Hermex vs ompanion

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.

ompanion is a client for omp, the open-source oh-my-pi coding agent. omp normally runs in a terminal on your own machine; ompanion drives it over SSH from your iPhone or iPad, with no daemon installed on that machine. On iPhone and iPad ompanion is SSH-only: it connects to a computer you own and control. What you need - A machine you can reach over SSH: macOS, Linux or Windows. - omp 18.3.1 or newer on it. If omp is missing, ompanion installs it on that machine, or shows you the commands to run yourself. - AI model access from your own provider accounts, configured in omp on that machine. ompanion ships no servers, no accounts, no model of its own. Chat - Streaming transcript with markdown, LaTeX math, highlighted code, collapsible thinking and images - Finished turns fold their thinking, tool calls and interim messages under a one-line summary - Steer the running turn or queue a follow-up, and edit or remove queued messages - Slash commands from the session's own command list, model and thinking-level pickers, and a context and cost meter - Pause and resume every agent of a session; Stop aborts the run and restores queued messages - Attach files by picking them, or paste images; images go to the model, files reach omp as mentions it reads on the machine - Copy messages and code, and branch from any of your messages Tools and approvals - Tool cards for shell, read, edit and write with word-level diffs, eval, todo, task, web search and fetch - Tool approvals answered inline; the ask tool as a form with several questions, previews and your own answers - Extension dialogs, status lines and toasts; files named in tool cards open in the Files panel Sessions - Every session on a machine, grouped by project and across omp profiles, marked working, waiting for input or unread - Search sessions across your machines by title or project path - Resume any session on the machine, including ones from omp's terminal UI (read-only while that omp still has it open) - Session tree with search, filters, labels, branching and an optional model-written summary - Several of your devices on one live session: each sees what the others send, and the first answer settles the dialog everywhere Machines - Any SSH host, including hosts behind a chain of jump hosts - No daemon: it runs stock omp, and uploads a small companion extension for what omp's RPC lacks - Sessions run detached on the machine, so a dropped connection or a locked phone does not stop the turn - Key, password and keyboard-interactive SSH authentication, with host-key checks on every hop - Each machine is probed, and omp is installed on it with a checksum check - Generate Ed25519 keys or import your own; private keys stay in the platform's secure storage Files, terminal and configuration - Files: browse, create, rename and delete; an editor with find and replace; git status and diffs - Terminal tabs on the machine, over SSH - Agent Hub: subagent roster with progress, tokens and cost, each agent's transcript, steer, kill, revive - Todos by phase, and compactions shown with their summary and file lists - Settings from omp's own schema, model roles, providers, MCP servers, plugins, skills, and stats - Usage: subscription limits from every online machine, with reset times and account priority - Monochrome, flat design with an OLED-black dark theme and a light theme; on an iPad in landscape, machines, chat and tools sit side by side Privacy - No accounts, no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, no tracking - Your data stays on your device or goes over SSH to your own machines; the app reaches GitHub only to download omp for a machine, and a web image in a reply only when you tap it - Prompts go to omp on your machine, which calls the providers you configured there, under their policies - Private keys and passwords are kept in the platform's secure storage ompanion is open source (GPLv3): github.com/edde746/ompanion