Comparison

Sahel vs CAFM IMS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sahel

This app provides a unified platform for accessing various government e-services. Citizens and residents can easily perform transactions, receive notifications, and book appointments with government agencies. It aims to simplify government processes and enhance the digital experience for users.

Highlights
  • Access government e-services
  • Perform government transactions
  • Receive government notifications
  • Book government appointments
  • View government announcements
  • Check personal data status
Features
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"Sahel" App is a Unified Government Application for e-services for various government agencies. Through this application, the citizen and resident can perform their services and transactions easily, quickly, and effectively according to the highest quality standards, to provide a new experience to accomplish government transactions. The App provides an integrated platform for citizens and residents to receive notifications and announcements from all government agencies, gain access to all government services, and contributes to improving the provision of services electronically. Services provided by "Sahel" App: • Data: Enables identifying the status of the relationship for (citizen/resident) with the government through official documents, status, and expiry dates. • Services: Allows applying for services provided by government agencies to the public. • Notifications: Provides alerts and reminders from government agencies to the public that shows the status of the service provided. • Appointments: Can book government appointments via the META central platform. • Announcements: Single window to present government agencies announcements, through which they highlight their services, news, and other information for citizens and residents. App main objectives: • Allow for quick and improved services of government agencies • Simplify government processes and make it easier for citizens and residents to complete government transactions • Reduce the number of auditors required in government agencies and institutions • Facilitate conducting government transactions through electronic applications • Connect services of all government agencies and institutions through a single application • Save time and costs for citizens and residents to complete their government transactions • Eliminate bureaucracy and reduce paperwork • Promote integrity and transparency through digital transformation • Be the starting point in achieving digital transformation in the State of Kuwait

About

CAFM IMS

This application streamlines maintenance workflows for various industries. It allows for easy creation and management of work orders, preventative maintenance schedules, and asset tracking. Features include QR code scanning, reporting, and a work request portal with image uploads.

Highlights
  • Work Orders
  • Preventative Maintenance
  • Asset Management
  • QRcode Scanning
  • Reporting
  • Work Request Portal
Features
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Facility Management Application: CAFM IMS The maintenance industry needed an easy to use, quick to setup CAFM system that most importunately required little to no training. The creators of CAFM IMS set out to make a simply yet powerful maintenance management application that anyone can use. CAFM IMS is a web based designed to help you and your maintenance technicians perform the right maintenance work at the right time as easily as possible. CAFM IMS contains the following features: • Work Orders • Preventative Maintenance • Work Control and Maintenance Management • Work Request Portal with pictures • Asset Management • QRcode scanning • Parts Management • Asset Diagnostics • Dashboards • Reporting • Automatic CAFM backups CAFM IMS suite of features allows almost any industry to setup and manage their maintenance workflow within a matter of days and not months. If you are in any of the following industries CAFM IMS can help: • Facilities • Manufacturing • Equipment • School • City • Hospitality • Property • Building • Restaurants • Church • Non-Profits • Fleet • Agriculture • Gym • Linear Asset Management • And more -- Frequently Asked Questions -- Q: How should I use the mobile app? A: The mobile app is designed to make starting work orders, completing work orders, reporting problems and looking up assets by barcodes easy to do for maintenance technicians. When initially planning what assets are to be tracked and what preventative maintenance should be done our customers find using the desktop web application results in a faster and easier implementation. Q: Should my maintenance technicians use the web app? A: No. The CAFM IMS mobile app is specifically designed to make your maintenance technician workflow easier. Q: What platforms does CAFM run on? A: CAFM IMS can run on any Smartphone or Tablet device.CAFM IMS also runs on any browser.

Screenshots

Sahel4 screens
CAFM IMS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CAFM IMS at weekly against Sahel's every 2 months. Sahel's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Sahel against 4.0 for CAFM IMS. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sahel has 1.4K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sahel ships an update every 2 months, CAFM IMS weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sahel versus CAFM IMS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSahelCAFM IMS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (1.4K ratings)4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB115 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPublic Authority For Civil Information (PACI - Kuwait)ehab esawe

Customer experience

Sahel

All ratings1,346 ratings
Positive72.1%
Neutral4.5%
Negative23.4%
Written reviews175 reviews
Positive31.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative54.3%

CAFM IMS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Sahel

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App freezes during use
  • Incorrect information display
  • Login and registration issues
  • Notification system not working

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add English language option
  • Integrate with more government services
  • Improve notification system
  • Allow cancellation of requests

CAFM IMS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Sahel

No in-app purchases

None

CAFM IMS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sahel free?
Sahel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CAFM IMS free?
CAFM IMS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sahel or CAFM IMS?
CAFM IMS is rated higher. Sahel averages 3.9 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while CAFM IMS averages 4.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Sahel or CAFM IMS have ads?
Neither Sahel nor CAFM IMS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sahel or CAFM IMS?
Sahel ships an update every 2 months, and CAFM IMS weekly. Most recently, Sahel was updated on November 3, 2026 and CAFM IMS on October 30, 2026.

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