TrialMate vs VisibleHour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TrialMate
This app assists attorneys in preparing for trials by organizing case facts, witnesses, and exhibits. It helps draft examinations, import and analyze documents with OCR, and provides access to legal rules offline. AI features are available for drafting and citation checking, with a focus on user privacy.
- Case chronology builder
- Witness examination drafting (direct/cross)
- Document import with OCR
- AI-assisted drafting and citation checking
- Offline Federal Rules of Evidence
- Private data storage
- Case export and backup
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TrialMate is trial preparation for attorneys who do their own prep. Build the case chronology. Every fact gets a date, the witnesses who can speak to it, and the exhibits that prove it. Mark the facts in dispute and filter to them in one tap. Prepare every witness. Mark each witness as yours or theirs. Direct examination is drafted as open questions; cross examination as leading questions, one fact each. Write your own, note the page and line behind each one, and tick them off as you ask them at trial. Work from your documents. Import a PDF, a scan or a photo, and TrialMate reads the text, running OCR on scanned pages. Summaries quote the document, and any quotation that cannot be found in the text is marked so you check it before relying on it. Draft openings, closings and motion outlines from your own record. Drafts are built from your chronology and notes. The AI is told not to cite cases, and any case or rule citation that appears anyway is marked unverified for you to check. The Federal Rules of Evidence, on your device. Search the official text with no signal, which is what a courtroom usually gives you. The amendment to Rule 801 effective December 1, 2026 takes effect in the app on that date. Private by design. Your cases stay on your device and in your own private iCloud backup, which you can switch off if your firm keeps client material out of the cloud. AI features run only when you tap them, only material from the case you are working in is sent, and it goes only to AI providers that keep no copy of it. No advertising, no tracking, no account. Protect your work. A deleted case is kept for 30 days, on your device and in iCloud, and can be restored. Export any case as a Trial Preparation Report PDF, or as data you keep. Free for two active cases with the whole app inside them. Pro removes the case limit and unlocks the AI features: $49.99 a month, or $399.99 a year, which saves about 33 percent. Pro starts with a one week free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase, or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your Apple account settings. TrialMate is a preparation aid, not legal advice. Check every draft and citation before you rely on it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://thrasherapps.com/trialmate/privacy.html TrialMate Terms: https://thrasherapps.com/trialmate/terms.html Support: https://thrasherapps.com/trialmate/support.html
VisibleHour
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An always-visible view of time on your phone, your wrist, and your spatial workspace. The day, drained as it passes. Your session, draining as you work. A quiet tap on your wrist when you've been at something too long. For when 30 minutes feels like 5. VisibleHour is a single-purpose external time sense — designed for people whose internal clock isn't always reliable. For time blindness. For hyperfocus. For the moments when "just five more minutes" becomes an hour. The dial isn't a clock face you check. It's a clock face you live alongside, on every surface you already glance at. Three rhythms, on every screen. The day. Your waking hours rendered as a draining amber arc — from the moment you start your day until you wind it down. Tells you how much day is in front of you, not just what time it is right now. The session. A focused block — 15, 25/5 Pomodoro, 30, 60, or 90 minutes. The pie at the center drains as time passes — a visual timer at session scale. Tap it to zoom into a visual timer face with minute marks. Pomodoro mode shows two amber tones — work, then a softer break. The body. A quiet tap on the wrist at the interval you set — 60, 90, or 120 minutes. No banner. No streak. No "you've been at this for two hours" guilt. Just a tap that says: notice the time. Optional desk mode — keep your phone or iPad awake during a session so the dial stays visible while you work. Cross-device sync. Start a session on your Vision Pro while working in spatial. Within a second, the Live Activity appears on your iPhone Lock Screen and the dial fills on your Apple Watch. Stop on the Watch — every screen clears together. Powered by iCloud private database, with no telemetry leaving your device. Calendar-aware. Optionally show your day's events on the dial — a quiet ink line for each meeting, sitting alongside your session. Tap the dial to surface the next event's title. Widgets everywhere. Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets on iPhone. Native complications on Apple Watch in four families. A spatial widget on Apple Vision Pro that coexists with your email, your MacBook display, and whatever else is in your spatial workspace. What it isn't. This is not a habit tracker. Not a productivity hammer. Not a notification machine. There are no streaks, no leaderboards, no "you used the app 12 days in a row" celebrations. There's no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no ads. The whole product is one quiet answer to a quiet question — how much time has passed? Privacy. No tracking. No analytics. No third-party services. The only data that ever leaves your device is the small piece of state that syncs through your private iCloud (active session, day boundaries, awareness interval, appearance preference). Calendar events are read locally on each device — they never sync to the cloud. Made quietly by sthreelabs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TrialMate at Free against VisibleHour's $4.99. TrialMate also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). VisibleHour's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads 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
TrialMate is free to download; VisibleHour costs $4.99 up front. TrialMate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $49.99 per month. VisibleHour asks for nothing beyond the download.
TrialMate ships an update weekly, VisibleHour every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TrialMate | VisibleHour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chris Thrasher | sthreelabs LLC |
In-app purchases
TrialMate
- Monthly Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Month
- Yearly Premium - Best Value7 Days trial$399.991 Year
VisibleHour
No in-app purchases









