Comparison

pclip 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

pclip

This app allows users to create and manage companies run entirely by AI agents from their mobile devices. It leverages an open-source project to enable coordination of these agents for task completion.

Highlights
  • Build and run zero-human companies
  • Coordinate AI agent teams
  • Mobile-first company management
  • Leverages open-source AI project
  • Task accomplishment coordination
Features
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pclip lets you build and run a zero-human company from your phone. Built on the open source project "PaperclipAI" it lets anyone coordinate a team of agents to get work accomplished.

About

Hermes Redde

Interact with AI agents through voice or text, manage their tasks, and view their reasoning process. This client connects to your own AI backend, offering features like hands-free operation and CarPlay integration for seamless interaction.

Highlights
  • Voice and text interaction with AI agents
  • Approve or deny agent commands
  • View agent reasoning and tool usage
  • Hands-free and CarPlay modes
  • Manage sessions, projects, and jobs
  • Supports OpenAI-compatible models
  • Rich media replies including images and diagrams
Features
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Redde is a complete iPhone and iPad client for Hermes, the open-source AI agent. Talk to it or type, watch it think and use tools, approve what it wants to run, and manage everything it does: sessions, projects, profiles, scheduled jobs, and the Kanban board. It also talks straight to any OpenAI-compatible model server when you just want a fast answer. You bring the backend. Redde has no account, no analytics, and no cloud of its own; every request goes only to the server you configured. TALK, DON'T TYPE • Tap the mic, ask, hear the answer. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone; the reply is spoken back with the built-in voice or your own Kokoro server. • Hands-free mode keeps the conversation going until you say "that's all". • Interrupt mid-answer: tap the mic to cut in, or type to steer the reply. • In CarPlay, ask through the car's mic and hear the answer through its speakers. • "Hey Siri, ask Redde…" works from the Lock Screen and AirPods. A Control Center button and Lock Screen widget open Redde listening. • On iOS 27, Siri can message your agent in your own words and read the reply back (opt-in). • A voice orb that moves with your voice and Redde's. Pause, replay, or have any reply read aloud. • "Ask Redde a Question" in Shortcuts returns the answer as text for your automations. SPOKEN PREFIXES Start a voice or Siri message with a word of your choice and Redde does what the word says: drops a text prefix in front, switches the conversation to a model you chose, or both. Say "Opus, review this diff" and the conversation moves to Opus before the message goes. The switch sticks for the follow-ups. Set it up once in Settings → Voice: the word, the ways it tends to be misheard, the prefix, the model. Off until you add a rule, spoken messages only, and anything you type stays exactly as typed. SEE THE AGENT WORK • Watch reasoning as it streams, with tool calls as they happen and a Live Activity for progress. • Approve or deny a risky command, answer the agent's questions, a sudo prompt or a missing secret, all from a notification. • Subagents get their own rows; tap one to follow its transcript, steer it, or stop it. A FULL CLIENT, NOT JUST A MIC • Every conversation lives in your gateway's session ledger: start on the phone, continue on the desktop, Telegram or the CLI. Search, pin, rename, fork, archive. • Sessions grouped by project. Scheduled jobs with delivery targets and blueprints. The Kanban board, live. • Rich replies: Markdown, highlighted code, tables, task lists, images, zoomable Mermaid diagrams, and math. • Pictures and files from the agent arrive ready to view: snapshots, charts, PDFs. • Regenerate, edit and resend, or search a long chat. • Attach photos and files; export chats as Markdown. • Share to Redde from any app: text, links, photos or files land in the composer. • Widgets show the last answer or start listening; the Action Button can open Redde listening. • Switch models mid-conversation from the chat header or with /model. • Skills and tool sets, on or off. Edit the agent's memory and context files in place, and create skills or let Redde draft one. YOUR BACKEND, YOUR RULES • Connect to Hermes through the Hermes Dashboard or the Hermes API, on your LAN, over a tailnet, or behind Cloudflare Access. • Or go straight to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint: llama.cpp, llama-swap, vLLM, Ollama on your hardware, or a hosted provider with your key. • Credentials stay in the Keychain. Speech recognition runs on the phone. • Face ID lock, seven themes with your own colors, app icons and voice orbs, iPad split view, keyboard shortcuts. • No account, no analytics, no tracking. The privacy label says "Data Not Collected" because that is what happens. REQUIRES A Hermes agent (github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Redde includes no model or hosted service. Hermes is an open-source project by Nous Research; Redde is an independent client, not affiliated with Nous Research.

Screenshots

pclip4 screens
Hermes Redde4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hermes Redde at 8 against pclip's 1. pclip's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for pclip against 5.0 for Hermes Redde. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Redde has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
pclip versus Hermes Redde: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterpclipHermes Redde
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB28 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTecachapa INCGoosehouse LLC

Customer experience

pclip

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hermes Redde

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

pclip

No in-app purchases

None

Hermes Redde

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is pclip free?
pclip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hermes Redde free?
Hermes Redde is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, pclip or Hermes Redde?
pclip and Hermes Redde are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do pclip or Hermes Redde have ads?
Neither pclip nor Hermes Redde shows ads.

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