Comparison

Hermes Conduit vs gitbay

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, monitoring, and quick control away from your desktop. 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 • Attach images, PDFs, and text files—or paste an image directly into the composer 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 their profile-specific settings • Review and trigger scheduled jobs • Enable or disable skills, tools, and MCP servers • Monitor configured connectors and recent gateway logs • Receive optional notifications for approvals, input requests, completed responses, failed turns, and background tasks 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.

About

gitbay

Access and manage your git repositories on the go. Review code, track issues, and monitor builds from your mobile device. Securely connect to your own git forge instance without sharing passwords.

Highlights
  • Browse files, commit history, and branches
  • Review merge requests with diffs and threads
  • Manage issues with labels and milestones
  • Monitor CI builds and trigger jobs
  • View READMEs and wikis
  • Secure token-based authentication
Features
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gitbay is a CLI-first git forge. This is its iOS client: somewhere to read, review and respond when you are away from a keyboard. Sign in with a token you mint over SSH. There is no password, no browser flow, and no account with us — the app talks only to the instance you name, and the token stays in the device Keychain. BROWSE - Files, directory trees, and syntax-highlighted source - Commit history, a single commit with its patch, and blame - Branches, tags, and full-text search across a repository - READMEs and wikis, rendered as Markdown or Org REVIEW - Merge requests with the diff, file by file and hunk by hunk - Review threads anchored to diff lines, with replies and resolution - Approve, request changes, and merge with the strategies the server allows TRIAGE - Issues with labels, assignees, and milestones - Open, edit, comment, and close from the phone - Signature verdicts shown on every commit WATCH - A dashboard of what waits on your review, what is assigned to you, and what is still open - CI builds with their logs, and a trigger for any job the config names - Releases, organisations, teams, and profiles Every screen is backed by a command the server already exposes, so the app cannot drift from what the CLI and the web can do. Requires your own gitbay instance. gitbay is free software; the forge and this client are developed in the open at gitbay.org.

Screenshots

Hermes Conduit4 screens
gitbay4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: gitbay at daily against Hermes Conduit's every 5 days. Hermes Conduit's advantage is chart position (#73 vs unranked) and ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hermes Conduit against 5.0 for gitbay. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hermes Conduit has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hermes Conduit ships an update every 5 days, gitbay daily. Both last shipped on September 20, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Hermes Conduit versus gitbay: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHermes Conduitgitbay
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#73 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLong Cheung HoChristian Cleberg

Customer experience

Hermes Conduit

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%

gitbay

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

In-app purchases

None

Hermes Conduit

No in-app purchases

None

gitbay

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hermes Conduit free?
Hermes Conduit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is gitbay free?
gitbay is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hermes Conduit or gitbay?
Hermes Conduit and gitbay are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 7 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Hermes Conduit or gitbay have ads?
Neither Hermes Conduit nor gitbay shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hermes Conduit or gitbay?
Hermes Conduit ships an update every 5 days, and gitbay daily. Most recently, Hermes Conduit was updated on September 20, 2026 and gitbay on September 20, 2026.

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