Comparison

Helm vs Sprout Affiliate

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Offline operation
  • Automated pricing and discounts
  • Invoice generation
  • Accounting and tax reports
  • Data export (JSON/CSV)
  • Advanced search filtering
Features
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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

About

Sprout Affiliate

Manage your affiliate program or track your earnings as a creator. Store owners can oversee affiliates, approve orders, and manage payouts. Affiliates can monitor their performance, share links, and receive instant notifications on sales.

Highlights
  • Affiliate management for store owners
  • Earnings tracking for creators
  • Order approval and payout management
  • Referral link and discount code customization
  • Real-time sales notifications
  • Direct messaging with stores
Features
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Sprout Affiliate is the companion app for stores that run their affiliate program with Sprout Affiliate, and for the affiliates and creators who promote them. FOR STORE OWNERS Sign in from your Shopify admin with one tap. See every affiliate and what they are owed, approve applications and referral orders, run and undo payouts, edit programs, message affiliates, and change store settings. A home-screen widget keeps pending, to pay, and paid in sight. See what you have earned, share your link, and hear about a sale the moment it happens. EARNINGS AT A GLANCE Pending, approved, and paid totals, straight from the store's own numbers. YOUR LINK AND YOUR CODE Copy or share your referral link anywhere, edit your discount code, build a link to any product in the store, and request your own custom link ending. EVERY REFERRED ORDER Each referral with its date, products, commission, and status, so you always know what is still clearing and what is ready to be paid. PAYOUTS Your payout history batch by batch, with invoices, and a place to set how you get paid: PayPal, Venmo, bank transfer, check, or store credit, depending on what the store offers. MESSAGES Talk to the store directly, and see offers from other stores that invite you to their programs. NOTIFICATIONS A push notification the moment a referred order is credited to you. Sprout Affiliate is free. You need an affiliate account with a store that runs a Sprout Affiliate program; you join through that store's affiliate signup page, then sign in here.

Screenshots

Helm4 screens
Sprout Affiliate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sprout Affiliate at none against Helm's 1. Sprout Affiliate also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Helm sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Sprout Affiliate asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Helm against 5.0 for Sprout Affiliate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Helm ships an update every 6 weeks, Sprout Affiliate every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Helm versus Sprout Affiliate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelmSprout Affiliate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerordrop, LLCO10 Media LLC

Customer experience

Helm

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sprout Affiliate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Helm

Subscriptions1
  • Full Access1 Month trial$9.991 Month
None

Sprout Affiliate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Helm free?
Helm is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sprout Affiliate free?
Sprout Affiliate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Helm or Sprout Affiliate?
Helm and Sprout Affiliate are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Helm or Sprout Affiliate have ads?
Helm shows ads; Sprout Affiliate does not.
Which is updated more often, Helm or Sprout Affiliate?
Helm ships an update every 6 weeks, and Sprout Affiliate every 2 days. Most recently, Helm was updated on October 13, 2026 and Sprout Affiliate on October 20, 2026.

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