Comparison

Hermes Conduit vs Wander

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Hermes Conduit is an independent mobile client for connecting to a Hermes agent gateway from iPhone. It brings the core Hermes workflow into a touch-first interface designed for conversations, voice, monitoring, and quick control away from your desktop. REAL-TIME VOICE CONVERSATIONS • Talk naturally with two live voice engines: Gemini Live (Google) and GPT-Live (ChatGPT) — real-time speech with echo cancellation, not speak–wait–reply • Pick each engine's voice, end hands-free, keep the conversation going with the screen locked, take calls in the car with CarPlay, or start them from Siri • Run Hermes background jobs entirely by voice — start, list, and cancel — with results folded back into the conversation • The assistant draws on your host's memory and searches the web through your Hermes host; connection or quota problems are explained, never silently retried • Prefer the classic flow? Adaptive speech detection, spoken Stop and End controls, barge-in interruption, live mic metering, and automatic relisten after replies • Requires the Hermes Conduit Notifier plugin on your host (the same one that powers notifications and approval cards) CHAT WITHOUT LOSING CONTEXT • Continue sessions created on desktop or through configured connectors • Watch responses stream in as they are generated • Read Markdown, syntax-highlighted code, math, task lists, and Mermaid diagrams • Inspect tool calls, thinking, and delegated-agent progress when you want the details • Recent chats open instantly with a read-only saved copy while reconnecting • Attach images, PDFs, and text files — or paste an image into the composer — and view media full screen with save and share • Long sessions compress themselves so old conversations stay fast BOTS AND GROUP CHATS • Add Hermes bots to hosted group chats and mention anyone with @ • See who's responding in real time; room messages survive leaving and rejoining • Bot Chat notifications stay with the right conversation, even for turns that finish in the background CONTROL EACH SESSION • Choose a provider and model without leaving the conversation • Set a compatible reasoning effort for the active model • Monitor context usage with token counts and a visual progress ring • Browse workspace files and use slash commands • Steer or interrupt an active turn • Branch, pin, archive, refresh, or delete sessions MORE THAN CHAT • Switch between Hermes profiles and multiple Hermes servers, with scoped credentials per server • Review and trigger scheduled jobs • Enable or disable skills, tools, and MCP servers • Monitor configured connectors and recent gateway logs • Answer approval, clarify, and input requests from a push notification — including masked input cards for sensitive prompts • Toggle approval and input notification sounds BUILT FOR SELF-HOSTED HERMES Conduit connects to the Hermes dashboard and gateway that you configure. It does not include a hosted agent service. A working Hermes installation is required. Hermes Conduit is an independent client and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nous Research. Localized in English and Chinese (Simplified).

About

Wander

This app offers a clean writing experience for markdown files, ensuring your notes remain in plain text and accessible in your own folders. It provides a WYSIWYG editor that accurately reflects your markdown while keeping files tidy on disk, allowing for seamless offline use and no vendor lock-in.

Highlights
  • Plain markdown in owned folders
  • WYSIWYG editing
  • Wikilinks, tables, code blocks
  • Fast and native for iPhone/iPad
  • Works fully offline
  • No account required
Features
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Wander is a markdown editor that respects your files. Your notes stay plain markdown in folders you control: no account, no lock-in, no cloud required. What you see is what lands on disk, byte for byte. Write in a clean WYSIWYG editor, where bold looks bold and headings look like headings, while the file on disk stays tidy markdown with clean diffs. Images render in place too, so a note with photos reads like a page, not a preview pane. Open any folder of markdown and start writing; Wander reads and writes standard files, so nothing you open is trapped in the app. • Plain markdown, in folders you own • WYSIWYG editing, clean files on disk • Wikilinks, tables, code blocks, task lists, footnotes • Images inline: photos, galleries and captions render right in the note, sized with plain markdown • Fast and native for iPhone and iPad: works fully offline, no account • Your notes never leave your device unless you move them • Wander Cloud: an optional subscription for private vaults, sharing and agent tokens, free for 14 days. Public vaults stay free • Monthly or yearly. It renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings • Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://wander.md/privacy

Screenshots

Hermes Conduit4 screens
Wander4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hermes Conduit at none against Wander's 6. Hermes Conduit also leads on rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and chart position (#46 vs unranked). Wander's advantage is review sentiment (93% vs 59%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wander sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Hermes Conduit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hermes Conduit holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Hermes Conduit's written reviews are positive against 93% of Wander's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hermes Conduit ships an update weekly, Wander every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Hermes Conduit versus Wander: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHermes ConduitWander
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (20 ratings) — better4.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews58.8% of reviews92.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings20 — better5
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#46 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB151 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLong Cheung HoSystem Operator LLC

Customer experience

Hermes Conduit

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive58.8%
Neutral11.8%
Negative29.4%

Wander

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%

In-app purchases

None

Hermes Conduit

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Wander

Subscriptions2
  • Wander Cloud Monthly14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Wander Cloud Yearly14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time4
  • Become a patron: $2$2.00
  • Become a patron: $5$5.00
  • Become a patron: $10$10.00
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  • Become a patron: $15$15.00

Questions

Is Hermes Conduit free?
Hermes Conduit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wander free?
Wander is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hermes Conduit or Wander?
Hermes Conduit is rated higher. Hermes Conduit averages 4.3 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Wander averages 4.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Hermes Conduit or Wander have ads?
Neither Hermes Conduit nor Wander shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hermes Conduit or Wander?
Hermes Conduit ships an update weekly, and Wander every 2 days. Most recently, Hermes Conduit was updated on October 16, 2026 and Wander on October 15, 2026.

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