bighelp vs Hermes Redde

bighelp is a streamlined way to work with the AI agents you run with Hermes. Whether you want a simple chat interface, or a full fleet command center, bighelp has it covered. CHATS THAT FEEL LIKE TEXTING • Message any of your agents one on one • Watch replies arrive as they're written • Type, talk, or share photos and files • Pick up any conversation right where you left off GROUP CHATS • Pull several agents into one thread • Mention who should take what, and they split the work A FACE FOR EVERY AGENT • Give each agent a name, a face and a job • Live avatars show when an agent is thinking, working or waiting on you WORKFLOWS Build and manage custom node-style workflows for repeatable processes across your agents! YOU STAY IN CHARGE • Approvals let an agent ask before it acts • Agents can reply with cards and forms, so choosing is one tap TASKS ON A SCHEDULE • Set up a morning brief, a weekly budget check-in or a fare watch • Pause or change a task anytime VOICE • Talk it through, turn by turn or live • Turn-based voice is transcribed on your device EVERYWHERE YOU ARE • Notifications, Live Activities, widgets and Shortcuts • An Apple Watch app for quick replies and approvals • Works on iPhone and iPad • Light and dark themes NERD MODE Everyday controls stay simple. Turn on Nerd Mode in Settings to reveal host tools like files, plugins and logs. OPTIONAL DEVICE TOOLS With your permission, agents can add to your Calendar and Reminders and see where you are. Each is off until you turn it on under Permissions. HOW BIGHELP CONNECTS bighelp connects directly to a Hermes host you run, such as your own Mac, over your home network, Tailscale or HTTPS. Sign in with that host's own login. No separate bighelp account is needed. The free bighelp plugin for Hermes adds notifications, live voice, cards and the Feed. Your Hermes host remains the agent engine. AI, voice, storage and infrastructure providers configured on that host may process data under their own terms and may require separate accounts or subscriptions.

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 the server you configured. 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 for a while. • Ask a bot from Siri, CarPlay, the Apple Watch or a spoken word. TALK, DON'T TYPE • Tap the mic, 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, a Kokoro server or your Hermes. • Hands-free mode keeps the conversation going until you say "that's all". Talk over an answer, or type, to steer it. • In CarPlay, ask through the car's mic and speakers, 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. A Control Center button, a widget or the Action Button starts listening. • Spoken prefixes: a word you chose adds a text prefix, switches model or goes to a bot: "Opus, review this diff". • Siri takes notes for your agent; Shortcuts can ask it things. SEE THE AGENT WORK • Watch reasoning and tool calls live, with a Live Activity; lock the phone and the reply carries on. • The list shows what's working, what needs you and what's unread. • 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. A FULL CLIENT, NOT JUST A MIC • Conversations live in your gateway's session ledger: start on the phone, continue on the desktop, Telegram or the CLI. Search inside 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. • Select part of a reply and ask about it. 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, 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 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, keyboard shortcuts. • 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.