUR BACKEND, YOUR RULES • Connect through the Hermes Dashboard or the Hermes API, on your LAN, over a tailnet, or behind Cloudflare Access, Pangolin or a reverse proxy. Several servers in one list, synced with iCloud. Sign in with a password or a browser. • Or go straight to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint: llama.cpp, llama-swap, vLLM, Ollama or a hosted provider. • Set up by QR code or link. Credentials stay in the Keychain; a key your agent asks for goes sealed straight to your server. • In 17 languages. Face ID lock, seven themes, iPad split view, iPhone Duo, and a native Mac app. • 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

ERMIS4 screens
Hermes Redde4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hermes Redde at 4.9 against ERMIS's 4.0. Hermes Redde also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). ERMIS's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. ERMIS sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Hermes Redde sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hermes Redde holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Redde has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of ERMIS's written reviews are positive against 80% of Hermes Redde's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ERMIS ships an update every 5 days, Hermes Redde every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ERMIS versus Hermes Redde: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterERMISHermes Redde
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)4.9 (30 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings430 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB62 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperIlya VishneuskiGoosehouse LLC

Customer experience

ERMIS

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Hermes Redde

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral3.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

ERMIS

Subscriptions4
  • Premium3 Days trial$12.991 Month
  • Premium3 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Premium3 Days trial$129.991 Year
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  • Premium3 Days trial$199.991 Year
3 purchases

Hermes Redde

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

Questions

Is ERMIS free?
ERMIS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hermes Redde free?
Hermes Redde is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ERMIS or Hermes Redde?
Hermes Redde is rated higher. ERMIS averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Hermes Redde averages 4.9 from 30 ratings.
Do ERMIS or Hermes Redde have ads?
Neither ERMIS nor Hermes Redde shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ERMIS or Hermes Redde?
ERMIS ships an update every 5 days, and Hermes Redde every 2 days. Most recently, ERMIS was updated on November 7, 2026 and Hermes Redde on November 6, 2026.

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