Comparison

TrialPad vs Deposition Timer

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

Deposition Timer

Features
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Control the Clock. Protect Your Trial Record. Deposition Timer is the definitive, offline-only iPad and iPhone utility built exclusively for trial lawyers, litigators, and paralegals. Purpose-engineered around the FRCP 30 7-Hour Rule, this litigation stopwatch ensures you never lose track of on-the-record time, never miss a waivable objection, and always walk away with an immutable, court-ready export. --- WHY DEPOSITION TIMER EXISTS --- Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 30(d)(1) limits most depositions to one 7-hour day. Violate that limit and you risk motions, sanctions, and a blown trial record. Paper timesheets get lost. Generic stopwatch apps do not understand deposition mechanics. Deposition Timer was built by lawyers, for lawyers, to solve exactly this problem. --- TRIPLE-CLOCK TRACKING --- Deposition Timer runs three independent litigation stopwatch timers simultaneously: - Total On-Record Clock: tracks cumulative elapsed deposition time against the FRCP 30 7-hour limit with color-coded urgency alerts at 6h, 6h30m, and 6h50m. - Examining Counsel Clock: isolates actual testimony time, excluding all interruptions. - Opposing Counsel Objection Clock: accumulates time consumed by speaking objections, giving documented proof to demand time extensions under FRCP 30(d)(1). --- DEPOSITION OBJECTION LOG --- Log waivable evidentiary objections in under one second using Expo-Haptics blind-logging - no need to look at the screen. Supported objection types: Form, Foundation, Hearsay, Speculation, Compound, Assumes Facts Not in Evidence, Calls for Legal Conclusion. Every logged objection is timestamped to the millisecond and tied to the active triple-clock state, creating a synchronized attorney work product record ready for transcript correlation. --- ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGE PROTECTED --- Deposition Timer is built on a strict privacy-first architecture: - 100% Offline - zero network requests, ever - Zero Cloud Sync - case data never leaves the device - AES Encryption - all case profiles and objection logs are encrypted at rest - No Account Required - no login, no email, no tracking - No Analytics SDKs - your deposition strategy is your attorney work product --- IMMUTABLE EXPORT FOR COURT REPORTERS --- At the conclusion of any deposition, generate a SHA-256 signed PDF or CSV export containing the full triple-clock timeline, objection log with millisecond timestamps, case metadata header, and a cryptographic hash for chain-of-custody integrity. --- DESIGNED FOR THE COURTROOM --- - Large-tap interface engineered for use under deposition pressure - Dark mode optimized for dim deposition rooms - Split-screen compatible for iPad multitasking alongside your PDF viewer - VoiceOver accessible for ADA compliance - Runs entirely on-device - no Wi-Fi, no cellular required --- PRICING --- Free to use for your first complete deposition. A single, one-time lifetime unlock is available for unlimited cases. No SaaS fees. No subscriptions. One payment. Every deposition. For the life of your practice.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Deposition Timer at every 4 days against TrialPad's every 6 weeks. Deposition Timer also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Deposition Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TrialPad ships an update every 6 weeks, Deposition Timer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
TrialPad versus Deposition Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrialPadDeposition Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (378 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings378 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPad, MaciPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLIT SOFTWARE, LLCAman Mishra

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

Deposition Timer

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
1 purchases

Deposition Timer

One-time1
  • Deposition Timer Pro - Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is TrialPad free?
TrialPad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deposition Timer free?
Deposition Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TrialPad or Deposition Timer have ads?
Neither TrialPad nor Deposition Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, TrialPad or Deposition Timer?
TrialPad ships an update every 6 weeks, and Deposition Timer every 4 days. Most recently, TrialPad was updated on October 11, 2026 and Deposition Timer on September 28, 2026.

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