Case Notebook E vs TrialPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Case Notebook E
Review and annotate electronic witness testimony transcripts on your iPad or iPhone. Search for terms, add highlights and notes, and email annotated transcripts. Updates sync with desktop versions.
- Review E-Transcripts on iPad/iPhone
- Search transcripts with Word Index
- Receive transcripts via email, Dropbox, iTunes
- Add electronic highlighting and notes
- Email annotated transcripts
- Sync notes with desktop version
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Portable E-Transcript is a professional grade application available for your iPad® or iPhone®.You can review and annotate E-Transcripts anytime, anywhere – all you need is an iPad or iPhone to begin using your E-Transcript electronic witness testimony transcripts on the go. Portable E-Transcript features: • Works on your iPad and iPhone • Word Index helps you search and find terms within your E-Transcript • Receive E-Transcript format (PTX) via email, Dropbox, and iTunes® • Ability to add electronic highlighting and notes • Email a transcript with highlighting and notes from iPad or iPhone • Update the transcript in the desktop version of Westlaw Case Notebook to include the highlighting and notes added in the app"
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 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TrialPad at 65% against Case Notebook E's 13%. TrialPad also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.8) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 6 months). Case Notebook E's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. TrialPad sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $600.00 per year. Case Notebook E asks for nothing beyond the download.
TrialPad holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TrialPad has 378 ratings behind it against 39, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Case Notebook E's written reviews are positive against 65% of TrialPad's.
Case Notebook E ships an update every 6 months, TrialPad every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 29, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Case Notebook E | TrialPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (39 ratings) | 4.5 (378 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.8% of reviews | 64.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 378 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomson Reuters | LIT SOFTWARE, LLC |
Customer experience
Case Notebook E
TrialPad
Bugs and requests
Case Notebook E
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or 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
In-app purchases
Case Notebook E
No in-app purchases
TrialPad
- Access to all LIT SUITE apps7 Days trial2 variants$600.001 Year
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