Comparison

TrialPad vs ALAJ App

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 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.

About

ALAJ App

Features
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The mission of the Alabama Association for Justice is to preserve and protect the constitutional right to a trial by jury guaranteed by the Seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution by ensuring that every person or business harmed or injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can hold wrongdoers accountable in the one room where everyone is equal – the courtroom. ​

Screenshots

TrialPad4 screens
ALAJ App3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ALAJ App at none against TrialPad's 2. ALAJ App also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). TrialPad's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TrialPad ships an update every 6 weeks, ALAJ App every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TrialPad versus ALAJ App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrialPadALAJ App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (379 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings379 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB75 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLIT SOFTWARE, LLCAlabama Association for Justice

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

ALAJ App

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

ALAJ App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is TrialPad free?
TrialPad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ALAJ App free?
ALAJ App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do TrialPad or ALAJ App have ads?
Neither TrialPad nor ALAJ App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrialPad or ALAJ App?
TrialPad ships an update every 6 weeks, and ALAJ App every 4 months. Most recently, TrialPad was updated on October 24, 2026 and ALAJ App on October 13, 2026.

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