Comparison

PVE Admin vs Hermes Conduit

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

Head to head
About

PVE Admin

Manage your Proxmox VE cluster from your iPhone or iPad. Monitor nodes, VMs, and containers, access their consoles, and manage backups and storage. Receive push notifications for cluster events.

Highlights
  • Cluster dashboard
  • VM/container management
  • Integrated console
  • Snapshot and backup management
  • Storage browsing
  • Task tracking
  • Push notifications
Features
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PVE Admin puts your Proxmox VE cluster in your pocket. Monitor and manage your nodes, virtual machines, and containers from iPhone and iPad — wherever you are. FEATURES • Dashboard — cluster health at a glance: nodes online, running guests, CPU and memory load. • Virtual machines & containers — start, stop, reboot, shut down, create, clone, migrate, and delete, with live CPU, memory, disk, and network charts. • In-app console — a real terminal to containers and nodes, a graphical console for VMs, no SSH client needed. • Snapshots & backups — create and roll back snapshots, run and schedule backups, and restore. • Live Activities — backup, restore, clone, migrate, and downloads with progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. • Widget — nodes, running guests, and load on the Home Screen without opening the app. • Network configuration — edit bridges, VLAN tags, IP, gateway, and firewall per interface. • Node maintenance — check and install available package updates, services, disks with SMART data, and ZFS pools. • System log — follow a node's journal live. • Storage — browse storages, ISOs, templates, disks, and backups; download and clean up. • Tasks — follow cluster tasks with live, streaming logs. • Pending-reboot indicator — see exactly which config changes are waiting for a restart. • Access management — users, groups, roles, permissions, API tokens, realms, and two-factor. • Firewall, resource pools, high availability, and replication. • Push notifications — cluster events by severity, including finished backups and available updates. SECURITY & PRIVACY • Certificate pinning, API-token or ticket login, and TOTP two-factor authentication. • Face ID / Touch ID app lock. • Anonymous, opt-out usage analytics — no account, no tracking. PVE Admin is not affiliated with Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH.

About

Hermes Conduit

This mobile client provides access to your personal AI agent's capabilities, including bot chats, voice calls, and task management. Interact with your bots, monitor their progress, and manage your projects from your phone or tablet.

Highlights
  • Bot chat with group messaging
  • Real-time voice calls with AI models
  • Task management and Kanban boards
  • Desktop session mirroring
  • File and artifact browsing
  • Customizable bot skills and tools
  • Live Activities and widgets
Features
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Hermes Conduit is an independent client for your own Hermes agent, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Your sessions, profiles, bots and tools are the same ones you use on desktop, in an app built for chatting, talking and checking in while you're away from your desk. YOUR BOTS, ONE TAP AWAY • Bots Home shows your bots as portraits: tap one for its Bot Chat, drag them into your order, or drop one on another to start a group chat • Group chats with @mentions, a lead bot or everyone answering, and a status for each bot under the title • Bots hand bigger jobs to workstreams and report back when they finish or need you • Set each bot's model, skills and tools, and give it a picture from Image Playground, a GIF or a still brought to life • Bot Screen: watch a bot's desktop on a Linux host and take over for a sign-in TALK TO HERMES • Real-time voice calls with Gemini Live, Qwen Live, GPT-Live and Grok Live, or Local Live on your own speech server, in your language • Start, check and cancel Hermes jobs by voice • Calls keep going with the screen locked and are saved as chats • Hermes can call you when a job is done or it needs your answer; pick up like a normal call, even on your Watch • Talk from Apple Watch on its own, from CarPlay, from Siri, or with a wake phrase CHAT WITHOUT LOSING CONTEXT • Pick up desktop sessions and project chats where you left them, with replies streaming in live • Markdown, highlighted code, math, Mermaid diagrams and tables • Cards Hermes draws in the chat: maps, places, travel, diffs of its changes, and boards with sortable tables, plans and checklists • Follow thinking, tool calls and steps, or fold them away • Attach photos and any file, or drag them in; quote, edit and resend messages • Browse every file and artifact Hermes made, and your project folders • On iPad and Mac, resize the chat list and chat columns; text grows with the window TASKS AND PULSE • Tasks board: follow Hermes' Kanban tasks and add new ones • Review, run and edit scheduled jobs • Pulse (beta): Hermes brings things up on its own, from a morning brief to follow-ups on your plans YOUR PHONE, IF YOU ALLOW IT Every one is off until you turn it on, and goes only to your own Hermes host: • Location, travel times and directions • Calendar and reminders, with each change asked first • Apple Health data, Focus, alarms, timers and contacts you pick • Ask Hermes about your screen, or send it anything from Shortcuts or the share sheet STAY IN CONTROL • Approve tools from a notification, end-to-end encrypted, or from Needs you, which gathers every approval waiting • Live Activities, and Home Screen widgets to start a chat or talk in one tap • Connect model providers from the app, with one API key for every profile • Switch models and reasoning effort mid-conversation; steer, queue or stop a turn • Turn skills, tools, connectors and plugins on or off; switch profiles and Hermes servers • Face ID or Touch ID lock, credentials kept in the Keychain EASY TO SET UP Sign in with your dashboard address, a QR code or a setup link from your agent. Install the free Hermes Conduit Notifier plugin on your host for notifications, voice calls, cards and phone features. BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTED HERMES Conduit connects to the Hermes dashboard you run, and in live voice calls to the voice provider you choose. It is not a hosted AI service, and a working Hermes installation is required. Free, with no ads, no analytics and no tracking. If Conduit crashes or freezes, it asks once whether to send that report (call stacks, app and iOS version, device model) to its developer, and sends nothing unless you tap Send. Available in English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Hermes Conduit is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nous Research.

Screenshots

PVE Admin4 screens
Hermes Conduit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hermes Conduit at 53 against PVE Admin's 1. Hermes Conduit also leads on chart position (#56 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). PVE Admin's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PVE Admin holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Conduit has 53 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PVE Admin ships an update fortnightly, Hermes Conduit weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
PVE Admin versus Hermes Conduit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPVE AdminHermes Conduit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.7 (53 ratings)
Positive reviews—84.8% of reviews
Number of ratings153 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank—#56 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB101 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developerapply IT UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)Long Cheung Ho

Customer experience

PVE Admin

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hermes Conduit

All ratings53 ratings
Positive92.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.7%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive84.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative10.9%

In-app purchases

None

PVE Admin

No in-app purchases

None

Hermes Conduit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PVE Admin free?
PVE Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hermes Conduit free?
Hermes Conduit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PVE Admin or Hermes Conduit?
PVE Admin is rated higher. PVE Admin averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Hermes Conduit averages 4.7 from 53 ratings.
Do PVE Admin or Hermes Conduit have ads?
Neither PVE Admin nor Hermes Conduit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PVE Admin or Hermes Conduit?
PVE Admin ships an update fortnightly, and Hermes Conduit weekly. Most recently, PVE Admin was updated on November 10, 2026 and Hermes Conduit on November 12, 2026.

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