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Hermex is a native iPhone and iPad app for steering a Hermes agent you host yourself. Watch responses stream, answer approvals, and follow working bots and runs from the Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen. The agent runs on your server, not on your phone.
Free. Open source (MIT). Requires iOS or iPadOS 18 or later.
4.7
on the App Store. 486 ratings worldwide.
Free, everything in it. No subscription, no in-app purchases.
Hermex puts your Hermes agent’s controls in a native app. Here is what ships.
Responses stream live, with thinking and tool calls. Answer approvals and questions inline, run slash commands and /goal, and attach images and documents, or dictate by voice. Pick the model, Profile, reasoning and fast mode right from the composer.
Working bots and runs stay in view on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.
Turn push on and Hermex installs the open-source hermex-push plugin on your Hermes host. Notification text is end-to-end encrypted on the way through an open-source relay you can host yourself, which never sees message text, server URLs or credentials.
Search, open and resume every session; rename, pin, archive, branch or export one. A read-only offline cache keeps them readable without a connection.
Any model or provider configured on the server, picked right from the composer.
Browse and preview workspace files, find them with @, then stage, commit and push changes or switch branches.
Tasks you can create and Run Now, with run history and output. Live Kanban boards, Skills you can switch on and off, Memory you can edit, and Usage. Update Hermes from Settings, too.
Bots with animated faces live on your Hermes server’s home, beside Sessions. Create them, start group chats, and call one in with an @ mention.
Coming from hermes-webui? Move to Hermes brings a server’s chats and drafts to your Hermes server. It checks everything before it changes anything, and you can pause and resume it.
Hermex is one app for iPhone and iPad, localized in 17 languages. On iPad, a server’s home sits beside the open chat. It needs iOS or iPadOS 18 or later.
Hermex is only a client. The agent runs on a machine you control: Hermes Agent (open source, MIT) on Linux, macOS, WSL2 or Windows. Hermex 2.0 connects straight to its dashboard.
Install Hermes Agent, then start its dashboard on your machine.
hermes dashboard --no-openTailscale Serve is the recommended route. It gives you https://<machine>.<tailnet>.ts.net. Cloudflare Tunnel works too, behind Cloudflare Access. Set that address as the dashboard’s public_url, then restart it in a terminal: Hermes asks you to set a username and password.
tailscale serve --bg 9119In Hermex, enter the server URL, then the dashboard’s username and password.
Shortcut. The app’s onboarding offers an agent setup prompt. Send it to your Hermes agent; it does moves one and two, and replies with the address and sign-in.
Read the full setup guide4.7
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Still stuck after these? Ask in the Hermex Discord, or start with the setup guide.
Hermex is a native iPhone and iPad app for steering a Hermes agent you host yourself. The agent runs on your own machine, and Hermex connects straight to the dashboard that comes with Hermes Agent, so you can open sessions, stream responses, and direct the agent from wherever you are. Your server runs — your iPhone steers.
Two things: a machine you control running Hermes Agent 0.21.3 or later — Linux, macOS, WSL2 or native Windows — and an iPhone or iPad with Hermex 2.0, free on the App Store. New to Hermes? The setup guide starts with Nous Research’s installer.
Three moves: run the Hermes dashboard with its sign-in turned on, make it reachable with Tailscale Serve (or Cloudflare Tunnel behind Cloudflare Access), then enter your server URL, username and password in Hermex. The full setup guide walks through every step, and Hermex’s onboarding has a prompt that has your agent do the first two.
Yes. hermes-webui, a third-party open-source (MIT) server, is what Hermex used before 2.0. In Hermex 2.0, webui servers keep working and still get fixes; new features come to Hermes. Move to Hermes, in the app, brings a webui server’s chats and drafts to a Hermes server. The legacy webui guide covers setting one up.
Your phone talks directly to your own server — no developer backend sits in between. Tailscale Serve keeps the dashboard on your private tailnet over HTTPS; a public hostname gets Cloudflare Access in front of it. Turn on the dashboard’s sign-in before you expose it; Hermex keeps that sign-in in the iOS Keychain and sends it only to your server. The one exception is optional push notifications: they pass through an open-source relay, and their text is end-to-end encrypted.
No. Hermex has no analytics, ads, or tracking — your conversations travel between your device and your server. If you turn on push notifications, they go through an open-source relay that sees routing details but never message text, which is end-to-end encrypted. On the device, Hermex keeps your server details and sign-in in the iOS Keychain, and a small offline cache of recent conversations that expires after a week and goes when you sign out or remove the server. Details in the privacy policy.
Yes. Hermex is open source under the MIT license — the full app source lives on GitHub, so you can read exactly what it does, build it yourself, or open an issue. The agent side, Hermes Agent by Nous Research, is a separate open-source (MIT) project.
Sending messages needs a connection — the agent runs on your server, not your device. Offline, Hermex still opens with a read-only cache of your recent conversations, so you can re-read what the agent said without a signal.
iPhone and iPad running iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. The server side runs wherever Hermes Agent does — Linux, macOS, WSL2 or native Windows.
Nothing. Hermex is free on the App Store — no subscription, no in-app purchases. You bring the server it connects to.
Start with the setup guide — it ends with a troubleshooting section covering the common failure points. Still stuck? Ask in the Hermex Discord or message me on X. Found a bug? Open an issue on GitHub. Issues with Hermes itself live upstream at NousResearch/hermes-agent.