TrialPad vs iOrion
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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TrialPad is the award-winning trial presentation app for iPad, iPhone, iPhone Duo, and Mac, all included with one LIT SUITE subscription. Organize your evidence, then present documents, photos, video, and audio wirelessly in the courtroom or a remote setting, from whichever device you have with you. Call out and highlight key passages, compare documents side by side, play and edit video clips, add exhibit stickers, and search every word of your case. TrialPad integrates 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. TrialPad was named “The Best Trial Presentation App” with an A+ TechnoScore by LitigationWorld. Since 2010, 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.” **** Core Features - iPad, iPhone, iPhone Duo, and Mac **** • Full electronic courtroom presentation, no cloud connection needed • Present via HDMI to a TV or projector, or wirelessly using an Apple TV • Create callouts you can resize with a pinch, recolor, and use to dim the rest of the page • Highlight, annotate, redact, and zoom in, or circle key areas with the Laser Trail tool • Split View shows two documents, two videos, or a video next to a document • Add auto-incrementing exhibit stickers and mark documents as admitted • Run your examination from presenter notes, with timestamps that jump to that moment in a video • Play, loop, and edit video clips, change playback speed, and capture still frames • Bookmark document pages and video timestamps • Create Key Docs from important pages or video segments, and draw on whiteboards • Search file names or full text across a document, a folder, or the whole case • Organize evidence into witness or issue folders, and swipe to mark Admitted, add a sticker, or export • Create reports of your evidence, presenter notes, or a time-stamped presentation log • Use War Room Mode to share your case with co-counsel and clients • Import from email, USB drive, AirDrop, ZIP files, or cloud storage providers like Box, Citrix Files, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and many more • Import production sets and videos from DocReviewPad, and synced video depositions, reports, and impeachment slides from TranscriptPad • Share entire case files using cloud storage or a USB drive • File formats supported: PDF, JPG, PNG, TIF, TXT, video and audio **** Optimized for iPhone and iPhone Duo - Your Entire Case in Your Pocket **** • Review and present your evidence anywhere, right from your iPhone • Unfold iPhone Duo for a larger view of documents and video, and write with Apple Pencil **** Optimized for iPad and Mac - Built for the Courtroom **** • Buttery smooth handwriting with Apple Pencil on iPad • Keyboard shortcuts and right-click menus on Mac LIT SUITE SUBSCRIPTION One subscription gives you access to all LIT SUITE apps on iPhone, iPhone Duo, 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.
iOrion
This app provides legal professionals with mobile access to their Orion software data. It simplifies timekeeping, client and case management, and expense submissions, helping to improve efficiency and financial oversight.
- Mobile timekeeping and billing
- Client and case information access
- Initiate calls and emails from contacts
- Task and appointment management
- Expense submission with receipt scanning
- Payment calendar access
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iOrion® is a complete financial management mobile application that allows legal professionals to access data from their Orion software using any recent-model iOS® device. iOrion provides a simpler, more efficient mobile timekeeping solution as well as access to critical information about clients, related contacts and cases. Emails and phone calls can be initiated from the legal professionals’ Client or favorite Matter when viewing a related contact. As with Orion’s desktop application, when the legal professional completes those activities, iOrion will automatically track the time and create a related fee. iOrion allows legal professionals to better manage their cases, keep more accurate account of their billable time and expenses, and stay on top of the firm’s bottom line. Highlights: Time Management – iOS versions of Orion’s “Time Entry”, “Smart Timers” and “Time Manager” Contact Management – All Contact related information is easily accessible including relationships to other Contacts and Matters, initiate phone calls/emails from within iOrion or even display driving directions. Matter Management – Organize information by Matter which allows for quick access to financial information while on-the-go Event Management – Quickly create and edit Tasks/Appointments and “To-Do” lists while automatically recording and billing for your time Payment Calendar – Real time access to payment information including multiple views and sorting capabilities Expense Reimbursement – Mobile submission of reimbursement requests, along with ability to scan receipts or other documents Requirements: iOrion for iOS is available for use in conjunction with Orion’s Financial Management software solution.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TrialPad at 4.5 against iOrion's 2.7. TrialPad also leads on ratings volume (379 vs 3). iOrion's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. TrialPad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $600.00 per year. iOrion asks for nothing beyond the download.
TrialPad holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrialPad has 379 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
TrialPad ships an update every 6 weeks, iOrion every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | TrialPad | iOrion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (379 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 379 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LIT SOFTWARE, LLC | Orion Law Management Systems Inc |
Customer experience
TrialPad
iOrion
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
iOrion
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
TrialPad
- Access to all LIT SUITE apps7 Days trial2 variants$600.001 Year
iOrion
No in-app purchases









