Comparison

Lexis® vs TrialPad

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

Head to head
About

Lexis®

Conduct comprehensive legal research on your mobile device. Access critical legal documents, annotate them offline, and stay organized with remote access to saved files. Ensure your research is current with integrated tools for quick and efficient results.

Highlights
  • Offline document viewing and annotation
  • Instant alert viewing
  • Remote access to saved files
  • Quick access to research history
  • Shepard's® integration for 'good law'
  • Document delivery via email/PDF
Features
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Transform the way you conduct legal research on the go! Get your hands on the award-winning Lexis® mobile app that was identified by eWEEK and the Consumer Electronics Association as the only innovative mobile app designed to support job efficiency for lawyers! Access critical information with Lexis® right from your Apple iPhone® or iPad®. Whether you are in the courtroom or on your morning commute, conduct comprehensive research quickly to find relevant results. Please note you must have a current Lexis® subscription and valid ID/password to utilize this app. With the Lexis® app, you can: • View and annotate documents while offline with ability to sync changes! • View alerts instantly • Stay organized with remote access to saved files and folders • Access favorites, previous research results quickly and search within results • Ensure your research is “good law” with Shepard’s® • Browse Sources and access Table of Contents • Highlight and annotate text within documents • Deliver documents via email, wireless printing or one-click PDF options And much more! “The iPad app is invaluable. Being able to search efficiently from the iPad while in court, in meetings or traveling is fantastic, and the ability to save the important cases to folders is very important to me.”- Associate at Large Law Firm “I especially like the ability to conduct research through the app on my iPad which makes me efficient outside of the office.”- Partner at Large Law Firm. For full research functionality, please visit Lexis® on the web. LexisNexis, the Knowledge Burst logo, Lexis, Shepard’s are registered trademarks and Shepard’s Signal is a trademark of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used under license. Apple, iPad and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Please be sure to leave a review in the App Store for the Lexis® app. Tell us what you like and what you want to see in future releases.

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.

Screenshots

Lexis®4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TrialPad at 4.5 against Lexis®'s 3.8. TrialPad also leads on review sentiment (65% vs 23%) and ratings volume (378 vs 5). Lexis®'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TrialPad holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrialPad has 378 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of Lexis®'s written reviews are positive against 65% of TrialPad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lexis® ships an update every 2 months, TrialPad every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Lexis® versus TrialPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLexis®TrialPad
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (5 ratings)4.5 (378 ratings) — better
Positive reviews23.3% of reviews64.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5378 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad, Mac
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB60 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLexisNexisLIT SOFTWARE, LLC

Customer experience

Lexis®

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews60 reviews
Positive23.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative68.3%

TrialPad

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

User reviews

Lexis®

From 5 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Beneficial for viewing documents
  • 👍 Preferable to website for some
  • 👍 Gets the job done
  • 👍 Useful for basic needs
  • 👍 Works great for some users

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Lacks Lexis AI integration
  • 🐛 Inconsistent browser/app experience
  • 🐛 Difficult to filter results
  • 🐛 Search results inaccurate
  • 🐛 Table of contents cut off

TrialPad

From 378 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Effective and functional
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Powerful and intuitive
  • 💰 Great value for price
  • 💻 Works on Mac

Room to improve

  • 💸 High subscription price
  • 😠 Hostility toward users
  • 💰 Expensive for some users
  • 🔄 Discontinued support for older versions
  • 🖱️ Glitchy Mac version

Bugs and requests

Lexis®

Reported bugs

42 issues
  • Lexis AI documents show as 'out of plan'
  • Browser version pulls up old interface
  • Filter search to statutes yields cases
  • Table of contents titles cut off
  • App resets when multitasking
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  • App does not run effectively in background
  • App hangs on reset and requires re-login
  • App randomly kills tabs
  • App does not automatically drop cursor in search box
  • Suggestion bar replaces keyboard during typing
  • Crashes frequently
  • Freezes all the time
  • Highlighting fails and doesn't stay
  • Saving to folder takes too long
  • Internal navigation buttons make no sense
  • Session times out
  • Cannot find specific databases (e.g., person report)
  • App resets when switching between apps
  • Requires client selection again after reset
  • Search must be restarted after reset
  • Update broke the app
  • Constant errors in searching or opening cases
  • App does not display documents
  • App is missing some states in search parameters
  • App crashes when trying to email documents
  • App crashes upon opening
  • Cannot log in after updates
  • App not recognizing network connection
  • App does not communicate with servers
  • App asks to update after already updated
  • Cannot get past logon screen after update
  • App crashes immediately after logging in
  • App crashes whenever client number is selected
  • App shows 'no network' with full WiFi/cell signal
  • App crashes before it finishes starting up
  • App crashes every time it is opened on iPad
  • App is totally unresponsive
  • App crashes on iPad 2
  • App works on iPhone only
  • Error message 'Error occurred, please contact Lexis customer support' on search
  • Error message to contact customer service
  • App crashes when attempting to search a case

Requested features

30 requests
  • Integrate with browser interface seamlessly
  • Filter results from all appellate courts
  • Search all circuit courts without individual selection
  • Add more highlighter colors
  • Allow editing search terms after execution
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  • Improve navigation between content types
  • Make filters easier to locate
  • Automatically drop cursor in search box
  • Improve browsing code/regs via sections
  • Prevent multiple tabs on citation search
  • Prevent random tab killing
  • Improve search results filtering
  • Allow selecting next case without going back to results
  • Add search within document function
  • Add graphical Shepard's
  • Improve text formatting and layout
  • Add dark mode option
  • Add ability to change display font
  • Add line height and margin adjustments
  • Remember login information
  • Fix session timeouts
  • Improve multi-tasking stability
  • Allow saving to folders to work consistently
  • Make UI less obstructive
  • Improve filtering by date for secondary sources
  • Allow opening results in current tab
  • Improve app stability for email function
  • Fix update issues
  • Allow users to browse statutes via table of contents
  • Include all states in search parameters

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

In-app purchases

None

Lexis®

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TrialPad

Subscriptions1
  • Access to all LIT SUITE apps7 Days trial2 variants$600.001 Year

Questions

Is Lexis® free?
Lexis® is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TrialPad free?
TrialPad is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lexis® or TrialPad?
TrialPad is rated higher. Lexis® averages 3.8 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while TrialPad averages 4.5 from 378 ratings.
Do Lexis® or TrialPad have ads?
Neither Lexis® nor TrialPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lexis® or TrialPad?
Lexis® ships an update every 2 months, and TrialPad every 6 weeks. Most recently, Lexis® was updated on October 15, 2026 and TrialPad on October 11, 2026.

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