Hermex vs Paneshell

Hermex is a native iPhone and iPad client for your self-hosted Hermes agent. It connects directly to your Hermes host, including a Hermes Webapp. 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. Make Hermex yours with themes, an accent color, fonts, and text size. 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.

Paneshell is an SSH terminal (SSH client) for iPhone and iPad. Connect to your Mac or Linux server over SSH and work inside tmux sessions. It is designed for driving terminal-based AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex while you're away from your desk. You can also see and control your Mac's screen: a remote desktop over VNC Screen Sharing. ■ Built around tmux ・Automatically attaches to your chosen tmux session when you connect, creating it and running a startup command if needed ・Pick a session from the home screen, and end sessions you no longer need with a long press ・Switch windows with tabs, and split panes or change layouts from the menu ・Resize split panes with arrows while looking at a layout diagram (with 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3 buttons) ・Scroll back through tmux history with a swipe or page buttons, then tap or type to return ・Reconnects automatically when you return to the app ・Reads your prefix key (such as Ctrl-A) from the server's settings ■ Made for AI agents ・Extra key bar with esc, tab, ctrl, shift, alt, arrow keys, Enter, and delete. Reorder keys and choose which side the arrows go on ・An fn key for F1–F12, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, and more ・Save prompts and commands as snippets and send them with one tap, or review and edit them in an input field before sending ・Sends long text with bracketed paste, so it arrives intact ・ctrl → Enter sends a waiting message in Claude Code right away ("send now") ・Send photos and screenshots to the server to show them to your AI agent ・Send files from Files to the server and insert their paths into the terminal (up to 50 MB) ・Open images made by AI agents straight from the paths shown on screen ・See usage percentages and reset times for Claude Code and Codex used in this session ■ Control your Mac's screen (remote desktop over VNC; Pro, 3 free trial uses) ・See and control your Mac's screen through its built-in Screen Sharing over an SSH tunnel (no relay servers) ・Tap to click, pinch to zoom, scroll with two fingers, or switch to Trackpad mode ・Type in English or Japanese, and favor image quality or speed ・Works with iPad trackpads and hardware keyboards ・Needs Screen Sharing and a VNC password on your Mac ■ Text editing that feels like iPhone ・Tap in the input line to move the cursor, or long press to place it with a magnifier and paste ・Long press or double-tap to select text, adjust it with the handles, and copy ・The keyboard appears only when you want it ■ Authentication ・Public key authentication (ED25519 / ECDSA P-256, Secure Enclave support, key import) ・Password authentication (choose whether to save it) ・Tailscale SSH (including browser check-in) ・Private keys and passwords are stored in the Keychain and can be protected with Face ID. You can also lock the whole app with Face ID ■ Easy to read ・Full support for Japanese text ・Showing the keyboard doesn't change the terminal size, so tmux and apps don't break ・Automatically fixes text colors too close to the background ・Pinch with two fingers to change the font size ・Choose themes (Dark, Light, Solarized, Hacker, plus the retro Classic, Classic Color and Classic Dark with Pro), cursor shape, and layout in Settings ・Works on the larger iPad screen and in landscape ・Japanese and English (switch in Settings) ■ Pricing ・Free: one host, plus 3 trial uses each of image sending and Mac screen control. Every other feature is included ・Paneshell Pro (one-time in-app purchase): add as many hosts as you like, control your Mac's screen and send images as often as you like (the free version includes 3 trial uses of each), and use the Classic themes. No subscription ■ Privacy Your hosts, keys, and terminal contents are never sent to the developer or any third party. * Paneshell is an SSH client. You need an SSH server to connect to (such as Remote Login on a Mac, or a Linux server). * Claude Code, Codex, and Tailscale are products of their respective companies and are not affiliated with this app.