Comparison

Helios vs 掌柜CFO

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Helios

Streamline business travel and expense management. Connect flights, hotels, and expenses, and automate reimbursement processes. Offers real-time budget control and multi-angle analysis for efficient business management.

Highlights
  • Connect multi-business trip scenarios
  • Compliance approval of multi-budget dimensions
  • Multi-angle control analysis of process
  • Intelligent invoice management
  • Multi-platform and speedy processing
  • Real-time data diversification
  • Global supported version
Features
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1. Connection of multi business trip scenarios Connected to hotel, flight ticket, train, cab, business expenses, conference booking and etc. with Helios platform, easy and fast arrangement for your business trip, no more advanced payment, no more physical receipt submitting. 2. Compliance approval of multi budget dimensions Perfectly implement the budget editing/control via item details and expense standard to have real time excess warning. Control consistency and compliancy spending on every single expense item. 3. Multi-angle control analysis of process All levels of leadership can analyze the expenses via angles of department, project and employee to control the business management and analysis. Create an one stop solution to complete the operations of approval batch, payment, export payment documents. 4. Multi-form of invoice intelligent management Besides manually filling the invoice information, you can also scan the QR code to identify, check and verify invoice automatically. And, even retrieve the e-bill information directly from WeChat, Alipay card package and other 3rd party applications. Structured collation, online review and statistics. 5. Multi-platform and speedy processing Quick checking on personal reimbursement, review progress at any time, mobile platform, PC side multi-platform support, can make use of 'fragment time' to submit or approve reimbursement applications, improve business management efficiency. 6. Real time data diversification Data cloud storage, easy synchronization, diversified presentation of complex data, cross-analysis of multi-dimensional cost data, real time control of organizational expenses, providing a visual global perspective for enterprise. 7. Global supported version Support multi-language, multi-currency, international cloud deployment to fulfill enterprises global demand. 8. Customizable and high flexibility configuration and processing It can be connected with various financial software, automatically generate accounting documents and can customize exclusive reimbursement and application configuration according to requirements.

About

掌柜CFO

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掌柜CFO 是一个不联网的本地记账工具。 它不做云同步、不注册账号、不上传任何数据 —— 打开飞行模式,记账照样完整可用 (只有购买或恢复高级功能时才需要联网)。 你的账目只存在你自己的手机里,用密码加密。 【它想帮你看清的一件事】 不是"这个月花了多少",而是: 你的钱在被利息啃掉多少,你的造血能力还剩多少,净资产是在变厚还是在变薄。 很多人记账记的是流水,看不出这三件事。掌柜CFO 的报表就是围着它们做的。 【功能】 · 账户全景 现金、银行卡、信用卡、贷款分开记。信用卡区分"本期应还"与"未出账单"—— 这两个数永远分行显示,不混成一个总额,因为混在一起你就看不出真实的还款压力。 · 记一笔 支出、收入、转账。分类可自定义,每一笔还能标记公私归属 —— 自己开店的人,钱包和店里的账本来就是混在一起的,这个工具就是按这个前提设计的, 而不是先假设你只有一本个人账。 · 导入账单 银行或支付平台导出的 CSV、Excel、PDF 账单可以直接导入; 扫描件 PDF 和截图也能识别,识别在手机上完成,不上传。 一次最多 30 页,可以同时选几份排队导入;自动归到对应账户,重复的笔不会再记一遍。 · 对账 输入或截一张余额,把账户对准;每个账户都能看到每一段对平了没有、差在哪。 · 还款与贷款 信用卡还款、贷款还款计划、剩余本息。到期日一目了然。 · 资金转移 / 套现 卡与卡之间的挪动单独一类。它不是支出,也不是收入 —— 混进流水里会让你的收支表凭空多出一笔不存在的钱。 · 报表 四张卡:「我的钱」看全家能自由花的钱、这个月攒下多少、不挣钱能撑多久; 「店里的钱」只看标成店里的账户,看经营结果、钱有没有留在店里、最多还能拿多少; 「欠款和利息」看一共欠多少、这个月付了多少利息、照这样一年约付多少; 「三表」是资产负债表、收支表、现金流量表。 每个数都能点进去,查到它由哪几笔加出来;可以切换图和表,翻看往月。 · 经营现金流分类表 钱从哪来、到哪去,按品类摊开。点任意一类可以钻进去查证:它到底由哪些笔构成。 · 归类台 / 对手方确认 记久了品类会乱,归类台是批量收拾它的地方。 一笔转出到底算还款、算内部转移、还是算真支出,在对手方确认里一次说清 —— 口径定错,后面所有报表都跟着错。 · 备份与换机 可以导出整本加密备份,用你的密码或恢复码都能打开;换手机时从备份恢复即可。 备份文件写在 App 自己的文件夹里,你能在「文件」App 里看到并自行取走 —— 数据是你的,随时可以带走。 · 导出 报表每个月都能导出:本月流水 CSV 免费;PDF 报表与三张表 CSV 属一次买断。 导出走系统分享,App 不留副本。 · 加密 账本用 AES-256-GCM 静态加密,密钥由你的密码派生(PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256,20 万轮)。 忘记密码可用恢复码找回,恢复码也可以随时更换。 恢复码只在设置时显示一次,请务必自行保存。App 没有服务器,任何人都无法代你重置。 【免费与买断】 记账、账户、导入、对账、报表查看、流水导出与备份 —— 全部免费,永不设墙。 即使不买,账本也永远是你的:不锁定、不隐藏、不扣留。 一次买断解锁两件事:解除每日拍照/截图识别的次数上限;导出 PDF 报表与三张表 CSV。 一次买断,不是订阅;换手机用同一个 Apple 账户「恢复购买」即可。 【关于隐私】 这个 App 不收集任何数据。不是"我们承诺不滥用",而是它没有服务器可传 —— 除了内购的购买与恢复要经过 App Store,它不与任何服务器通信。 除了你主动拍照/选图识别账单时要用相册或相机,它不请求其他系统权限 —— 不要位置、不要通讯录、不要麦克风、不要日历。 图片只在你的手机上识别,不上传,也不会被保存进 App。

Screenshots

Helios4 screens
掌柜CFO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Helios at none against 掌柜CFO's 1. Helios also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 掌柜CFO's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. 掌柜CFO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Helios asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Helios ships an update every 2 weeks, 掌柜CFO every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Helios versus 掌柜CFO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelios掌柜CFO
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size261 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer上海甄汇信息科技有限公司潮波 阮

In-app purchases

None

Helios

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

掌柜CFO

One-time1
  • 掌柜CFO 专业版 · 一次买断$14.99

Questions

Is Helios free?
Helios is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 掌柜CFO free?
掌柜CFO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Helios or 掌柜CFO have ads?
Neither Helios nor 掌柜CFO shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Helios or 掌柜CFO?
Helios ships an update every 2 weeks, and 掌柜CFO every 2 days. Most recently, Helios was updated on October 26, 2026 and 掌柜CFO on October 25, 2026.

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