Pomelu

Judgement

What it is

Integration

What it does

Android and iOS app for chatting with your own self-hosted Hermes Agent, with one chat per bot, voice, files and approvals.

Adopt it when

You already run Hermes Agent from Nous Research and want to reach it from your phone or tablet.

Watch out

Useful only with Hermes Agent 0.21.5 or newer running somewhere you control; a two-week-old project from one maker.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Mobile app

Built with

Dart and Flutter

How established

New: started under a month ago, no tagged release yet.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-08 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Pomelu → SDK → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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