BlackBerry Work vs Smart Log On
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlackBerry Work
Manage your business email, calendar, and contacts securely in one app. View colleague photos, check availability, and navigate between apps easily. Protects personal privacy without intrusive location tracking.
- Unified inbox, calendar, and contacts
- Colleague directory photos and availability
- Launcher for easy app switching
- Quick action buttons for common tasks
- Contextual file actions
- VIP email notifications
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*** Contact your IT administrator for any help with setting up BlackBerry Work *** Take care of business simply, elegantly and securely with BlackBerry Work. Stay on top of your business email, schedule and join meetings, and manage your contacts with an easy to use, all-in-one app. BlackBerry Work delivers a personalized business experience. See your colleagues’ photos in your email. View online availability to chat everywhere you work - in email, a calendar event and on their contact card – a capability unique to BlackBerry. Quickly navigate among your business apps using Launcher. Switch easily between composing an email, adding a contact, or scheduling a calendar event with quick action buttons. And always know that your personal privacy is protected without intrusive geo-location capabilities. Simple app navigation: • Launcher: Simplify multi-tasking and app navigation with easy switching between your email, calendar, contacts, app settings and other BlackBerry apps. • Quick actions: Work smarter with quick action buttons to compose an email, schedule a meeting or add a contact. • Contextual file actions: Choose the right actions for your documents – edit, annotate, save, print, sign, etc. based on the other BlackBerry-secured apps installed on your device Improve productivity: • Email: Manage your inbox on the go! Check and respond to email, move messages to a folder, and take and attach photos. • Calendar: Stay in touch with your colleagues, customers and partners wherever you are. Join meetings or schedule new ones. Even send a quick reply message if you are running late. • Contacts: See all of your Outlook contacts, personal and work. Add additional information to the contact card or get the caller ID by sync’ing the contacts to the device. Personalize your experience: • Directory Photos: Your inbox, calendar and contacts now displays photos from your global address list so you can now enjoy more effective social interactions • People centric collaboration: Choose the best way to reach your colleagues based on their online availability status. Initiate a call, an email, an IM or an SMS from within the app them based on their availability. Quick notifications: • Badges: See how many unread email you have right on your device home screen without opening the app. . • VIP notifications: Never miss an important message. Set VIP status for key contacts to be notified via custom alerts when they send you an email.
Smart Log On
Securely log in to accounts without passwords using behavioral modeling and multi-factor authentication. Authorize requests in real-time from your registered device, with an offline option for authentication.
- Passwordless login
- Behavioral modeling
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Real-time authorization
- Offline authentication option
- Risk-based authentication
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Experience the passwordless identity authentication for log-ons using the Smart Log On. It uses behavioral modeling and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA), adding extra security to authorize each authentication request in real-time through the registered device. With the TOTP option, you can authenticate eligible device even when it’s offline. Smart Log On analyzes each log-on and/or transaction using the risk based Cognitive Continuous Authentication™ platform, giving the added control and identity protection. Smart Log On works with multi-factor intelligence platform provided by SecureAuth Corporation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Smart Log On at 3.0 against BlackBerry Work's 1.7. BlackBerry Work's advantage is ratings volume (641 vs 26). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
Smart Log On holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BlackBerry Work has 641 ratings behind it against 26, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 9% of BlackBerry Work's written reviews are positive against 17% of Smart Log On's.
BlackBerry Work ships an update every 2 months, Smart Log On monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlackBerry Work | Smart Log On |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (641 ratings) | 3.0 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | 16.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BlackBerry Corporation | Acceptto Corporation |
Customer experience
BlackBerry Work
Smart Log On
Bugs and requests
BlackBerry Work
Reported bugs
4 issues- Notifications not working consistently
- Emails not syncing or loading properly
- App freezing and crashing on launch
- Compatibility issues with iOS updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add custom filters and swipe gestures
- Improve notification reliability
- Integrate with more productivity apps
- Implement Face ID/Touch ID support
Smart Log On
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BlackBerry Work
No in-app purchases
Smart Log On
No in-app purchases
Questions
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