Hermex vs Headroom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hermex
This client app connects to your self-hosted AI agent, allowing you to manage conversations, review file edits, and interact with bots and sessions. It offers customization options and live activity integration for seamless workflow management.
- Connects to self-hosted AI agents
- Manage conversations and streamed responses
- Review file edits as diffs
- Switch between Bots and Sessions
- Customize themes, colors, and fonts
- Live Activities for Lock Screen visibility
- Share extension for content staging
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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, 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.
Headroom
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See how much AI you have left and when your limits reset. Headroom brings usage from multiple services and accounts together, so you spend less time checking separate dashboards. Your remaining limits at a glance Check usage and remaining percentages for each account, along with reset times for individual limits. Switch between a countdown and the clock time of the next reset. Multiple services and accounts Connect accounts for Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, OpenCode Go, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Grok/SuperGrok. Available limits and account details depend on the data provided by each service and subscription plan. On your Home Screen and wrist Keep frequently checked limits close with Home Screen widgets. On Apple Watch, view usage and reset times delivered from your iPhone. Watch face complications are also supported. Notifications when you need them Get alerts when newly checked usage crosses your selected threshold or reaches a limit, and enable reset reminders. Delivery depends on notification permission, your settings, and available usage updates. Made for iPhone and iPad Use Headroom on iPhone and iPad, with support for 21 languages including English and Korean. Data and refresh details Account credentials and fetched usage are stored locally on your device. The app communicates with the relevant services to sign in and retrieve usage. When an account is connected and Background refresh is enabled, Headroom sends your Apple Push Notification service (APNs) device token, push environment, and registration/update timestamps to its push server. Turning this setting off or removing all connected accounts deletes the device registration from that server. Account credentials and usage are not sent to that push server. Background refresh, widget updates, and Apple Watch delivery depend on the operating system, network connectivity, power conditions, and other system limits. Updates are not guaranteed to be real time or occur at a fixed interval. Force-quitting the iPhone app stops background refresh until you open it again. Headroom is not an official app of the supported services. Service names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. An account with the service you want to connect is required. Available information may change with provider policies.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: Hermex at #49 against Headroom's unranked. Headroom's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Hermex | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (222 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 222 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Best chart rank | #49 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Uzair Ansar | Donghyun Nam |
In-app purchases
Hermex
No in-app purchases
Headroom
No in-app purchases









