# Smokeball review (2026): is it worth it? > Practice management with automatic time capture and court forms Checked Oct 24, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. Smokeball is practice management software for small and mid-sized law firms in areas such as family law, personal injury and real estate. It is sold in four plans, from Bill, for billing and trust accounting alone, to Prosper+, which adds automatic time tracking, intake and custom workflows. Its document library fills court forms and templates from matter details. - **Category:** Law Practice Software - **Made by:** Smokeball (since 2013) - **Website:** https://www.smokeball.com - **Runs on:** Web, Windows, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: there's no published price, and a quote depends on users, plan, contract term and add-ons. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026 ## Pricing Smokeball's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **Matters, calendars and tasks:** Each matter holds its documents, tasks, events and contacts, with Microsoft 365 Outlook and calendar integration from Boost and iOS and Android apps for checking matters on the go. - **TemplateLab forms and documents:** A library of more than 20,000 court and agency forms and document templates that fill from the matter, with practice-area templates and calculators from Grow. - **AutoTime:** Logs each action against the matter being worked on, so time entries do not have to be started or written up. Included in Prosper+ and an add-on on Grow. - **Billing, payments and trust:** Invoicing, time and expense tracking, online payments and a trust ledger kept current as entries are made, with QuickBooks Online holding the general ledger. - **Archie AI:** An AI assistant that works inside a matter to draft, review documents and answer questions, sold as an add-on from Boost upward. - **Intake and lead management:** Intake forms are an add-on on Boost and Grow; Prosper+ includes them along with lead management, inquiry intake, custom workflows and profitability reporting. ## Good for - Small firms in family law, personal injury, real estate and similar practice areas - Firms that file many court and agency forms - Lawyers who want time captured without running timers ## Worth knowing - Smokeball publishes no prices: a quote depends on the number of users, the plan, the contract term and add-ons. - Boost runs entirely in the browser; Grow and Prosper+ add the native desktop app, which Smokeball's site lists for Windows. - AutoTime, Intake and Workflows come with Prosper+ only and cost extra on Grow; Archie AI is an add-on on Boost, Grow and Prosper+. - Online payments and eFiling carry fees, and eSignature runs through InfoTrack. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Smokeball fills court and agency forms from a matter's details, drawing on more than 20,000 of them, and AutoTime logs your time as you work. But there's no published price and nothing to try without a demo, AutoTime, intake and workflows are only included on the top plan, and the desktop app is Windows only. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published. Smokeball gives a price only on a sales call, depending on your number of users, the plan, the contract term and any add-ons. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free on record: no free plan and no trial, only a demo with the sales team. - **Features: B.** Matters, tasks and calendars, more than 20,000 court and agency forms, AutoTime, invoicing, online payments, a trust ledger, intake, workflows and the Archie AI assistant across its plans. That's the whole job, though the general ledger sits in QuickBooks Online. - **Ease of use: C.** We have no store rating on file for it. It's a whole firm system with matters, form templates, trust accounts and a QuickBooks link to set up, and you can't sign up yourself: it starts with a demo. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, a Windows desktop app on Grow and Prosper+, and iPhone and Android apps, with Outlook, Word, QuickBooks Online and InfoTrack. No Mac app, and no API or Zapier on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Smokeball's own pages on 24 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among law practice software - Smokeball's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 2 of the 9 other law practice software we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on features (B, above 7 of 9) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Smokeball you would be making client trust accounts kept the way bar rules require. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 4 of the 9 other law practice software grade higher. - You could make: Case management, time tracking, invoicing and templates: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Client trust accounts kept the way bar rules require. - You could not: Apps for Windows, iOS and Android that stay in step with each other. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, QuickBooks Online, InfoTrack **Tags:** Case management, Trust accounting, Time tracking, Invoicing, Templates, AI features ## Alternatives - [Clio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/clio): Practice management, legal accounting and legal AI for law firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/clio-vs-smokeball) - [MyCase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mycase): Case management, billing and client portal for small law firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mycase-vs-smokeball) - [Filevine](https://toolgpa.com/tools/filevine): Case management and the LOIS legal AI system, sold by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/filevine-vs-smokeball) - [PracticePanther](https://toolgpa.com/tools/practicepanther): Law practice management with built-in payments and accounting. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/practicepanther-vs-smokeball) - [Actionstep](https://toolgpa.com/tools/actionstep): Practice management and legal accounting for midsize law firms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/actionstep-vs-smokeball) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 24, 2026: - https://www.smokeball.com/ - https://www.smokeball.com/pricing - https://www.smokeball.com/about - https://www.smokeball.com/archie-ai - https://www.smokeball.com/features/do/autotime - https://www.smokeball.com/features/do/templatelab - https://www.smokeball.com/features/bill/trust-accounting - https://www.smokeball.com/features/bill/invoicing - https://www.smokeball.com/features/manage/matters - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smokeball/id1453634223 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smokeball.android&gl=US Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/smokeball Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).