Helper: Home Staff & Pay

Festival bonus season? Helper auto-calculates the Diwali bonus, settles advances and shares a clean payslip — in your language. Free to start.

One ledger. Both sides agree.

Helper is the shared record of home work and home pay that the family AND the worker keep together — and reconcile. The maid, cook, driver, nanny, watchman or gardener and the household hold ONE ledger of days worked, salary, advances (udhaar), bonus and leave. The month-end argument over "how many days did you work?" and "how much is still owed?" simply ends, because both phones show the same number.

Helper is not a place to hire a maid, and not a tax-filing service. It is the honest system of record for the home-employment relationship itself — fair and dignified to both sides.

• ATTENDANCE IN SECONDS Mark present, absent, half-day, paid leave, overtime, or a week-off with one tap. The day is logged the moment it happens — never reconstructed from memory at the end of the month.

• SALARY, CALCULATED FOR YOU Helper does the math nobody wants to do. Net pay = base salary, minus unpaid days, plus overtime and festival bonus, minus advance repayment — computed automatically every pay cycle. Monthly, weekly or custom cycle. Any currency.

• ADVANCES (UDHAAR) THAT ADD UP Track every advance and every repayment as a running balance. No more "I gave you ₹2,000" / "no, ₹1,500 — I paid ₹500 back." The outstanding amount is always clear, and the repayment is deducted from salary for you.

• A CLEAN PAYSLIP TO SHARE Generate a tidy, bilingual payslip and share it on WhatsApp in one tap. The worker can issue a matching receipt acknowledging payment. Both sides keep proof.

• LINK & RECONCILE — THE PART NOBODY ELSE BUILT Scan a QR code once and two ledgers link. From then on, attendance and dues reconcile on both phones. Where other tools serve only the employer and treat the worker as a line item, Helper gives the worker their own record and their own voice — so what's owed is a shared fact, not a contested claim.

• FAIR TO BOTH SIDES Choose your role at first run — "I manage home staff" or "I work in homes" — and switch any time. A working professional who also employs a cook can hold both. The worker is always a first-class user, never an afterthought.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your household's data and your staff's data live on your own device. There is no company account, no profile, no behavioural tracking, no ad SDK. App Store privacy label: Data Not Collected. The only thing that ever crosses the wire is a thin, ephemeral handshake to link two phones — minimum data, defined lifecycle, aligned with India's DPDP Act and GDPR.

WORKS OFFLINE Mark attendance and read your dues with no signal. Helper is local-first and fast.

BILINGUAL Full English and Hindi at launch, with more Indian languages on the way. Built for India, useful anywhere people employ home staff.

FREE + PRO Helper is free to start — log attendance, track salary and advances, and share payslips. Helper Pro unlocks the full experience with weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly plans. Subscriptions are billed through your Apple ID; manage or cancel any time in Settings.

From iVUniverse — makers of the household suite. Quiet, private, dignified apps for the home.

A fair record. For both sides.

— HELPER PRO (OPTIONAL) Helper is free for your first staff member (one home, one worker). Helper Pro unlocks unlimited homes & staff, full history, payslips and export.

Subscription options (auto-renewable): Weekly, Monthly, 3 Months, Yearly. Prices are shown in the app and vary by region. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation. Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ivuniverse.com/privacy