TicketShield+ vs Helm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TicketShield+
This app facilitates a secure, closed-loop ticket validation system for businesses. It helps prevent ticket fraud and eliminates duplicate payouts by ensuring easy and efficient ticket verification within a local network.
- Closed-loop ticket validation
- Ticket fraud prevention
- Eliminates double payouts
- Easy ticket verification
- LAN-only operation
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This App works within the Pace-O-Matic ecosystem to provide a closed loop ticket validation system. TicketShield+ is the LAN-only version of TicketShield, and requires the appropriate version of TicketForwarder to run properly. Only use this app if you are running the latest version of TicketForwarder. Contact support for more information. Protect Your Business. Stop Ticket Fraud. Eliminate Double Payouts. Easy Ticket Verification.
Helm
Streamline your business operations by managing orders, invoices, and accounting in one place. This app automates pricing, discounts, and tax calculations, allowing for offline work and private data storage. It simplifies the entire process from creating orders to generating reports for tax filing.
- Offline operation
- Automated pricing and discounts
- Invoice generation
- Accounting and tax reports
- Data export (JSON/CSV)
- Advanced search filtering
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Helm requires a paid subscription. Once subscribed, save time on ordering, invoicing, instructing, and accounting. Work completely offline. Keep data private! - Ordering: create an order for multiple customers with products from multiple wholesalers. - Invoicing: create an invoice for the customer useful for instructions, and create invoices for every wholesaler with a click. - Accounting: Generate monthly and yearly reports for tax filing. Automatically apply discounts, shipping, and sales tax to orders. Automatically calculate wholesale and retail pricing. You no longer need to duplicate work between ordering, invoicing, instructing, and accounting! Additional features: - Validate addresses - Provide shipping discounts - Provide product discounts - Calculate wholesaler shipping prices - Calculate retail product prices - Edit HTML invoices with instructions - Email HTML invoices to customers and wholesalers - Export data as JSON or CSV - Import JSON data - Easily find orders, customers, products, and businesses with advanced search filtering For more details, visit: https://www.ordrop.com/helm Marketing Video: https://youtu.be/UxZXl_44bKo Quickstart Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi2AfUIhxmfHmVJZlknBC27HonIQVsa5- All Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi2AfUIhxmfF_tc0FGQnohDzij4NSNCia End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms & Conditions: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/fcbaeb2c-d77d-4759-ba3d-b86c81808583 Privacy Policy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/23bd9ff2-42bd-4f3c-8510-fdf915f09860
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TicketShield+ at none against Helm's 1. TicketShield+ also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.0). Helm's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 14 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Helm sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. TicketShield+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TicketShield+ against 5.0 for Helm. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
TicketShield+ ships an update every 14 months, Helm every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TicketShield+ | Helm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 14 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pace-O-Matic, Inc. | ordrop, LLC |
Customer experience
TicketShield+
Helm
In-app purchases
TicketShield+
No in-app purchases
Helm
- Full Access1 Month trial$9.991 Month
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