cove vs Arbor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
cove
This app serves as a digital key to your building, offering access to events, fitness classes, and amenity bookings. It aims to enhance your daily experience at home or work by connecting you to your space.
- Event discovery and sign-ups
- Fitness class registration
- Book building amenities
- Digital building passport
- Enhance home and work experience
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The cove app is a passport to your building. It unlocks everything special about where you work or live. The app allows you to see upcoming events, sign up for fitness classes, book your building’s amenities like gyms and meeting rooms, and much more. ABOUT COVE Our mission at cove is to enable people to thrive, whether that’s at home or at work. From getting groceries delivered to your door to working remotely more and more, work and life doesn’t look the same as it did yesterday. That’s where we come in. We’re reimagining what your daily experience at work and at home looks like today and in the future. From our intimate co-working spaces or our private company HQs to our work with office buildings and residential communities, we’re changing the way people interact with the spaces around them.
Arbor
This app serves as a digital key to an urban organic workplace, offering access to building amenities, event schedules, and local benefits. It facilitates booking meeting rooms, managing visitor access, and discovering community perks.
- View upcoming events
- Book amenities like meeting rooms
- Manage visitor access
- Discover local perks
- Building community features
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Welcome to Arbor - an urban organic workplace built to foster community and inspire your most creative work. The Arbor app is your passport to the building and everything it has to offer. The app allows you to see upcoming events, book amenities like meeting rooms, manage visitors, discover local perks, and much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Arbor at 4.0 against cove's 3.3. cove's advantage is ratings volume (34 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Arbor holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: cove has 34 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
cove ships an update fortnightly, Arbor every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | cove | Arbor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (34 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 170 MB | 172 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | cove | Arbor Tempe |
Customer experience
cove
Arbor
In-app purchases
cove
No in-app purchases
Arbor
No in-app purchases
