Vellum Assistant vs HermesPilot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vellum Assistant
This AI assistant learns your work habits and thought processes to help you stay on top of tasks. It syncs across devices, providing quick summaries of communications and access to past notes. Over time, it becomes an indispensable teammate.
- Learns user work habits
- Syncs across Mac, iPhone, and web
- Summarizes Slack, email, and meetings
- Remembers forgotten tasks and follow-ups
- Accesses past notes and thoughts
- Improves with continued use
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vellum is your personal AI for work and life. It learns how you think, remembers what matters, and helps with the things you care about. With vellum, you're always in control: • Choose where your data lives: vellum Cloud or your own self-hosted vellum • Use any model, bring your own API key, or use vellum-optimized models • Decide what your assistant can access and remember Talk, text, or show vellum what you see with your camera, then use it to: • Catch up on email, Slack, and meetings • Remember follow-ups, tasks, and important details • Plan your day, trips, meals, or workouts • Find old notes, files, and saved links • Think through work and personal decisions • Get help with whatever is in front of you One assistant across iPhone, Mac, and web. Always caught up on what matters to you.
HermesPilot
Manage AI interactions and tasks on the go. This app acts as a mobile command center for AI agents, allowing users to start conversations, send files, and manage AI profiles and skills. It offers a secure personal AI control panel for efficient AI management.
- Start and manage AI conversations
- Send attachments and voice messages
- Read streaming responses and Markdown
- Secure personal AI control panel
- Manage AI profiles, models, and skills
- Schedule AI tasks
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HermesPilot is the mobile command center built for Hermes Agent. Start conversations anytime, pick up instantly, and keep the context flowing without friction. Send attachments or voice, read streaming responses and Markdown, and move fast through every interaction. Pair with Hermes Link to turn your phone into a secure personal AI control panel, where you can manage profiles, models, permissions, skills, memory, and scheduled tasks in one place, and make AI actually work for you. Privacy Policy: https://hermes-site.clawpilot.me/en/legal/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vellum Assistant at none against HermesPilot's 1. HermesPilot's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. HermesPilot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vellum Assistant asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Vellum Assistant against 4.5 for HermesPilot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 24 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Vellum Assistant's written reviews are positive against 88% of HermesPilot's.
Vellum Assistant ships an update every 4 days, HermesPilot every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vellum Assistant | HermesPilot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (17 ratings) | 4.5 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vocify Inc. | Yang Hangbin |
Customer experience
Vellum Assistant
HermesPilot
In-app purchases
Vellum Assistant
No in-app purchases
HermesPilot
- Lifetime Access$9.99
