Sona vs Blue Arrow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sona
This app provides employees with real-time access to their upcoming work shifts and holiday schedules. It allows users to claim additional shifts as they become available, giving them greater control over their work. The platform is designed for employees whose employers utilize the Sona shift management system.
- Real-time shift view
- Holiday schedule access
- Claim additional shifts
- Employee control
- Shift management 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.
Blue Arrow
Connect with a vast talent community for temporary and permanent job opportunities across the UK. Discover roles in retail, logistics, hospitality, and public services, tailored to your skills and availability.
- Join UK's largest temporary talent community
- Discover job opportunities
- Search by skills and experience
- Find roles across various sectors
- Jobs available nationwide
- Temporary, fixed-term, and temp-to-perm roles
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Download the app and register to join Blue Arrow's talent community, one of the UK’s largest temporary workforces. Be the first to hear of latest and greatest job opportunities for the UK’s largest, smallest, oldest, fastest-growing, exciting and extraordinary names in retail, logistics, manufacturing, hospitality, leisure and public services including healthcare, education and local authorities. Access your Blue Arrow find a job service any time you want to. Search live opportunities matched to your skills and experience and be among the first people new job opportunities to suit your availability. A wide range of jobs on offer for temporary, fixed-term and temp-to-perm opportunities including with an immediate start as follows: • Warehouse Operatives • Pickers, packers • Production Assembly Operative • Head Chef • Chef • Commis Chef • Chef de Partie • Sous Chef • Relief Chef • Kitchen Porter • Kitchen Assistant • Barista • Bartenders • Waiters and Waitresses • Receptionists • Administrators • Personal Assistant • Call Centre Advisors • Customer Service Advisor • Delivery Van Driver • Forklift Truck Drivers • LGV Drivers • HGV Drivers including Class 1, Class 2, C+E, C1 and 7.5 tonne • Counterbalance Driver • Reach Truck Driver • Cleaners plus more. Jobs near you and across the UK including all major cities; London, Manchester, Leeds, Cardiff, Glasgow, Belfast, Liverpool, Birmingham, Southampton, Leicester, Brighton, Edinburgh, Coventry and more. Find your next job with Blue Arrow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Blue Arrow at 4.0 against Sona's 1.1. Sona's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (27 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Blue Arrow holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sona has 27 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 21% of Sona's written reviews are positive against 13% of Blue Arrow's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sona ships an update weekly, Blue Arrow every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.
| Parameter | Sona | Blue Arrow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.1 (27 ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.1% of reviews — better | 13.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sona | Blue Arrow |
Customer experience
Sona
Blue Arrow
In-app purchases
Sona
No in-app purchases
Blue Arrow
No in-app purchases







