Comparison

TrialPad vs FDCC365

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

TrialPad

This app empowers legal professionals to organize and present various forms of evidence, including documents, photos, and videos, directly from a tablet. It offers features like highlighting, annotation, side-by-side document comparison, and video editing for effective courtroom or remote presentations.

Highlights
  • Organize and present documents, photos, and videos
  • Highlight, annotate, and redact evidence
  • Side-by-side document comparison
  • Edit video clips and take snapshots
  • Wireless and HDMI presentation options
  • Search document text and file names
  • Add exhibit stickers and mark admitted documents
Features
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TrialPad is a full-featured courtroom presentation tool that allows lawyers and support staff to organize and present documents, photographs, video and audio files, and demonstrative evidence wirelessly in a courtroom or remote setting. Callout and highlight sections of documents, compare documents side by side, edit and show video clips, add exhibit stickers to documents, search document text, and much more. TrialPad can integrate with your Windows workflow, is powerful, easy to use, and a fraction of the cost of traditional or cloud based programs, all while being secure, private, mobile, and efficient. LIT SOFTWARE has set the bar for developing the best in litigation apps, garnering awards for innovation and ease of use. Our apps have been featured by Apple, and are loved by lawyers. —— LIT SUITE REVIEWS —— “The short review. Wow.” “TrialPad offers a full trial presentation system in a simple-to-use package at a fraction of the cost.” “These are incredibly sophisticated and useful apps that are in many ways more powerful than PC software costing hundreds of dollars more.” “For anybody doing any amount of trial work...TrialPad is a must have application.” “TrialPad is the perfect case organizer and presenter.” “TrialPad is one of the most complete and high tech presentation systems designed for lawyers and it is available right on your iPad [and Mac].” “TrialPad...is the industry leader.” —— QUICK FEATURE SUMMARY —— • Full electronic courtroom presentation capability, no cloud connection needed • Create callouts from documents, photographs, or transcripts • Highlight, annotate, redact, and zoom in on your evidence • Import documents directly from an email, USB drive, or cloud storage providers like Box, Citrix Files, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and many more • Present via HDMI to a TV or projector, or present wirelessly using an Apple TV • Add whiteboards and smoothly write or draw with Apple Pencil • Add bookmarks in long documents to jump to specific pages • Create presenter notes to help with your direct examination • Make key docs of pages from important documents with saved annotations • Search for a file name, or text within one document, a folder of documents, or the whole case • Add exhibit stickers to documents, with the ability to automatically increment numbers or letters • Mark documents as admitted so you know what can be presented without question • Create reports of all your evidence, presenter notes, or a presentation log with a date and time stamp • Edit video clips, or take snapshots of frames of video • Take snapshots of annotated documents with callouts to incorporate into motions • Organize your evidence into witness or issue folders • Add map images directly from Apple Maps • Import PDF files with bookmarks and retain those bookmarks in TrialPad • Import organized production sets from DocReviewPad • Import synced video depositions, reports, and impeachment slides from TranscriptPad • Share entire case files with other users using cloud storage or a USB drive • File formats supported: PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF, TXT, video and audio • Available for iPad and Mac —— EASILY ORGANIZE AND PRESENT EVIDENCE —— Easily import files from many cloud storage providers, from a USB drive, drag-and-drop, even AirDrop. Then plug-and-play via HDMI to present to a projector or TV, or present wirelessly using an Apple TV. Pre-annotate and organize evidence into witness or issue folders. Add exhibit stickers, and mark documents as admitted. Create highlights and annotations on-the-fly, zoom in on important areas, create multiple callouts on-the-fly, or compare two documents side-by-side. LIT SUITE SUBSCRIPTION One subscription gives you access to all LIT SUITE apps on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. After your 7-day free trial, your App Store account will be charged and your subscription will renew automatically unless canceled in advance. Manage your subscription in your App Store account settings.

About

FDCC365

This app facilitates engagement and access for members of a professional legal section. It allows for meeting registration, dues payment, and connection with fellow members, alongside access to podcasts.

Highlights
  • Meeting registration
  • Dues payment
  • Member networking
  • Podcast access
  • Membership information
Features
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From registering for a meeting, paying your dues, engaging with fellow Substantive Law Section members to listening to a podcast, the FDCC App is here for you, with easy access to all your fellow members and membership

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TrialPad at 4.5 against FDCC365's 3.6. TrialPad also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 5 months). FDCC365's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TrialPad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $600.00 per year. FDCC365 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TrialPad holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrialPad has 378 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of TrialPad's written reviews are positive against 69% of FDCC365's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TrialPad ships an update every 6 weeks, FDCC365 every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
TrialPad versus FDCC365: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrialPadFDCC365
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (378 ratings) — better3.6 (27 ratings)
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews69.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings378 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB55 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLIT SOFTWARE, LLCFederation of Defense & Corporate Counsel Inc

Customer experience

TrialPad

All ratings378 ratings
Positive89.2%
Neutral0.8%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral2.9%
Negative32.4%

FDCC365

All ratings27 ratings
Positive63.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.8%

Bugs and requests

TrialPad

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Crashes routinely
  • Freezes shortly after opening or use
  • Mac version is glitchy, especially when renaming documents
  • Error loading app info message when importing from Dropbox
  • App freezes when clicking Dropbox option to import
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  • Cannot import documents
  • Home Screen is gone

Requested features

6 requests
  • Allow multiple users to work on a presentation simultaneously
  • Ability to store files on OneDrive, SharePoint, or Dropbox
  • Extensive 'how-to' presentation with real-world case demos
  • Feature to export exhibits with exhibit number as prefix/filename
  • Ability to monitor cloud service folders for automatic syncing
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  • Mac OS version of the app

FDCC365

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

TrialPad

Subscriptions1
  • Access to all LIT SUITE apps7 Days trial2 variants$600.001 Year
None

FDCC365

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrialPad free?
TrialPad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FDCC365 free?
FDCC365 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, TrialPad or FDCC365?
TrialPad is rated higher. TrialPad averages 4.5 out of 5 from 378 ratings, while FDCC365 averages 3.6 from 27 ratings.
Do TrialPad or FDCC365 have ads?
FDCC365 shows ads; TrialPad does not.
Which is updated more often, TrialPad or FDCC365?
TrialPad ships an update every 6 weeks, and FDCC365 every 5 months. Most recently, TrialPad was updated on September 24, 2026 and FDCC365 on September 9, 2026.

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