BlackBerry Work

BlackBerry Corporation

About this app

*** 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.

Improve productivity:
• Email: Manage your inbox on the go! Check and respond to email, securely view multiple-format attachments (.pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls, etc.), 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:
• 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.

Ratings and reviews

Not great but not quite as bad as other reviews made it seem. Overall app design is confusing and dated, does not align to modern app UI Standards. Also the notifications are very hit or miss, they just don't appear for calendar events sometimes without reopening the app. So don't count on this to remind you of your meetings. Definitely not as good as other mail/calendar apps, but not the end of the world if you're forced to use it by your company's draconian IT standards.

The concept of having access to work email and calendar without logging into my computer is fantastic. However, I keep having issues with this particular app, especially with the calendar. Sometimes an appointment doesn't appear on my calendar (it can happen whether or not I am the organizer). Sometimes a cancelled appointment still appears on my calendar, even if I have clicked to remove it from my calendar. There is a Refresh button on the calendar that seems to do absolutely nothing.

We use Good Work for our company. The client's user interface has improved a great deal in the last few years (especially with the transition from Good Enterprise). And I don't have the crash issues many users report. But the app seems to be a severe battery hog. GSam battery monitor and Battery Doctor both report it as regularly being my highest-draining app, and I can't find any way consistently to reduce it's background battery usage. My other email client, Inbox, doesn't register in the top 25 in term of battery drain, even though I use it far more frequently. Not even NFL Mobile could top Good's battery usage in the last 24 hours, and I watched nearly an entire game on it yesterday while checking my work mail maybe three times. When my phone runs out of charge before a day is done, I now know what to blame.

What's new

• The email detail, email compose, and meeting request email views have been redesigned.
• The hamburger menu in the email, calendar, and contacts modules has been redesigned with colors and updated icons.
• Users can use app shortcuts by long pressing the BlackBerry Work home screen icon.
• Users can edit existing, non-recurring MS Teams meetings, and use MS Teams as a source for presence.
• Users can receive notifications for folders outside of the inbox folder.