Hermex vs Limits
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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 client for your self-hosted Hermes Agent server. It is designed for people who already run a reachable Hermes Web UI server and want a focused mobile way to keep up with agent work from iPhone. Connect to your own server, open existing sessions, start new conversations, and follow streamed responses as they arrive. Manage Kanban boards and cards, review status-focused work, update workflows, add comments, inspect history, and preview or launch Dispatcher runs. The app also supports model/profile/reasoning controls, file and photo attachments, workspace file browsing, tasks, skills, memory, usage details, and a share extension for staging content from other iOS apps. Agent execution happens on the configured Hermes server, not on the iPhone. Prompts, attachments, shared content, workspace requests, board and card actions, and session actions are sent only to the server URL you enter. Recent sessions and messages may be cached locally for offline read-only viewing, and the cache can be cleared from Settings. Hermex does not provide a hosted Hermes backend, in-app account creation, subscriptions, or in-app purchases. You need your own reachable Hermes Web UI server to use the app. Not affiliated with Nous Research.
Limits
Monitor your AI coding rate limits across multiple providers in one convenient dashboard. View session usage, weekly quotas, and reset timers with customizable widgets for at-a-glance updates. This app prioritizes privacy with on-device token storage and no tracking.
- AI rate limit monitoring
- Session usage tracking
- Weekly quota display
- Reset countdown timers
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- On-device token storage
- Supports Codex, Claude, Cursor
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Limits shows your AI coding rate limits at a glance. See session usage, weekly quotas, and reset timers for the providers you connect, all in one place. Connect with secure sign in. Limits never sends your tokens to a server. Your tokens stay on your device in the Keychain, and your usage is cached on device so the widgets can read it. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets keep your limits visible without opening the app. Live countdowns keep ticking between refreshes, so you always know how much you have left and when it resets. Supported providers: - Codex (ChatGPT) - Claude Code - Cursor - Grok - Antigravity Why you will like it: - One dashboard for every limit you care about - Ring and bar gauges that stay readable at a glance - Reset countdowns on your Home Screen and Lock Screen - Private by design, with no account required for Limits itself - No ads, no tracking, and no analytics Limits is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic, OpenAI, Anysphere, Google, xAI, or any other provider. Provider names are used only to identify the services you choose to connect. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/stdeula/ Questions or feedback: hi@pranavkarthik.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hermex at none against Limits's 3. Hermex also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 70%) and ratings volume (84 vs 22). Limits's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, ads and chart position 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. Limits sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Hermex asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Hermex against 4.5 for Limits. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 84 and 22 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Hermex's written reviews are positive against 70% of Limits's.
Hermex ships an update fortnightly, Limits every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hermex | Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (84 ratings) — better | 4.5 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.4% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 84 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #23 — better | #42 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uzair Ansar | Pranav Karthik Mruthyunjayan |
Customer experience
Hermex
Limits
In-app purchases
Hermex
No in-app purchases
Limits
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$6.991 Year
- Limits Pro$14.99









