Comparison

Onepilot 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

Onepilot

Access your servers and AI coding agents from your phone. Manage files, run scheduled tasks, and control AI agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes on the go. Pick up your work from anywhere with a real terminal experience.

Highlights
  • Real terminal on your phone
  • Browse and upload files
  • AI coding agents integration
  • Schedule agents and tasks
  • Manage agents across machines
  • Agent customization and marketplace
Features
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Your servers and your AI agents, in your pocket. Onepilot is the iOS app that runs your AI agents and server fleet on machines you own. Connect to any server, Mac, or VPS over SSH, then deploy, monitor, and manage agents across all of them from one place. Direct SSH to hardware you control: your keys and your code never touch the cloud. WHO IT IS FOR For developers, indie hackers, and sysadmins who run AI coding agents on remote machines and want to deploy, watch, and control them from a phone. PILLAR ONE: A REAL TERMINAL, PLUS THE TOOLS AROUND IT A full SSH terminal, not a chat box, with the modern dev workflow built in: browse and edit remote files, review git diffs, forward localhost to preview your dev server, and run terminal CLIs like Claude Code in a real session, exactly as you would on your laptop. Pair a server once with the onepilot CLI (one npm install and a QR scan) and your sessions become persistent: your shell keeps running on your own server through app closes and connection drops, and greets you with full scrollback when you return. SEE YOUR AGENTS THINK Onepilot detects the coding agent sessions running on your servers (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) and streams them live: follow every step as it happens, scroll the full transcript, then jump into the terminal to take over. PILLAR TWO: DEPLOY AND MANAGE AN AGENT FLEET Spin up a persistent AI agent in minutes with a guided wizard, no config files: pick a framework like OpenClaw or Hermes, choose a model, add your keys, connect a channel, and Onepilot keeps it running on your server. Watch every agent across every machine from a single view; swap the model, rotate a key, or adjust behavior anytime. KNOW WHEN SOMETHING BREAKS Fleet monitoring watches CPU, memory, disk, load, and your Docker containers on every paired host, learns each machine's normal, and sends a push notification when something drifts. Alerts are calm by design: one notification when a problem starts, spaced reminders while it lasts, and a recovery note when it heals. Drill into any container for live performance charts. RUNS WHILE YOU SLEEP Put any agent or task on a schedule with cron and let your fleet work overnight. This is automation no plain SSH client offers: your agents run even when your phone is asleep. SET UP ONCE, REUSE EVERYWHERE Store your keys and chat tokens one time, then reuse them across every agent. Give your agents new skills from a community marketplace. WHY ONEPILOT A plain SSH client connects you to a shell. Onepilot gives you that shell plus a full dev ecosystem around it, and an agent operations layer on top: deploy, monitor, alert, schedule, and manage a fleet of AI agents on your own servers. One app for every machine and every agent, not a remote control for one. Ships worldwide.

About

Hermes Conduit

This mobile client allows you to connect to a Hermes agent gateway from your iPhone. It provides a touch-first interface for conversations, monitoring, and controlling agent workflows away from your desktop. Supports rich text, file attachments, and detailed session management.

Highlights
  • Continue desktop sessions
  • Stream responses in real-time
  • Rich text and code rendering
  • File and image attachments
  • Session control and monitoring
  • Profile and skill management
  • Gateway log monitoring
Features
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Hermes Conduit is an independent client for your own Hermes agent, on iPhone, iPad 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, GPT-Live and Grok Live, or Local Live on your own speech server: natural conversation with echo cancellation and interruption, not speak, wait, reply • 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, and shrink to a bar while you read • Hermes can call you: ask it to ring when a job is done and answer like a normal phone call, even from 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 and info cards that Hermes draws right in the chat • Follow thinking, tool calls and each turn's steps, or keep them folded away • Attach photos, camera shots and any file; quote text, react to messages • Browse every file and artifact Hermes made, across all chats or in one • Saved chats open instantly and you can type while Conduit reconnects TASKS, BOTS AND GROUPS • Tasks board: follow Hermes' Kanban tasks and add new ones • Open your Hermes bots and their Bot Chats; add them to group chats and mention anyone with @ • Review, run and manage scheduled jobs 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 • Alarms and timers, and contacts you pick • Ask Hermes about what's on your screen, or send anything to it from Shortcuts STAY IN CONTROL • Approve tools and answer questions straight from a notification, end-to-end encrypted between your host and your phone • Live Activities show a running reply on the Lock Screen and in the 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 or stop a turn • Branch, pin, archive and delete sessions; switch profiles and Hermes servers • Turn skills, tools, connectors and plugins on or off, and read gateway logs • 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, no ads, no analytics. 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

Onepilot4 screens
Hermes Conduit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hermes Conduit at none against Onepilot's 3. Hermes Conduit also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and device support (3 vs 1). Onepilot's advantage is review sentiment (87% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, ratings volume, 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. Onepilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Hermes Conduit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hermes Conduit holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 37 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Onepilot's written reviews are positive against 67% of Hermes Conduit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Onepilot ships an update every 3 days, Hermes Conduit weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Onepilot versus Hermes Conduit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnepilotHermes Conduit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (14 ratings)4.6 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1437 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#197#37 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB70 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSOFIANE EL MOKADDAMLong Cheung Ho

Customer experience

Onepilot

All ratings17 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral4.3%
Negative8.7%

Hermes Conduit

All ratings35 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral2.9%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral9.5%
Negative23.8%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Onepilot

Subscriptions3
  • Onepilot monthly$7.991 Month
  • Onepilot yearly launch3 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • Onepilot Pro - Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

Hermes Conduit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Onepilot free?
Onepilot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hermes Conduit free?
Hermes Conduit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Onepilot or Hermes Conduit?
Hermes Conduit is rated higher. Onepilot averages 4.1 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Hermes Conduit averages 4.6 from 37 ratings.
Do Onepilot or Hermes Conduit have ads?
Neither Onepilot nor Hermes Conduit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Onepilot or Hermes Conduit?
Onepilot ships an update every 3 days, and Hermes Conduit weekly. Most recently, Onepilot was updated on October 25, 2026 and Hermes Conduit on October 25, 2026.
Which is more popular, Onepilot or Hermes Conduit?
Onepilot currently peaks at #197 in the App Store charts, and Hermes Conduit at #37. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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