BlackBerry Work vs SecurePIM
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.
SecurePIM
This app provides a secure, all-in-one mobile workspace for organizations. It combines essential business tools like email, messenger, calendar, and document access within an encrypted container, ensuring data privacy and compliance with regulations like GDPR.
- Encrypted email with S/MIME
- Secure messenger with video calls
- Integrated calendar and task management
- Secure document access and browser
- Centralized app configuration
- GDPR compliant mobile working
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SecurePIM – Secure mobile work for authorities and organizations. Make use of all the essential business features securely combined into one single app: emails, messenger, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, web browser, documents, and camera. Intuitive usability meets the highest security – all "made in Germany". *** The ideal corporate security solution for COPE and BYOD: With SecurePIM, employees can use their mobile devices in both business and private environments. All corporate data is encrypted and stored in the so-called secure container separated from private data. With SecurePIM, you meet all the requirements of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with regard to mobile working. Infrastructure: - Central app configuration and administration with SecurePIM Management Portal, e.g., allowed and blocked domain lists, file upload, Touch ID/Face ID - Administration also possible via MDM solutions (e.g., MobileIron, Workspace ONE) - MS Exchange (Outlook), HCL Domino (Notes), and HCL Traveler support (Notes) - Integration of existing public key infrastructures (PKI) and document management systems (e.g., SharePoint) as well as Active Directory (AD) integration - Full-screen mode for external displays with Stage Manager *** Home: - Always stay up to date: plan and organize your day with the Home module - Choose yourself which information you’d like to see immediately when starting the app, e.g., unread emails, upcoming events and the time left until the next meeting Email: - Automatically sign and encrypt sent and received emails according to the S/MIME encryption standard - Make full use of all common email features - Manage up to 3 email accounts with S/MIME encryption in one single app - Scan documents and add them directly to an email Team Mails: - Add Team Mailboxes as well as Delegate Mailboxes - Use public folders to access information - Write and manage emails securely in SecurePIM - Navigate in the folder structure - Use filter and search options Messenger: - Securely share and exchange information in single and group chats - Have audio and video conferences via channels - Mention someone in a chat - Send voice messages - Make audio and video calls - Share your (live) location - Share pictures and documents - Create a backup to transfer your contents to another device Calendar: - Easily manage your appointments - Schedule meetings and invite participants - Display your private appointments from your device's calendar and other email accounts - Add public folder calendars with read-only access Contacts: - Easily manage your business contacts - Access your global address book - Create, edit and delete shared contacts and contacts for public folders - Benefit from caller identification – thanks to CallKit integration without having to export contacts - Stay on the safe side: other messenger apps (WhatsApp, Facebook, etc.) can’t access contact details in SecurePIM Documents: - Securely access data on your fileshare (e.g., via MS SharePoint) - Securely store confidential documents and attachments (like contracts and reports) - Open and edit documents - Send documents encrypted - Add notes and comments to PDF documents - Edit MS Office documents as you would on the desktop - Scan printed or handwritten documents with up to 30 pages Browser: - Surf securely in SecurePIM Browser - Access intranet sites - Use common browser features, such as opening multiple tabs, (corporate) bookmarks, desktop mode - Use VDI access (e.g. via Citrix) on iPads Camera: - Take photos and store them encrypted in the Documents module - Send photos encrypted with the SecurePIM Email module *** Curious about SecurePIM? Visit our website to learn more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: BlackBerry Work at 641 against SecurePIM's 8. BlackBerry Work also leads on rating (1.7 vs 1.4) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). SecurePIM's advantage is review sentiment (32% vs 9%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
BlackBerry Work holds the better App Store score, 1.7 against 1.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BlackBerry Work has 641 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 9% of BlackBerry Work's written reviews are positive against 32% of SecurePIM's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlackBerry Work | SecurePIM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (641 ratings) — better | 1.4 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 8.9% of reviews | 32.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 641 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 101 MB | 305 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BlackBerry Corporation | virtual solution AG |
Customer experience
BlackBerry Work
SecurePIM
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
SecurePIM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BlackBerry Work
No in-app purchases
SecurePIM
No in-app purchases
Questions
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