Synaplan AI Control vs Hermes Redde
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Synaplan AI Control
This AI assistant connects to multiple leading AI models and your personal knowledge base. Upload documents to chat with them, get answers grounded in your data, and generate images. Choose between cloud or self-hosted servers for privacy.
- Connect to multiple AI models
- Chat with uploaded documents (RAG)
- Voice input
- Image generation
- Organize with knowledge folders
- Private data handling
- Self-hosted server option
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Synaplan is your private AI assistant that talks to leading AI models AND your own knowledge. Ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in your own documents, not just the model's training data. Upload files into knowledge folders and chat with them — reports, manuals, notes, research — and get answers with the sources they came from. WHY SYNAPLAN • One assistant, many models — pick the AI that fits the task. • Chat with your documents (RAG): upload files and ask across them. • Voice input: dictate instead of typing. • Image generation: create visuals right in the chat. • Tools & knowledge folders to organize how you work. • Private by design: your data flows through the server you choose. BUILT FOR YOU • Connect to Synaplan.com or to your own self-hosted Synaplan server — you decide where your data lives. • Clean, fast, native experience: dark mode, offline-aware, share and save results. • Available in English, German, Spanish, and Turkish. SUBSCRIPTIONS Free to start. Optional subscriptions unlock higher usage and advanced features, billed through your App Store account. Manage or cancel anytime in your account settings. Synaplan is flexible and open: the platform is brandable and can be self-hosted, so the same app works for Synaplan.com and for your own AI platform. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Synaplan Pro, Team and Business are auto-renewing monthly subscriptions. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Current prices are shown in the app before you confirm. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.synaplan.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.synaplan.com/privacy-policy
Hermes Redde
This app provides a comprehensive interface for an open-source AI agent, allowing users to interact via voice or text. It supports creating and managing custom AI bots with unique personalities and tools, and offers integration with various Apple devices and hands-free operation.
- Voice and text interaction with AI agent
- Create and customize AI bots
- Group chats with multiple bots
- CarPlay and Apple Watch support
- Approve agent actions
- Integrates with iPhone tools
- Rich reply formats
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Redde is a complete iPhone and iPad client for Hermes, the open-source AI agent, with CarPlay and an Apple Watch app. Talk or type, watch it think and use tools, approve what it runs, and give it a crew: bots with faces and voices of their own, alone or in group chats. You bring the backend. Redde has no account and no analytics, and your conversations go only to your server, and to a voice service if you pick one. BOTS • Each Hermes profile is a bot with a face, a voice and a chat of its own. Start one from a template (Researcher, Writer, Coder, Home, Planner) and make its job, personality, model, face and tools your own. • Type @ to hand work to another bot. Put two to six in a group chat and they answer in turn; talk to the room and each answers in its own voice. • Give a bot a schedule and its answer arrives in its chat, with a notification, even with Redde closed. Mute any chat. • Ask a bot from Siri, CarPlay, the Apple Watch or a spoken word. TALK, DON'T TYPE • Tap the mic or say "Hey" and your agent's name, ask, hear the answer, or show it what the camera sees. Speech is recognized on your iPhone; the reply is spoken by the built-in voice, Kokoro, ElevenLabs or your Hermes. • Or talk live, interrupting any time, with GPT-Live, Gemini Live, Grok Voice or ElevenLabs on your own key. • Hands-free keeps the conversation going until you say "that's all". Talk over an answer or type to steer it. • In CarPlay, ask in a new chat, a recent one or a bot's. On Apple Watch, raise your wrist and ask. • "Hey Siri, ask Redde…" works from the Lock Screen and AirPods, and Siri takes notes for your agent. A control, widget or the Action Button starts listening. • Spoken prefixes add text, switch models or go to a bot: "Opus, review this diff". SEE THE AGENT WORK • Watch reasoning and tool calls live, with a Live Activity; lock the phone and it carries on. The list shows what's working or needs you. • Approve a risky command or answer the agent's question from a notification, out loud, or with a nod in AirPods. Pair your Hermes and notifications arrive with Redde closed, encrypted end to end, and an agent you allow can call you. A FULL CLIENT, NOT JUST A MIC • Chats live in your gateway's session ledger: start on the phone, continue on the desktop or the CLI. Search them, pin, rename, fork, archive, or go incognito. • Projects, scheduled jobs and the Kanban board. • Phone tools: your agent can use your iPhone's calendar, reminders, contacts, photos and files, set alarms, write on a widget, and start calls and texts, each only if you allow it. • Rich replies: Markdown, code, tables, Mermaid diagrams, math, and cards with maps, places and the weather. Pictures, PDFs and audio open in place. • Ask about part of a reply, regenerate, edit and resend, or switch models with /model. • Attach photos, videos, files or a day's calendar, or share from any app. • Skills, tools, plugins, memory and context files; on the server, MCP servers, logs, updates, files and an SSH terminal. YOUR BACKEND, YOUR RULES • Connect to Hermes through the Hermes Dashboard or the Hermes API, on your LAN, over a tailnet, or behind Cloudflare Access, Pangolin or a reverse proxy. Save several servers, see all their chats in one list, and sync them with iCloud. Sign in with a password or a browser. • Or go straight to any OpenAI-compatible endpoint: llama.cpp, llama-swap, vLLM or Ollama on your hardware, or a hosted provider with your key. • Set up by QR code or link. Credentials stay in the Keychain. • Face ID lock, seven themes with your own colors, app icons and voice orbs, iPad split view, iPhone Duo. • The one service we run is an optional relay for notifications, which can't read them. REQUIRES A Hermes agent (github.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent) or an OpenAI-compatible endpoint; bots need Hermes. Redde includes no model and no AI service of its own. Hermes is an open-source project by Nous Research. Redde is an independent client, not affiliated with it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Hermes Redde at free against Synaplan AI Control's freemium. Hermes Redde also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 9 days) and ratings volume (23 vs 1). Synaplan AI Control's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). 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. Synaplan AI Control sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $22.99 per month and Hermes Redde sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Synaplan AI Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Redde has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Synaplan AI Control ships an update every 9 days, Hermes Redde every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Synaplan AI Control | Hermes Redde |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.8 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | metadist data management GmbH | Goosehouse LLC |
Customer experience
Synaplan AI Control
Hermes Redde
In-app purchases
Synaplan AI Control
- Pro Access Monthly$22.991 Month
- Team Access Monthly$59.991 Month
- Business Access Monthly$119.991 Month
Hermes Redde
- A Coffee$2.99
- A snack$4.99
- A dinner$9.99
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