Comparison

Fast Retail vs Extra Helper

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

Head to head
About

Fast Retail

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Fast Retail — your shop in your pocket. Fast Retail is an offline-first point-of-sale and inventory companion built for retail counters, restaurants, and service businesses. Ring up sales, manage your catalog, print receipts, and track every shift — even when the network drops. The app keeps working on local storage and syncs automatically the moment you're back online, so you never lose a sale. Point of sale • Fast, tap-to-add register with a live cart • Scan barcodes with the camera to add or look up items • Item modifiers, per-line and order-level discounts, and taxes • Assign customers and salespeople to a sale • Split payment across multiple methods on a single sale • Refund or void completed sales with a clear audit trail Open tickets & restaurant mode • Save, name, move, assign, and split tickets across the counter • Dining options and table/floor layout for dine-in service • Route order tickets to kitchen/prep printers Printing & customer display • Print receipts and order tickets to thermal (ESC/POS) printers • Graphic-mode raster printing renders crisply on any printer • Pair a second screen as a customer-facing display that mirrors the live cart Catalog management • Create and edit items with prices, SKUs, barcodes, and stock • Organize products into categories • Build reusable modifiers and option sets • Set up discounts and apply them at the register Receipts • Complete, searchable receipt history • Itemized receipt detail with taxes, discounts, and payments Shifts & cash management • Open and close shifts with starting and closing balances • Record expenses and cash movements during a shift • Review full shift history at any time Built for the real world • Offline-first: every screen loads instantly from on-device storage • Automatic background sync — your data stays consistent across devices • Run multiple stores and switch between them in a tap • PIN-protected actions for sensitive operations like discounts and settings • Optimized for both phones and tablets • Secure sign-in with encrypted credential storage Whether you're behind a single counter, running a busy kitchen, or managing multiple you a quick, reliable, and modern way to sell and manage your inventory — online or offline.

About

Extra Helper

Features
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ExtraHelper turns the phone in your pocket into a full restaurant terminal. Take an order at the table, send it straight to the kitchen, and settle the bill without walking back to a till. TAKE ORDERS WHERE THE GUEST IS Open a table, build the order from your live menu, and add custom items on the fly. Every change syncs to the rest of your team instantly, so the floor and the kitchen never fall out of step. KITCHEN TICKETS THAT ROUTE THEMSELVES Fire an order and each item lands at the right station: grill, bar, dessert. No shouting across the pass, no paper slips going missing. PRINT WITHOUT A CASH REGISTER Pair any Bluetooth thermal printer, or print over WiFi. Bills, kitchen tickets, and order slips, all reprintable the moment a guest asks. GET PAID FASTER Print a payment QR code right on the bill so guests can settle from their own phone. KEEP WORKING WHEN THE INTERNET DOESN'T Orders are saved on the device and sync the moment you are back online. A dropped connection never costs you a table. BUILT FOR A WHOLE FLOOR Owner, manager, and staff roles, each seeing what they need. Store room counts with barcode scanning, a manager log for the things worth writing down, and a dashboard showing what the shift actually did. ExtraHelper requires an ExtraHelper account, created for you by your restaurant.

Screenshots

Fast Retail4 screens
Extra Helper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Extra Helper at every 2 days against Fast Retail's weekly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fast Retail ships an update weekly, Extra Helper every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Fast Retail versus Extra Helper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFast RetailExtra Helper
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB28 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMajid MushtaqTarkeshwar Gurung

In-app purchases

None

Fast Retail

No in-app purchases

None

Extra Helper

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fast Retail free?
Fast Retail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Extra Helper free?
Extra Helper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fast Retail or Extra Helper have ads?
Neither Fast Retail nor Extra Helper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fast Retail or Extra Helper?
Fast Retail ships an update weekly, and Extra Helper every 2 days. Most recently, Fast Retail was updated on October 16, 2026 and Extra Helper on October 9, 2026.

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