Engage ESP vs Sona
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Engage ESP
This enterprise platform app connects employees to company resources, tools, and systems. It aims to improve operational effectiveness and employee experience by fostering communication, accessibility, enablement, recognition, and feedback.
- Digital gateway to systems and resources
- Enhances operational effectiveness
- Improves employee experience
- Supports five pillars of engagement
- API for system integration
- Single sign-on capability
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Delivered as a platform, consumed as an app, Engage is an enterprise solution designed to drive engagement success with your most valuable resource, your colleagues. Engage makes your smartphone the digital gateway to a catalogue of systems, tools and resources. All engineered to shape operational effectiveness and employee experience, keeping everyone connected, informed, supported, motivated and valued. Framed around our five pillars of engagement – communications, accessibility, enablement, recognition and feedback – Engage comes with a rich ‘starter pack’ of functions and tools that mirror those pillars. As a business, your workforce has the option to extend the platform at their own pace: our API layer offers seamless integration with other operational, HR and line of business systems, allowing for the creation of fully customised people platforms. With its single sign-on capability, the app becomes an effective ‘window on the working world’, bringing everything together in one place, accessible with one touch.
Sona
Access your upcoming work shifts and holiday schedule in real-time. Employees can also claim additional shifts directly through the app, putting them in control of their work availability.
- Real-time shift view
- Holiday schedule
- Claim additional shifts
- Employee control
- Shift management platform integration
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Sona gives employees whose employers use the Sona shift management platform, a realtime view of your upcoming shifts and holiday while allowing you to claim additional shifts as and when you want them. Sona puts you in control.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sona at every 6 days against Engage ESP's fortnightly. Sona also leads on review sentiment (21% vs 13%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Engage ESP ships an update fortnightly, Sona every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Engage ESP | Sona |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 1.0 (24 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 21.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 272 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Engage Solutions Group Ltd | Sona |
Customer experience
Engage ESP
Sona
In-app purchases
Engage ESP
No in-app purchases
Sona
No in-app purchases








