WhisperCode vs Hermes Conduit

OpenCode Desktop ported to IOS + WhisperKit Speech-to-text. Code from anywhere with world class speech-to-text! Open source: https://github.com/DNGriffin/whispercode Free, no telemetry, no junk! True to Official OpenCode Desktop experience with small tweaks for Mobile.

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 an app built for chatting, talking and checking in while you're away from your desk. YOUR BOTS, ONE TAP AWAY • Bots Home shows your bots as portraits: tap one for its Bot Chat, drag them into your order, or drop one on another to start a group chat • Group chats with @mentions, a lead bot or everyone answering, and a status for each bot under the title • Bots hand bigger jobs to workstreams and report back when they finish or need you • Set each bot's model, skills and tools, and give it a picture from Image Playground, a GIF or a still brought to life • Bot Screen: watch a bot's desktop on a Linux host and take over for a sign-in 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, in your language • Start, check and cancel Hermes jobs by voice • Calls keep going with the screen locked 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 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 tables • Cards Hermes draws in the chat: maps, places, travel, diffs of its changes, and boards with sortable tables, plans and checklists • Follow thinking, tool calls and steps, or fold them away • Attach photos and any file, or drag them in; quote, 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 AND PULSE • Tasks board: follow Hermes' Kanban tasks and add new ones • Review, run and edit scheduled jobs • Pulse (beta): 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, travel times and directions • Calendar and reminders, with each change asked first • Apple Health data, Focus, alarms, timers and contacts you pick • Ask Hermes about your screen, or send it anything from Shortcuts or the share sheet STAY IN CONTROL • Approve tools from a notification, end-to-end encrypted, or from Needs you, which gathers every approval waiting • Live Activities, and Home Screen widgets to start a chat or talk in one tap • Connect model providers from the app, with one API key for every profile • Switch models and reasoning effort mid-conversation; steer, queue or stop a turn • Turn skills, tools, connectors and plugins on or off; switch profiles and Hermes servers • 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.