Best Hermes Agent Dashboards & Mobile Apps (2026 Guide)

Hermes Agent by Nous Research is the fastest-growing open-source AI agent on GitHub, with 214K+ stars. The core agent is CLI-first, running from your terminal with hermes or in a full TUI with hermes --tui. That’s great for developers who live in the terminal. But you also need to check on your agent from a browser tab at work, a phone on the couch, or a tablet at a coffee shop.

The ecosystem has responded with dashboard web UIs, desktop apps, Android apps, iOS apps, and messaging integrations. There are now 10+ ways to interact with Hermes Agent outside the terminal. This guide compares every major option so you can pick the right one for your workflow.

Quick comparison: all Hermes Agent UIs at a glance

Here’s the 30-second overview of every major Hermes Agent UI.

The diagram is a high-level map of the main categories. The comparison table above includes additional options such as Hermes Workspace and Hermes Control Interface.

Best Hermes Agent web dashboards

Web dashboards run in a browser and are ideal for remote management from any device. You can self-host them on a VPS, run them locally, or tunnel them through SSH. The main options below cover everything from the official built-in panel to full IDE-style workspaces.

Official Hermes Web Dashboard

The built-in dashboard is part of the core Hermes package (ships with Hermes Agent v0.16+). Launch it with hermes dashboard and you get a FastAPI/Uvicorn backend with a React 19 + TypeScript + Tailwind frontend on port 9119.

What you get:

• Status page: live overview with auto-refresh every 5 seconds
• Chat: embedded PTY-backed TUI via WebSocket, full terminal experience in the browser
• Config editor: form-based YAML editor covering 150+ fields, no more manual file editing
• Sessions: browse, search (FTS5), export, and prune conversation history
• Logs: agent, gateway, and error logs with level/component filtering and live tail
• Analytics: 7/30/90-day token usage, cost tracking, per-model breakdown
• Cron jobs: schedule, pause/resume, trigger, and edit scheduled tasks
• Skills & MCP: browse, search, toggle skills; add/test/enable/disable MCP servers
• Profiles: create, switch, clone, manage agent profiles
• API Keys: environment variable manager with redacted display values
• Gateway health: monitor the status of 20+ messaging platform connections

Auth options include OAuth via Nous Portal, username/password, and self-hosted OIDC. Six built-in themes are included, plus a custom theme system.

Prerequisites: install the web and PTY extras first.

pip install -e ".[web,pty]"

# Default — opens browser, port 9119
hermes dashboard

# Custom port, server mode (no browser auto-open)
hermes dashboard --port 9120 --no-open

# Remote-accessible (pair with auth!)
hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0 --no-open

# docker-compose.yml
services:
  hermes:
    image: nousresearch/hermes-agent:latest
    ports:
      - "9119:9119"
    volumes:
      - ~/.hermes:/root/.hermes
    command: hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0

# Bind to all interfaces on a custom port
hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --no-open

# Use with a reverse proxy (Caddy, Nginx)
# See our Hermes Agent dashboard setup guide for
# SSH tunnel, Caddy, and Docker security setup

The official dashboard has a full REST API, so you can script any management operation programmatically. If you want the simplest setup with no extra dependencies, this is it. For full security configuration including SSH tunnels and reverse proxy setup, see our Hermes Agent dashboard setup guide.

Hermes WebUI by nesquena

The most popular community dashboard with 16K+ GitHub stars (MIT). Its defining trait: zero dependencies. No Node.js, no bundler, no framework. Just Python’s standard-library HTTP server and vanilla JavaScript. Active as of July 2026 with 1,200+ releases.

Launch commands:

# Clone first, then bootstrap (recommended)
git clone https://github.com/nesquena/hermes-webui.git
cd hermes-webui
python3 bootstrap.py

# Or use the shell script after clone
./start.sh

# Docker
docker pull ghcr.io/nesquena/hermes-webui:latest
docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -v ~/.hermes:/home/hermeswebui/.hermes \
  ghcr.io/nesquena/hermes-webui:latest
# Opens http://localhost:8787

The mobile-responsive design makes this the best web dashboard for phone-based access — the hamburger sidebar and touch targets are designed for it. It also has a built-in Kanban board (see the Hermes Kanban setup guide for details) and web search capabilities that pair well with TinyFish free search for AI coding agents.

If you want to extend Hermes with web search and page fetching for your agent, the TinyFish web search API integrates cleanly. It gives your agent 30 search/min and 150 fetch/min for free, which complements the WebUI’s built-in extraction capabilities.

Best for: Users who want a lightweight, zero-dependency web UI that works on mobile browsers out of the box.

Hermes Workspace

Hermes Workspace is the IDE-style option: chat, embedded terminal, file browser, memory viewer, skills hub, MCP management, and multi-agent orchestration in one React/TypeScript UI. 6.1K stars, MIT licensed.

The Conductor / Swarm features are unique here. You describe a complex task, and the workspace breaks it into subtasks, dispatches specialized agents, and merges results. No other dashboard on this list ships that orchestration UI as a first-class surface.

# Docker Compose (recommended)
git clone https://github.com/outsourc-e/hermes-workspace.git
cd hermes-workspace
docker compose up -d
# Workspace on port 3000, Hermes gateway on 8642

Best for: Users who want a full agent operations console (terminal + files + multi-agent), not only chat.

Hermes Studio by EKKOLearnAI

The most feature-rich option. 9.1K stars. Built with Vue 3 + TypeScript + Vite + Naive UI, with a Koa backend and Socket.IO for real-time chat. The repo was renamed from hermes-web-ui to hermes-studio; the npm package is still hermes-web-ui.

What sets it apart:

• Platform channels: configure 8 platforms (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Matrix, Feishu, WeChat, WeCom) from the UI
• Group chat: multi-agent rooms with @mention routing between agents
• Coding agent integrations: Codex and Claude Code integration built in
• Web terminal: node-pty + xterm.js, full terminal in the browser
• Voice/TTS/STT: browser Web Speech, Edge TTS, OpenAI-compatible, MiMo
• File browser: supports local, Docker, SSH, and Singularity backends
• Model management: auto-discover providers, add/update/delete models
• Multi-profile: clone, export, import profiles
• Usage analytics: token usage, cost, model distribution charts
• Kanban board: profile-aware task management (see Hermes Kanban setup guide)

Launch commands:

# npm global install
npm install -g hermes-web-ui && hermes-web-ui start   # Port 8648

# Docker
WEBUI_IMAGE=ekkoye8888/hermes-web-ui docker compose up -d   # Port 6060

Best for: Power users and teams who want the richest feature set, especially multi-agent rooms and platform channel management.

Hermes Control Interface (HCI)

HCI is the security-focused admin panel. 800 stars, MIT, vanilla JS + Vite + Express (minimal frontend framework surface). It prioritizes RBAC, CSRF, rate limiting, and auditability over visual polish.

What you get:

• Password gate with bcrypt hashing, CSRF on mutating endpoints, rate limiting
• ~20 permissions across admin / viewer / custom roles
• Browser terminal (xterm.js), file explorer, sessions, cron, system metrics
• Multi-agent / Office swarm monitor with kanban-style task views
• PWA installable to the homescreen

git clone https://github.com/xaspx/hermes-control-interface.git
cd hermes-control-interface
cp .env.example .env   # set HERMES_CONTROL_PASSWORD + HERMES_CONTROL_SECRET
npm install && npm run build
node server.js         # http://localhost:10274

Requires Node.js 20+ and the hermes CLI on PATH on the same machine.

Best for: Teams that need granular access control and a hardened admin surface more than a pretty chat UI.

Scarf dashboard — macOS native

A native macOS app (Swift/SwiftUI) that reads Hermes SQLite directly for real-time data. 727 stars, MIT licensed, requires macOS 14.6+ (Sonoma). Latest releases ship as notarized universal binaries from GitHub Releases (not the App Store, because Scarf needs non-sandboxed access to ~/.hermes/ and the hermes binary).

Features: Dashboard, analytics, sessions browser, activity feed, live chat (Rich ACP or terminal), memory editor, skills browser, platforms GUI, personalities, cron manager, health monitoring, gateway control, and custom project dashboards that agents can auto-generate via JSON widgets.

Multi-window support lets you monitor multiple Hermes servers simultaneously (local + remote over SSH). A menu bar status icon keeps agent health visible at all times. ScarfGo is the iOS companion (covered in the mobile section).

Best for: macOS users who want a native app experience instead of a browser tab. Not a web dashboard in the traditional sense. It’s a proper macOS application that happens to do everything a dashboard does.

Best Hermes Agent desktop apps

Desktop apps offer tighter OS integration than browser dashboards. They have system tray icons, native notifications, keyboard shortcuts, and offline access to cached data. Some tools (Hermes Studio, Scarf) appear in both the web dashboard and desktop sections because they ship as both.

Official Hermes Desktop

The official Electron-based desktop app, available since Hermes v0.16. Launch with hermes desktop. It’s built into the core package.

It tracks Hermes releases closely, so you always get the latest features. Documentation is at hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/desktop.

Best for: Users who want the official, maintained-by-Nous-Research desktop experience.

Hermes One by fathah

The most popular community desktop app, with 13.3K stars, MIT licensed, runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Repo: fathah/hermes-desktop. Product site: hermesone.org. Not affiliated with Nous Research.

Best for: Cross-platform desktop users who want the richest standalone desktop experience with local model support.

Hermes Studio desktop (Electron)

Hermes Studio also ships as an Electron desktop app. It stores Hermes Agent data in the native location (~/.hermes) and provides managed command shims: hermes-studio cli, hermes-studio web, and hermes-studio-mcp.

Auto-update works through Cloudflare download endpoints with GitHub fallback. Cross-reference Hermes Studio by EKKOLearnAI for the full feature list. The desktop version has the same capabilities as the web dashboard.

Best for: Users who want Hermes Studio’s feature set in a standalone desktop window.

Best Hermes Agent mobile apps for Android

Android’s openness makes it the richer mobile platform for Hermes. There are two types of apps: full Hermes runtimes that execute the agent directly on the device, and lightweight clients that connect to a remote Hermes instance over the network.

Hermes Agent Android (Google Play)

By Hen Works. Google Play listing: 4.5 stars with 1.98K reviews, 10K+ downloads. Free with an in-app purchase (Hermes Pro) to remove ads.

What it does:

• Multi-model support — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenRouter, LiteRT for local models
• Built-in Linux terminal (bash, Python, git)
• Code execution directly on the device
• Multi-platform gateway (Telegram, Slack, Discord)
• Web search and page extraction
• AI image generation via Fal.ai
• Text-to-speech via Edge TTS
• Memory system across conversations
• Session management with resume
• Dashboard web UI for monitoring
• Chat Skin option (Labs) — terminal UI or chat bubbles with tool cards and photo attachments

Best for: Android users who want the full Hermes experience without a separate server.

Hermes Android Client by rusty4444

A lightweight Flutter/Dart client (88 stars, MIT, v1.0.10+) that connects to a remote Hermes instance via the Gateway API (port 8642) and dashboard API (port 9119). Download APKs from GitHub Releases.

Android app (Flutter)
├─ Gateway API Server, port 8642
│  ├─ GET /api/sessions
│  ├─ GET /api/sessions/{id}/messages
│  └─ POST /v1/chat/completions (SSE streaming)
└─ Hermes dashboard, port 9119
   ├─ /api/memory
   ├─ /api/cron/jobs
   ├─ /api/skills
   └─ /api/model/*

Features include voice chat (mic dictation + TTS replies), streaming SSE responses, theme toggle (Dark/Light/System), full CRUD cron management, skills browser, memory viewer, Tailscale support for remote access, and HTTPS connections.

It also handles password-protected dashboards (basic-auth login flow) and reverse-proxy path prefixes.

Best for: Users who already have Hermes running on a server or desktop and want a lightweight Android client.

Long-running tasks and push notifications

There is no widely adopted standalone “Hermes Dispatch” app with a public install path that matches the major dashboards above. For background work and phone notifications, use the official stack instead:

• Hermes Kanban / async subagents on the server for long-running jobs that survive phone disconnects (see the Hermes Kanban setup guide)
• ntfy as a Hermes messaging channel for push alerts to Android/iOS (official ntfy docs)
• Telegram / Discord gateway for fire-and-forget task messages without installing another client

If you need the agent to control an Android device (ADB-style remote control), look at community bridge projects such as raulvidis/hermes-android — that is a device-control bridge, not a chat dashboard.

Best for: Server-side long jobs with phone alerts, without depending on a niche mobile-only product.

Best Hermes Agent mobile apps for iOS

ScarfGo

The native iOS companion to the Scarf macOS app (awizemann/scarf). Available via TestFlight, requires iOS 18.0+. Uses SSH for connectivity via the Citadel library — no ssh binary needed on the device.

Features:

• Ed25519 keypair stored in iOS Keychain
• Multi-server support
• Project-scoped chat
• Session resume
• Memory editor, cron list, skills tree
• Profile switching (ScarfGo v2.13+)
• Voice chat support
• Per-server connection pooling

Best for: Users who already run Scarf on macOS and want the same experience on iPhone. The macOS app and iOS companion are designed to work together.

Onepilot

A native iOS app on the App Store (freemium): Onepilot — AI agents & SSH. Supports iPhone and iPad. Docs: onepilotapp.com/agents/hermes. This is the closest thing to a full development cockpit on iOS.

What it does:

• Deploys Hermes over SSH with a guided wizard
• Real terminal (not just a chat interface)
• Syntax-highlighted file browser
• Git tab with diffs
• Cron management
• Also supports OpenClaw, Claude Code, and Codex CLI
• Wires Telegram/Discord/Slack during deployment

As the developers put it: “There is no official Hermes app” — Onepilot positions itself as the next best thing. The SSH tunnel gives you full host access (files, shell, git), making it more than just a chat client.

Best for: iOS users who want a full development environment on their phone or tablet, not just a chat interface.

Hermes AI: Personal Agent

An independent iOS app by Ilya Vishneuski (App Store). Requires iOS 17.0+ (also listed for Mac with Apple silicon and visionOS). 11.9 MB download. Not affiliated with Nous Research.

Features: Real-time chat, task tracking and output review, approve/reject sensitive actions, secure session management across devices. Offers a managed agent subscription option for users who do not want to self-host.

Best for: Users who want a managed, subscription-style Hermes experience on iOS rather than connecting to their own server.

Hermes Mobile by uzairansar

A native iOS client in TestFlight beta (uzairansar.com/hermes-mobile), built with SwiftUI. Connects to a self-hosted Hermes WebUI instance — it does not provide a hosted backend.

Features:

• Reopen sessions from iPhone
• Stream responses live
• Attach photos, files, and share-sheet content
• Choose model, reasoning level, workspace, and run options
• Browse project files
• View tasks, skills, memory, and usage stats

Best for: Users who already self-host Hermes WebUI and want a native iOS client to interact with it.

Mobile access via messaging channels

The simplest way to get Hermes on your phone: use the built-in messaging gateway. No extra apps to install — just chat with your agent through Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp, Signal, or Slack.

Setup is straightforward:

# Configure the messaging gateway
hermes gateway setup
# Follow prompts for your platform (e.g., Telegram bot token)

# Start the gateway
hermes gateway start

Telegram limitations worth knowing (from community feedback): you only get a single session view, there’s a message queuing delay, no visible token count or model info, and context window resets are not communicated. For casual use it’s great. For heavy development work, use a proper dashboard or desktop app.

How to choose the right Hermes Agent UI

Ready to get started? Follow our Hermes Agent setup guide to install Hermes and configure your first model. For the cheapest AI models for Hermes Agent, we have a separate comparison of budget-friendly API providers.

Security considerations for remote access

Any dashboard or mobile app exposed to the network needs proper security. This is non-negotiable — a Hermes dashboard without auth gives anyone full control of your agent, your API keys, and potentially your server.

SSH tunnels (easiest)

The simplest secure approach — tunnel the dashboard port through SSH:

# Tunnel WebUI (port 8787)
ssh -N -L 8787:127.0.0.1:8787 user@your-server

# Tunnel Official Dashboard (port 9119)
ssh -L 9119:localhost:9119 user@your-vps

# Then open http://localhost:8787 or http://localhost:9119 locally

Tailscale (most secure for regular use)

Install Tailscale on your server and phone/laptop. Access the dashboard via the Tailscale IP. No ports exposed to the public internet. The Hermes Android Client has built-in Tailscale support.

Password protection

# Password protect the official dashboard
cat >> ~/.hermes/.env <<'EOF'
HERMES_DASHBOARD_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME=admin
HERMES_DASHBOARD_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD=your-strong-password
HERMES_DASHBOARD_BASIC_AUTH_SECRET=$(openssl rand -base64 32)
EOF
chmod 600 ~/.hermes/.env
hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0 --no-open

Auth support by dashboard

For full security setup including Caddy reverse proxy configuration and Docker networking, see our Hermes Agent dashboard setup guide.

FAQ

Conclusion

There’s no single “best” Hermes Agent UI — the right choice depends on your device, workflow, and how much control you need. Here’s the short version:

Pick one option, set it up, and iterate. Most of these tools are free or have free tiers, so there’s no cost to experimenting.

To get Hermes installed and running, start with our Hermes Agent setup guide. For the built-in dashboard security setup, see the Hermes dashboard guide. For free models, check the MIMO V2 Pro guide, and for budget paid models see best cheap models for Hermes Agent.