Comparison

Hermex vs Temp Number | Receive SMS

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

Head to head
About

Hermex

This client app connects to your self-hosted AI agent, allowing you to manage conversations, review edits, and interact with tools directly from your iPhone or iPad. It offers features like live activities for ongoing tasks and a share extension for easy content staging.

Highlights
  • Connect to self-hosted AI agents
  • Manage conversations and streamed responses
  • Review file edits as diffs
  • Send photos and files
  • Switch between Bots and Sessions
  • Live Activities on Lock Screen/Dynamic Island
  • Share extension for content staging
Features
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Hermex is a native iPhone and iPad client for your self-hosted Hermes agent. It connects directly to your Hermes host. Existing Hermes Web UI servers keep working as legacy. 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. Switch between Bots and Sessions, manage Kanban boards and Cards, browse Tasks, Skills, Memory, and Usage, and choose models, Profiles, and reasoning settings. Move to Hermes brings a Web UI server’s chats, drafts, and notifications over to your Hermes host. 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.

About

Temp Number | Receive SMS

Get a temporary phone number to receive verification codes without sharing your personal number. This app provides disposable numbers from various countries, displays incoming SMS codes instantly, and allows one-tap copying. It's ideal for trying new services or avoiding spam.

Highlights
  • Temporary phone numbers
  • Receive SMS verification codes
  • Numbers from multiple countries
  • Instant code display
  • One-tap code copying
  • Dark mode support
Features
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Need a phone number just to get a verification code? Use one of ours instead of giving out your own. Receive SMS lets you grab a temporary phone number, use it wherever a site or app asks you to verify by text, and read the code right here in a few seconds. No SIM card, no sign up, and we never ask for anything about you. It's handy when you want to try something without handing over your real number, or when you just want to keep the spam away from your actual phone. What you get: Temporary numbers from lots of different countries Codes show up in the app, usually within seconds We spot the verification code for you, so you can copy it with one tap The inbox updates on its own while you wait Save the numbers you like so they're easy to find later Works great in dark mode How it works: Pick a country and choose a number, use it where the code is asked for, then come back and the message is waiting. Tap the code to copy it and you're done. One thing to keep in mind: these numbers are public and shared, so anyone using the app can see the messages they get. Please don't use them for your bank, your email, or anything personal, and never send private info to them. The app only receives texts. It can't send messages or make calls.

Screenshots

Hermex4 screens
Temp Number | Receive SMS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hermex at 4.8 against Temp Number | Receive SMS's 3.0. Hermex also leads on ratings volume (197 vs 2). Temp Number | Receive SMS's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 84%) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Hermex holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermex has 197 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Hermex's written reviews are positive against 100% of Temp Number | Receive SMS's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Hermex versus Temp Number | Receive SMS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHermexTemp Number | Receive SMS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (197 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews84.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings197 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#28 — better#32
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUzair AnsarYarden Mitrani

Customer experience

Hermex

All ratings197 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive84.3%
Neutral6.9%
Negative8.8%

Temp Number | Receive SMS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Hermex

No in-app purchases

None

Temp Number | Receive SMS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hermex free?
Hermex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Temp Number | Receive SMS free?
Temp Number | Receive SMS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hermex or Temp Number | Receive SMS?
Hermex is rated higher. Hermex averages 4.8 out of 5 from 197 ratings, while Temp Number | Receive SMS averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Hermex or Temp Number | Receive SMS have ads?
Neither Hermex nor Temp Number | Receive SMS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hermex or Temp Number | Receive SMS?
Hermex ships an update every 2 weeks, and Temp Number | Receive SMS every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hermex was updated on October 31, 2026 and Temp Number | Receive SMS on October 31, 2026.
Which is more popular, Hermex or Temp Number | Receive SMS?
Hermex currently peaks at #28 in the App Store charts, and Temp Number | Receive SMS at #32. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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