Comparison

Hermex vs AnySSH

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

AnySSH

Features
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AnySSH is a free, open-source SSH client for iPhone and iPad, built for working on real remote machines. Connect to a host, open a real terminal, check git, browse files, and attach to tmux or herdr sessions from one native app. - Terminal: SwiftTerm engine, JetBrains Mono, touch gestures, hardware keyboard, accessory key bar, reconnect and session restore. - Git: status, commit history, and syntax-highlighted diffs, read straight from the host. - Files: a remote browser with viewers for source, JSON, Markdown, images, SVG, and video. - Sessions: tmux and herdr support, jump between sessions and panes, saved command snippets, job-finish notifications, and a lock-screen Live Activity. No backend, no account, no telemetry. Keys and passphrases live only in the iOS Keychain on your device. MIT-licensed and open source: www.getanyssh.com

Screenshots

Hermex4 screens
AnySSH4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Hermex at #25 against AnySSH's unranked. Hermex also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hermex ships an update every 2 weeks, AnySSH monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Hermex versus AnySSH: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHermexAnySSH
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (197 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings197 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#25 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUzair AnsarJUAN PATRICIO MARROQUIN GAVELAN

In-app purchases

None

Hermex

No in-app purchases

None

AnySSH

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hermex free?
Hermex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is AnySSH free?
AnySSH is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hermex or AnySSH have ads?
Neither Hermex nor AnySSH shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hermex or AnySSH?
Hermex ships an update every 2 weeks, and AnySSH monthly. Most recently, Hermex was updated on November 1, 2026 and AnySSH on October 31, 2026.

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