Omnigent vs Hermes Conduit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Omnigent
This app allows you to remotely manage and monitor your AI agents running on an open-source workspace. Continue your technical workflows, review agent outputs, and switch between sessions seamlessly from your mobile device.
- Remote AI agent supervision
- Cross-device session synchronization
- Monitor agent chats and terminals
- Work with custom YAML agents
- Connect to self-hosted or cloud deployments
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Omnigent is the mobile companion for your Omnigent server: an open-source workspace for supervising AI agents across coding, research, automation, and other technical workflows. Connect to a server you run, sign in, and continue the same sessions you use from desktop or browser. Follow agent work from your iPhone or iPad, send messages, review outputs, and switch between sessions without losing context. Use Omnigent to: - Keep agent chats, sub-agents, terminals, and files in sync across devices - Supervise multiple agents from one interface - Work with custom YAML agents and shared team sessions - Reach self-hosted or cloud-hosted Omnigent deployments This app is a native iOS shell for the Omnigent web UI. You need access to an Omnigent server to use it. For local or private deployments, configure your server URL on the first screen and connect securely.
Hermes Conduit
This mobile client allows you to connect to a Hermes agent gateway from your iPhone. It provides a touch-first interface for conversations, monitoring, and controlling agent workflows away from your desktop. Supports rich text, file attachments, and detailed session management.
- Continue desktop sessions
- Stream responses in real-time
- Rich text and code rendering
- File and image attachments
- Session control and monitoring
- Profile and skill management
- Gateway log monitoring
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Hermes Conduit is an independent client for your own Hermes agent, on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Your sessions, profiles, bots and tools are the same ones you use on desktop, in a touch-first app built for chatting, talking, and keeping an eye on your agent while you're away from your desk. TALK TO HERMES • Real-time voice calls with Gemini Live, GPT-Live and Grok Live, or Local Live on your own speech server: natural conversation with echo cancellation and interruption, not speak, wait, reply • Start, check and cancel Hermes jobs by voice, with results folded back into the call • Calls stay with the chat you started them from, keep going with the screen locked, and shrink to a bar while you read • Hermes can call you: ask it to ring when a job is done and answer like a normal phone call, even from your Watch • Talk from Apple Watch on its own, from CarPlay, from Siri, or with a wake phrase • Classic voice and dictation with spoken Stop and End, plus Read Aloud for any reply 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 task lists • Map, place, travel and info cards that Hermes draws right in the chat • Follow thinking, tool calls and each turn's steps, or keep them folded away • Attach photos, camera shots and any file; quote text, react to messages • Browse every file and artifact Hermes made, across all chats or in one • Saved chats open instantly and you can type while Conduit reconnects TASKS, BOTS AND GROUPS • Tasks board: follow Hermes' Kanban tasks and add new ones • Open your Hermes bots and their Bot Chats; add them to group chats and mention anyone with @ • Review, run and manage scheduled jobs YOUR PHONE, IF YOU ALLOW IT Every one is off until you turn it on, and goes only to your own Hermes host: • Location and place rules, travel times and directions • Calendar and reminders, with each change asked first • Apple Health data • Alarms and timers, and contacts you pick • Ask Hermes about what's on your screen, or send anything to it from Shortcuts STAY IN CONTROL • Approve tools and answer questions straight from a notification, end-to-end encrypted between your host and your phone • Live Activities show a running reply on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Home Screen widgets to start a chat or talk in one tap • Switch providers, models and reasoning effort mid-conversation; watch context use; steer or stop a turn • Branch, pin, archive and delete sessions; switch profiles and Hermes servers • Turn skills, tools, connectors and plugins on or off, and read gateway logs • 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, no ads, no analytics. 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Omnigent at 4.8 against Hermes Conduit's 4.6. Hermes Conduit's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks) and chart position (#31 vs #200). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Omnigent holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 35 respectively.
Omnigent ships an update every 2 weeks, Hermes Conduit weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Omnigent | Hermes Conduit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (10 ratings) — better | 4.6 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #200 | #31 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Databricks Inc. | Long Cheung Ho |
Customer experience
Omnigent
Hermes Conduit
In-app purchases
Omnigent
No in-app purchases
Hermes Conduit
No in-app purchases









