Hermes Conduit vs Unofficial OpenCode Client
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Unofficial OpenCode Client
This client allows you to remotely interact with your self-hosted AI coding agent. Monitor sessions live, respond to prompts, review code changes, and manage worktrees from your mobile device. It connects securely to your own server, ensuring no data leaves your environment.
- Live session monitoring
- Permission prompt handling
- Code diff review
- Worktree management
- Contextual prompting
- Voice dictation
- Terminal access
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OpenCode Mobile is an unofficial, independent native client for the opencode server you run on your own computer. It is not made, published or endorsed by the opencode project. Start a session, follow it live, answer permission prompts and questions, and review changes while your AI coding agent keeps working at home. Nothing runs in our cloud. The app talks only to your own server. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Follow sessions live in Session Chat, with rendered Markdown and a tool-result inspector • Approve or deny permission requests and answer the agent's questions • Review diffs from the latest turn • Start work in worktrees and see them grouped under their project • Prompt with context: mention several skills, run shell commands with !cmd, attach files • Fork a session, or fork from a specific message • Open a live Terminal on your server and read project files • Dictate prompts by voice, recognised on your device • Use tablet split view with keyboard shortcuts • See a retry countdown and next steps when you hit a rate or usage limit • Pick your chat timeline (Standard, Chips, Step Rail or Activity Card), compact or classic Home, and a theme • Lock the app with optional App Lock CONNECT YOUR WAY • Remote QR: run opencode pair --remote on your computer and scan the code (OpenCode 2.0.25 or later) • Same Wi-Fi QR: let the server listen on your network, run opencode pair and scan • Host, username and password for OpenCode 1 and OpenCode 2 servers • Pairing code when the camera is not available Works over your LAN, a VPN, HTTPS, or a tunnel such as Tailscale. Step-by-step guide: https://opencode-mobile.github.io/opencode-mobile-docs/connecting/ PRIVATE AND OPEN • Your server password stays in iOS Keychain • The app does not host models or run your code • Release builds send crash reports through Firebase, and usage analytics you can switch off in Settings • The source code is public under GPL-3.0: https://github.com/opencode-mobile/opencode-mobile REQUIREMENTS A reachable opencode server and its password.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hermes Conduit at 4.7 against Unofficial OpenCode Client's 4.0. Hermes Conduit also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 50%) and ratings volume (53 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hermes Conduit holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Conduit has 53 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Hermes Conduit's written reviews are positive against 50% of Unofficial OpenCode Client's.
Hermes Conduit ships an update weekly, Unofficial OpenCode Client every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Hermes Conduit | Unofficial OpenCode Client |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (53 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #76 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Long Cheung Ho | Ivan Fenenko |
Customer experience
Hermes Conduit
Unofficial OpenCode Client
In-app purchases
Hermes Conduit
No in-app purchases
Unofficial OpenCode Client
No in-app purchases
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