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New in 3.0CarPlay, Apple Watch and Hermes PetCarPlay, Watch & Hermes Pet

Your Hermes,in your pocket.

Herald is a native app for the Hermes Agent you already run on your own computer. Chat with every bot, put them in group chats, talk hands-free and sign off on what they do. On the couch, on the train, or out walking the dog.

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$12.99, once. No subscription. No account. No Herald server in the middle.

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Interactive demo
Tap a conversation to try it. Sample data only.
  • Zed wants to run git pushNeeds you
  • Teknium finished the research briefDone
  • Patch reviewed 14 files in Droid Room
  • research@ got 3 new emailsMail
  • Rev is refactoring the auth moduleWorking
  • Hermes scheduled your 7:30 morning brief
  • Synth drafted three taglines for you
  • Fixer moved “Ship v3” to DoneKanban
  • Scout answered on Telegram. Pick it up here

Everything your Hermes can do.
Now it fits in one hand.

Herald isn’t a chat wrapper. It’s a full remote for your agents, built natively for iPhone, iPad and Android.

Bots that talk to each other.

Put several bots in one room, even ones running on different computers. Type @ to point at one. They take turns and build on each other, and the room stays in sync with Hermes on your desktop.

Say “Hey Herald.”

Go hands-free. The wake word is detected on your device, your own Hermes transcribes the rest, and replies are read aloud.

Zed wants to run a command
rm -rf ./build && npm run deployWaiting for you…

Nothing risky without your OK.

When a bot wants to run something sensitive, Herald asks first. Get a push when it needs you, then approve or deny in one tap.

Give a bot its own inbox.

Mint an address like research@hermesmailagent.com from your phone. Read what arrives and hand threads to a bot. Optional, powered by HermesMailAgent, a separate service in early access.

Boards and schedules.

Your Hermes kanban board, in your pocket. Create, pause and run cron jobs for each bot, like a morning brief at 7:30.

Send anything to a bot.

Share a link, photo or file from any app straight into a chat. “Summarise this” has never been easier.

Pick up where you left off.

Started something on Telegram, in the terminal or on the desktop? Open the bot’s sessions and carry on from your phone.

Say hi to Boba.

Know what your bots are up to at a glance, even from the Lock Screen.

Hermes Pet is a little companion that acts out what a bot is doing. It runs while the bot works, waits when it needs you, and jumps when the job’s done. Follow it on the Dynamic Island, your Lock Screen, a StandBy widget, your Apple Watch, CarPlay or an Android notification.

Boba is the default. If your Hermes has its own pet enabled, Herald shows that one instead. The Lock Screen card follows along while Herald is running, and you choose how much it reveals.

How Hermes Pet works
Pick Boba’s mood

Rev: Refactoring the auth module.

  • Create bots from your phoneName, personality and avatar in a few taps.
  • Switch modelsPick which model each bot thinks with.
  • Images with /imaginePlus photos, video, audio and files in chat.
  • Made for reading codeOne-tap copy. HTML and SVG preview.
  • Plugins, skills and MCPToggle them per bot, even sign in to MCP servers.
  • Bot ScreenWatch a bot drive its Linux desktop, or take over.
  • Usage and costsToken and spend charts straight from your Hermes.
  • Face ID lockKeep Herald locked behind biometrics.
  • Many computersHome Mac, VPS and a Mini on Tailscale, one list.
  • English, 日本語, PortuguêsHerald speaks three languages and counting.

Explore every feature in depth

New

Tag @HeraldHermes on X.
Your Hermes takes it from there.

Spot a thread worth digging into? Reply with @HeraldHermes and what you want done. Herald brings the request to your phone, and your phone hands it to your own Hermes. It’s optional and stays off until you link an X account.

  1. Link X in Settings.Settings › General › X › Link X account. You sign in on X’s own page, and Herald keeps only your numeric X user id.
  2. Tag @HeraldHermes.Reply to any post with something like “@HeraldHermes summarise this thread”. Only mentions from your linked account count.
  3. Send it to your bot.Herald passes the request to your default agent straight away, unless Review X requests before sending is on: then it waits for you to tap Send to Hermes.
How X mentions work What the relay stores
Herald’s relay reads your mention and pings your phone. Only your phone talks to your Hermes.
  • Herald never posts, replies, likes or sends messages from your X account. We only request read access to look up your X user ID, then revoke it.
  • Herald’s own @HeraldHermes account may post a short public confirmation under your mention (turn it off under “Reply on X when I tag @HeraldHermes”) and a one-time invite to people who tag it without a linked account. Hermes’ answers are never posted to X.
  • The notification only says a request is waiting, never what it says.
  • Requests wait on the relay for 24 hours at most. Unlink, or post “@HeraldHermes stop”, and your link and requests are deleted.

Real screens.
Not mockups.

Every screenshot here is from the shipping build, talking to a real Hermes on a real Mac. What you see is what you get.

Streaming replies, with a copy button on every code block
Streaming replies, with a copy button on every code block
Group chats where bots @mention each other
Group chats where bots @mention each other
Every bot from every computer in one list
Every bot from every computer in one list
Light, dark, and an accent that’s yours
Light, dark, and an accent that’s yours
Set up in about two minutes
Set up in about two minutes

Phone, wrist, car.
Your agents come along.

One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay. Android gets the full app on Google Play too.

Apple Watch

Glance. Know. Get on with your day.

Herald on Apple Watch shows every bot and room from your iPhone, live. Raise your wrist in a meeting and see that Rev is still working and Zed needs a yes.

  • Your whole roster on your wrist, bots and group rooms included
  • See who’s working, waiting for you or done at a glance
  • Read the latest message from any bot without reaching for your phone
  • Boba acts out what each bot is doing, right in the watch app

Needs watchOS 10 or later and a paired iPhone running Herald.

Herald on Apple Watch
CarPlay

Talk to your agents on the drive home.

Plug in your iPhone and Herald appears on the car’s screen. Pick a bot or a group room, hear what you missed, and reply by voice. Your eyes stay on the road and the work keeps moving.

Voice-only by design, as Apple requires for driving. Needs an iPhone on iOS 26.4 or later and a CarPlay-equipped car.

Herald on CarPlay

iPad Mission Control

A sidebar, a chat and an inspector side by side. Split two chats at once, drag files in, and fly around with ⌘K and other keyboard shortcuts.

Herald on iPad

Siri and Control Center

Say “Talk to Herald” or add the Control Center button to jump straight into a voice chat. Requires iOS 18 or later.

Siri and Control Center

Android, fully featured

Same app, same features: voice, groups, approvals, share-to-bot and an ongoing pet notification.

Herald on Android

See it in action.
All in 95 seconds.

A real recording of Herald on an iPhone, start to finish. Jump to the part you care about.

Your agents. Your computer.
Nobody in between.

Herald talks straight to the Hermes you run. Your messages, files and voice go to your machine and nowhere else. There’s no Herald account to sign up for, and no Herald server holding your chats.

Read the privacy policy
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Herald servers in your chats
0
analytics or ads in the app
0
accounts to create

Passwords and tokens live in the iOS Keychain or Android Keystore. Use HTTPS or Tailscale for remote access. Optional push banners travel through Expo, Apple and Google, and optional X mentions through a small Herald relay.

One command.
One scan. Done.

  1. Run the helper on your computer.On the machine with Hermes, run npx herald-setup. It secures the dashboard, starts hermes serve and uses Tailscale if you have it.
  2. Scan the QR code with Herald.The app walks you through it. Every bot you already have shows up as a chat.
  3. Take your agents with you.Keep the computer on and reachable, and your bots are a tap away wherever you go.
Setup guides for every computer
~ on your Mac

$npx herald-setup

Pricing

$12.99once.

Buy it once and it’s yours. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads, no account.

iPhone, iPad and WatchIn review with Apple

Price in US dollars. The App Store and Google Play set local prices and taxes. Model usage is billed by whichever providers your Hermes uses, not by Herald.

  • Every feature. Nothing locked behind a paywall
  • iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and CarPlay in one App Store purchase
  • Android on Google Play
  • As many bots and Hermes computers as you like
  • Voice, group chats, approvals, Hermes Pet, mail and more
  • No Herald account. Nothing to sign up for
  • iPhoneThe full app
  • iPadMission Control
  • Apple WatchRoster and pet
  • CarPlayVoice chats
  • WidgetsLive Activities
  • SiriControl Center
  • AndroidOn Google Play

Questions, answered.

Something else on your mind? We read every message.

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Your bots miss you.
Take them with you.

Herald for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android. $12.99, once.

iPhone, iPad and WatchIn review with Apple

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