NeonLens vs Hermex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NeonLens
Manage your serverless Postgres databases on the go with this native iOS dashboard. Browse project lists, view branches and endpoints, and inspect table data with filtering and sorting. Unlock detailed analytics with a one-time purchase.
- Mobile Neon DB dashboard
- View project lists and compute status
- Browse branches, endpoints, and roles
- Table viewer with row data
- Filter, sort, and copy data
- Read-only access for data integrity
- Unlockable consumption analytics
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NeonLens is a native iOS app for managing your Neon databases on the go. If you use Neon for serverless Postgres, this gives you a proper mobile dashboard without the browser. Connect with your Neon API key and you get your full project list with live compute status. Drill into any project to see branches, endpoints, databases, and roles. The table viewer lets you browse actual row data directly from your phone, paginate through rows, filter columns, sort by any field, and copy values with a long press. The app is entirely read only so no worries about data integrity! Your API key is stored in the iOS Keychain and never leaves your device. No backend, no analytics, no accounts. Just you and the Neon API. Pro features (one-time purchase): Unlock detailed consumption analytics for your account. See daily compute hours charted across your billing period, storage and data transfer gauges with warning indicators when you're approaching limits, and a per-project breakdown sorted by usage so you know exactly what's eating your quota.
Hermex
This app provides a native mobile interface for interacting with your self-hosted Hermes Agent server. It allows you to manage conversations, control agent settings, and access workspace files directly from your iPhone.
- Connect to your own Hermes server
- Manage existing and start new conversations
- Control models, profiles, and reasoning
- Attach files and photos
- Browse workspace files
- Offline read-only viewing of recent sessions
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Hermex is a native iPhone and iPad client for your self-hosted Hermes agent. Connect to a reachable Hermes Web UI server, or enable the optional Bot Mode beta to connect directly to a Hermes agent host. Open existing sessions, start conversations, and follow streamed responses, tools, and reasoning as they arrive. Queue, steer, or stop an active run. Review file edits as diffs, browse workspace files, send photos and files, and dictate messages. Manage Kanban boards and cards, browse Tasks, Skills, Memory, and Usage, and choose models, profiles, and reasoning settings. Bot Mode adds a Bots inbox, Desktop sections, reactions, quick replies, approvals, questions, and group rooms. Live Activities keep working runs visible on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Optional notifications let you know when work finishes or needs your attention. The share extension stages content from other apps for you to review and send. Agent execution happens on your configured server, not on the iPhone. Your server owns your conversations, tools, and workspace. Recent sessions and messages may be cached locally for read-only offline viewing; clear that cache from Settings. There is no Hermex-hosted agent backend, tracking, or analytics service. Optional push notifications use an open-source, self-hostable relay. Message previews are encrypted on your Hermes host and decrypted on your iPhone; the relay handles device tokens, notification metadata, and ciphertext, never message text, server URLs, or Hermes server credentials. Push is off until enabled. Hermex has no in-app account creation or in-app purchases. You need your own reachable Hermes server. Not affiliated with Nous Research.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hermex at none against NeonLens's 1. Hermex also leads on ratings volume (135 vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks). NeonLens's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. NeonLens sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hermex asks for nothing beyond the download.
NeonLens holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermex has 135 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NeonLens ships an update every 4 weeks, Hermex weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NeonLens | Hermex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (135 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 85.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 135 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #34 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Hurley | Uzair Ansar |
Customer experience
NeonLens
Hermex
In-app purchases
NeonLens
- NeonLens Pro$2.99
Hermex
No in-app purchases









