Comparison

ARC vs cap hpi appraisal

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

Head to head
About

ARC

Manage your automotive repair business operations from your mobile device. Track employee productivity, workshop jobs, and vehicle collections/deliveries with features like digital signatures and photo uploads. Stay organized with reminders and quick image capture.

Highlights
  • Productive time tracking
  • Workshop job management
  • Vehicle collection/delivery with digital signatures
  • Image and comment addition
  • Reminder management with push notifications
  • Quick photo capture for jobs
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ARC-AiDE is the mobile device portal into E.M.A. Computer Solutions popular range of Bodyshop and Business Manager application packages. Bodyshop control from the palm of your hand, with many useful functions designed to make you mobile in the business. Productive Control: Clock productives on and off jobs, assign jobs to a productive and create supplementary requests. Clock on site or job, view the status of all users at-a-glance including which productives are running low on time on their assigned job stage, productives on holiday or absent and productives who are on site but have no revenue work. View repair methods related to the job the productive is clocked on to. Workshop Control: View and change the job stage information, customer and vehicle details, add reminders, request due out date changes, add images and comments, view parts and supplementary request status. Set jobs as ready and valeted. Vehicle Collection/Delivery: Paperless signnature device, collection and delivery of customer vehicles and courtesy cars. Assign collection/delivery jobs via the diary, each driver collects their list of jobs to complete on the app by syncing the collection/delivery list whilst on site, and can complete the documentation at destination. Courtesy Car documentation can be sent direct from the device to the customers email address. Add Damage Diagrams, notes and photos and upload these via wireless sync when the driver returns to the bodyshop. Call the customer direct from the app or view the collection location on a map. Reminders: Manage your reminders while on-site. Push notifications while you are logged in will alert you to any new reminders sent to you. Action, reply to and create reminders. QuickPic The easy way to get images from the workshop to the job. Simply select the job from a list and take as many pictures as you like.

About

cap hpi appraisal

Features
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** Recommended to be used on iPads operating on iOS 15 or above ** Improve efficiency and increase accuracy of your vehicle appraisal process - powered by the data experts at cap hpi. โ€ข Enter a registration or VIN to get real time, up-to-date vehicle details from cap hpi. โ€ข A visual and intuitive interface to track vehicle condition, options and other details. โ€ข Accurately capture any damage with annotated photographs and notes. โ€ข Access to cap hpi data and grading to support the final vehicle valuation. Note: This is a trade app and access will require a pre-existing account with cap hpi.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: ARC at 3 against cap hpi appraisal's 1. ARC also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
ARC versus cap hpi appraisal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterARCcap hpi appraisal
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPad
Requires iOS11.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size24 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEntegral UKHPI ltd

In-app purchases

None

ARC

No in-app purchases

None

cap hpi appraisal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ARC free?
ARC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is cap hpi appraisal free?
cap hpi appraisal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ARC or cap hpi appraisal have ads?
Neither ARC nor cap hpi appraisal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ARC or cap hpi appraisal?
ARC ships an update every 6 weeks, and cap hpi appraisal every 6 weeks. Most recently, ARC was updated on November 1, 2026 and cap hpi appraisal on November 2, 2026.

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