A.N.T vs Hermes Redde
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A.N.T
This AI-powered note-taking tool automatically organizes your thoughts, ideas, and meeting recordings into structured folders. It transcribes audio, generates titles, and allows for easy searching and sharing of your notes.
- AI-powered note organization
- Voice and text note capture
- Meeting transcription and summarization
- Automatic folder creation
- Searchable notes and folder paths
- Integration with other productivity apps
- Reminders and living lists
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A.N.T - Automatic Note Taker is an AI Note App and second brain. Most note apps stop after transcription, and just summarize. A.N.T handles what happens next. Speak, type, record a meeting, add a photo, or upload a file. A.N.T cleans and files it so you can find it later. - Voice Transcription. - Offline recording. - Create reminders and notifications. - No extra device needed - Meetings - Document to note - Whiteboard to note Plus Record meeting and stay focused on the people in front of you. Organize the conversation into clear sections, key points, decisions, action items, follow-ups. TRY A.N.T AI FOR TWO WEEKS The first 14 days are on us, with no credit card required. Use the full app, see whether it helps, and only subscribe if you decide it is worth keeping. Continued use after the trial requires a paid subscription. Current pricing and meeting limits are shown before purchase and on our pricing page. Terms of Use: https://automaticnotetaker.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://automaticnotetaker.com/privacy
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hermes Redde at none against A.N.T's 10. Hermes Redde also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days). A.N.T's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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. A.N.T sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Hermes Redde asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for A.N.T against 5.0 for Hermes Redde. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
A.N.T ships an update every 9 days, Hermes Redde every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A.N.T | Hermes Redde |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Going Big LLC | Goosehouse LLC |
Customer experience
A.N.T
Hermes Redde
In-app purchases
A.N.T
- Not-So-Busy Monthly$2.991 Month
- Swistly$7.991 Month
- Busy Person Monthly$7.991 Month
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- Swistly Max$17.991 Month
- Super Busy Person Monthly$19.991 Month
- Not-So-Busy Annual$29.991 Year
- Swistly$79.991 Year
- Busy Person Annual$79.991 Year
- Swistly Max$179.991 Year
- Super Busy Person Annual$199.991 Year
Hermes Redde
No in-app purchases









