Comparison

Hermex vs Mark

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Hermex is a native iPhone and iPad client for your self-hosted Hermes agent. Connect to a reachable Hermes Web UI server, or enable the optional Bot Mode beta to connect directly to a Hermes agent host. 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. Manage Kanban boards and cards, browse Tasks, Skills, Memory, and Usage, and choose models, profiles, and reasoning settings. Bot Mode adds a Bots inbox, Desktop sections, reactions, quick replies, approvals, questions, and group rooms. 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

Mark

Features
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Make feedback visible. Highlight the problem, draw the change, add a note, and share an annotated capture. Mark brings desktop annotation to Mac and webpage annotation to Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. DESKTOP TOOLS ON MAC Keep a compact floating palette beside your work. Mark up app interfaces, designs, documents, and webpages on your screen. Use colored highlights, shapes, freehand drawing, and notes. Inspect small details with the desktop magnifier, then capture your annotated screen. Choose a palette layout and appearance that fit your workspace. Desktop annotation and magnification are Mac features. SAFARI EXTENSION INCLUDED Annotate webpages directly in Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Highlight text and regions, draw squares and circles, sketch arrows and underlines, and add sticky notes beside the content you are reviewing. CAPTURE, ORGANIZE, SHARE Keep saved images in Library, organize them into folders, open previews, and share through the system share sheet. On iPhone and iPad, new Safari captures are also available in the native Mark Library. Saved captures remain accessible after tool access ends. VISUAL CONTEXT FOR YOUR WORKFLOW Use annotated screenshots for design reviews, bug reports, writing feedback, and visual context in an AI-assisted workflow. Share an image with the app or person you choose. Mark does not include an integrated chatbot or generative service, and the personal release does not include live team collaboration. TRY MARK FREE FOR 30 DAYS Try the annotation tools and make new captures during a separate 30-day evaluation on your device. No subscription signup is required to start the evaluation, and it does not charge you automatically. MONTHLY OR YEARLY ACCESS After the evaluation, a paid subscription is required to continue using annotation tools and creating new captures. Mark Monthly is $2.99 per month and Mark Yearly is $19.99 per year in the United States. Yearly saves about 44% compared with twelve monthly payments. Both plans include the same personal tools: desktop annotation on Mac and the Safari extensions on supported Apple devices using the same Apple Account. Features vary by platform. Local prices are shown before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm a purchase. Subscriptions renew monthly or yearly at the selected price unless canceled at least 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel in Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases is available in Mark. Privacy Policy: https://mark-website-y5hm.onrender.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hermex4 screens
Mark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Hermex at #27 against Mark's unranked. Mark's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Hermex versus Mark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHermexMark
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (135 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings135 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#27 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUzair AnsarSpartadata

In-app purchases

None

Hermex

No in-app purchases

None

Mark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hermex free?
Hermex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mark free?
Mark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hermex or Mark have ads?
Neither Hermex nor Mark shows ads.

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