Comparison

ARC vs ILG Forms

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

ILG Forms

Features
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- Build unlimited custom mobile forms and dispatch them to smartphone and tablet users in the field. - Receive data back, connect it to cloud services and generate powerful reports! - Significant cost savings guaranteed - Fully customisable forms and app - Create custom output documents easily - Mobilise your business today with ILG Business - Find out more at https://www.ilgbusiness.co.uk/ilgforms/

Screenshots

ARC4 screens
ILG Forms4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ARC at 11.0 against ILG Forms's 16.1. 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

ARC ships an update every 6 weeks, ILG Forms monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
ARC versus ILG Forms: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterARCILG Forms
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksMonthly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 โ€” better16.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size24 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEntegral UKILG Business Ltd

In-app purchases

None

ARC

No in-app purchases

None

ILG Forms

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ARC free?
ARC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ILG Forms free?
ILG Forms is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ARC or ILG Forms have ads?
Neither ARC nor ILG Forms shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ARC or ILG Forms?
ARC ships an update every 6 weeks, and ILG Forms monthly. Most recently, ARC was updated on November 1, 2026 and ILG Forms on October 24, 2026.

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