There are at least two options that work with helm, google's skaffold (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold) and microsoft's draft (https://github.com/Azure/draft). The former supports helm along with kustomize and just plain old kubectl yaml files, draft seems to be tied to helm.

Personally I have used skaffold with success, and draft paniced on me so I stopped playing with it.

At Okteto we had similar issues so we built our own tool and open-sourced it as CND (https://github.com/okteto/cnd). Our approach is to be decoupled from how your pod is deployed so it works with Helm, CNAB, kubectl, etc…

Tilt can use helm! (Disclaimer: Tilt CEO here)

You can just call k8s_yaml(local('helm template <args>')). That tells Tilt to parse the yaml generated by running (locally) helm template. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to pair to try it.

there is also garden.io