ARC vs Cme
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Cme
Manage orders and deliveries efficiently with this mobile tool. Scan barcodes for automatic status updates, streamlining your workflow and reducing desktop reliance. It's an optimal solution for business order tracking.
- Order management
- Delivery tracking
- Barcode scanning
- Automatic status updates
- Mobile workflow support
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Cme allows you to manage your orders and deliveries in a secure and easy way. The mobile application supports a flexible way of working and eliminates the need for desktop interaction. The barcode of your orders and parcels can be easily scanned for automatic status updates. Cme is an optimal solution for order tracking, designed to meet your business needs.
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Verdict
ARC and Cme are too close to call on the numbers: across 7 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
ARC ships an update every 6 weeks, Cme every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ARC | Cme |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Entegral UK | Centiro Solutions AB |
Customer experience
ARC
Cme
In-app purchases
ARC
No in-app purchases
Cme
No in-app purchases








