HelmOps vs Voly: 2026 Comparison
Voly is a finance-led yacht platform: accounting, APA and FX, prepaid Mastercard cards for APA and crew spending, real-time spend visibility, Voly Crew for payroll, leave, hours of rest and MLC-compliant employment agreements, Pinpoint Works for maintenance, and a registration and tonnage service under Voly Compliance. Prices are quoted. HelmOps is a smaller product for a captain-run yacht, with published prices and a 30-day trial without a card: expenses with receipt scanning and approvals, maintenance by running hours, crew certificates and MLC rest hours, and charter trips with a guest portal, in English and Turkish. Voly is stronger on money and crew employment; HelmOps is quicker to start.
Yacht finance, crew and technical management platform from the UK
Voly pricing and product availability checked as of October 2026.
Feature Comparison
We compared both platforms on expenses, maintenance, crew, compliance, mobile access and pricing. Voly facts come from voly.com and its App Store listing, checked on 14 October 2026.
| Criterion | HelmOps | Voly |
|---|---|---|
| Expenses and Cards | Receipt scanning, categories, approvals and a cash ledger, with expenses linked to trips. Currencies are EUR, USD, GBP and TRY. No payment cards. | ✓Accounting, APA and FX, with prepaid Mastercard cards for APA and crew spending and real-time visibility of spend. |
| Planned Maintenance | Hour meters with readings, running-hours service intervals, due-soon and overdue alerts to the owner and captain, and calendar due dates. | Pinpoint Works, a maintenance tool that the vendor says works without signal. |
| Crew | Crew certificate expiry reminders at 90, 60 and 30 days, and MLC hours-of-rest records. Contracts and other crew documents can be uploaded; no payroll. | Voly Crew covers employment agreements, payroll, leave, hours of rest with non-compliance alerts and stored contracts; certificate tracking is not mentioned. |
| Compliance | Vessel documents and crew certificates alert the owner and captain at 90, 60 and 30 days, and MLC rest hours are recorded with a PDF export. No ISM or SMS module, drill records or incident reporting. | Voly Compliance handles yacht registration, tonnage surveys and ownership transfers, mostly as a managed service; ISM is not mentioned. |
| Mobile and Offline | Web and iOS; no Android store app. Expenses with receipt photos, maintenance logs, tasks, trips and cash entries recorded without a signal are queued on the device and sent when the connection returns. Inventory, hour-meter readings and crew certificates need a connection, as do screens not opened before. | Web, plus an iOS and Android finance app. Pinpoint Works saves offline; no offline claim is made for the finance or crew apps. |
| Pricing and Trial | ✓HelmOps prices are published at https://helmops.com/en/pricing: $79, $99 or $249 per month, 20% less billed annually. Every plan includes every feature; tiers differ only by vessel, owner and crew limits. 30-day free trial, no credit card required. | Quoted on request; no trial is stated. |
Expenses and Cards
HelmOps
Receipt scanning, categories, approvals and a cash ledger, with expenses linked to trips. Currencies are EUR, USD, GBP and TRY. No payment cards.
Voly
Accounting, APA and FX, with prepaid Mastercard cards for APA and crew spending and real-time visibility of spend.
Planned Maintenance
HelmOps
Hour meters with readings, running-hours service intervals, due-soon and overdue alerts to the owner and captain, and calendar due dates.
Voly
Pinpoint Works, a maintenance tool that the vendor says works without signal.
Crew
HelmOps
Crew certificate expiry reminders at 90, 60 and 30 days, and MLC hours-of-rest records. Contracts and other crew documents can be uploaded; no payroll.
Voly
Voly Crew covers employment agreements, payroll, leave, hours of rest with non-compliance alerts and stored contracts; certificate tracking is not mentioned.
Compliance
HelmOps
Vessel documents and crew certificates alert the owner and captain at 90, 60 and 30 days, and MLC rest hours are recorded with a PDF export. No ISM or SMS module, drill records or incident reporting.
Voly
Voly Compliance handles yacht registration, tonnage surveys and ownership transfers, mostly as a managed service; ISM is not mentioned.
Mobile and Offline
HelmOps
Web and iOS; no Android store app. Expenses with receipt photos, maintenance logs, tasks, trips and cash entries recorded without a signal are queued on the device and sent when the connection returns. Inventory, hour-meter readings and crew certificates need a connection, as do screens not opened before.
Voly
Web, plus an iOS and Android finance app. Pinpoint Works saves offline; no offline claim is made for the finance or crew apps.
Pricing and Trial
HelmOps
HelmOps prices are published at https://helmops.com/en/pricing: $79, $99 or $249 per month, 20% less billed annually. Every plan includes every feature; tiers differ only by vessel, owner and crew limits. 30-day free trial, no credit card required.
Voly
Quoted on request; no trial is stated.
When Voly Is the Better Choice
Choose Voly when the owner or management company wants yacht accounting, APA and FX, prepaid cards for APA and crew, and crew payroll and employment agreements in one finance-led platform. HelmOps does not cover those.
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