Comparison

ARC vs Cme

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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

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.

Highlights
  • Order management
  • Delivery tracking
  • Barcode scanning
  • Automatic status updates
  • Mobile workflow support
Features
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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.

Screenshots

ARC4 screens
Cme4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ARC versus Cme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterARCCme
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEntegral UKCentiro Solutions AB

Customer experience

ARC

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cme

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

ARC

No in-app purchases

None

Cme

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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