Comparison

Hermes Decode vs Archetype Matrix

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hermes Decode

Features
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Hermes is a place to meet yourself. It holds four connected spaces — Dreams, Synchronicities, Psyche, and Astrology — and the magic is in how they speak to each other. A dream rhymes with a chance encounter. A pattern in your chart surfaces in a quiet inner dialogue. Nothing stands alone here; every entry becomes a thread in the same unfolding story. DREAMS Capture a dream the moment you wake — by voice or by hand — and watch its images, symbols, and feeling come into focus. Return to it later and follow the threads deeper. SYNCHRONICITIES Log the meaningful coincidences most people let slip past. Hermes helps you read them — the recurring number, the song, the name that keeps arriving — and notices when they echo your dreams. PSYCHE Explore your inner world through guided reflection, word association, archetypal figures, and quiet conversation. A space to sit with what's stirring beneath the surface. ASTROLOGY Your full natal chart and daily transits, read for meaning rather than prediction. See how the sky you were born under threads through your dreams, your patterns, and your reflections. WOVEN TOGETHER The more you record, the more Hermes connects — surfacing the quiet motifs that run through everything you bring to it. AN INNER CIRCLE Share a dream or a synchronicity with someone you trust, exchange interpretations, and explore how your charts meet. MEMBERSHIP Hermes is free to begin. Adept and Magus unlock deeper readings, longer conversations, and the full inner toolkit. • Adept — $7.99/month or $59.99/year • Magus — $19.99/month or $159.99/year, with a 7-day free trial Subscriptions are auto-renewable. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period's end. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Service: https://www.hermesdecode.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.hermesdecode.com/privacy Hermes is a tool for reflection and self-exploration; it does not provide medical, psychological, or therapeutic advice.

About

Archetype Matrix

Log your daily mood and identify archetypes to see how they resonate with others globally. Explore collective trends, send anonymous signals of connection, and track your personal patterns over time. This app offers a unique way to notice and reflect on your inner world.

Highlights
  • Daily mood and archetype logging
  • Anonymous global resonance tracking
  • Collective archetype leaderboards
  • Live feed of global entries
  • Anonymous 'You Are Not Alone' signals
  • Personal pattern tracking
  • Jungian archetype insights
Features
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Carl Jung believed that beneath each personal mind there is a layer we all share, the collective unconscious, and that it speaks through archetypes. The Shadow, the Mother, the Trickster, the old symbols that keep returning in myths and dreams in every culture. Archetype Matrix is mapping that layer. People around the world write down the archetypes they feel moving through them, and every entry becomes a point on a map of the collective unconscious that changes as they write. Taking part is simple. A few times a day you note how you feel and write up to four archetypes that seem to be around you at that moment. The Shadow, a snake, a door, an old woman, something you saw in a dream last night, whatever comes to you. Each one is three words at most, in your own language and your own wording. There is no list to pick from. Your entry stays anonymous. The Collective Network works like a news portal of the unconscious. The Live Feed shows what people are logging right now, you can see which archetypes are rising in each country, and follow how they shift by week, month, season and moon phase. When an archetype suddenly breaks out somewhere, appearing far more often than usual, the app catches it and sends you the news. In the Personal Network you follow your own trail: every archetype and mood you have logged, the patterns they form over time, and private notes you can attach to any entry. In the Live Feed you can tap the archetypes in other people's entries that feel close to you, and the app shows which countries, age groups and genders you seem to share the most with. When someone logs the same archetype around the same time as you, you can send each other an anonymous signal. This is not astrology and it doesn't diagnose anything. It counts what people write and shows you the result. What it means is up to you. If you are drawn to depth psychology, shadow work, mythology, symbols or dreams, this was made with you in mind. You can start without an account. You only need to sign in if you want your entries to follow you to another device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://archetypematrix.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Hermes Decode4 screens
Archetype Matrix4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hermes Decode and Archetype Matrix are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Hermes Decode sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Archetype Matrix sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hermes Decode ships an update every 11 days, Archetype Matrix every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Hermes Decode versus Archetype Matrix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHermes DecodeArchetype Matrix
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiego Petkoff AzcunaNAZAN ERDOGAN

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Hermes Decode

Subscriptions4
  • Adept$6.991 Month
  • Magus7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Adept (Annual)$49.991 Year
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  • Magus (Annual)7 Days trial$149.991 Year
1 purchases

Archetype Matrix

Subscriptions1
  • Archetype Matrix PRO$2.991 Month

Questions

Is Hermes Decode free?
Hermes Decode is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Archetype Matrix free?
Archetype Matrix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hermes Decode or Archetype Matrix have ads?
Neither Hermes Decode nor Archetype Matrix shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hermes Decode or Archetype Matrix?
Hermes Decode ships an update every 11 days, and Archetype Matrix every 6 days. Most recently, Hermes Decode was updated on October 6, 2026 and Archetype Matrix on October 24, 2026.

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