Every feature, filed under the product it replaces.
82 of 85 features are built and running. Each one sits under the company whose feature it mirrors, so you can see exactly which subscriptions Coil covers. The last group is what no competitor does.
Coil exists to give law firms an alternative that does not nickel and dime you, does not keep increasing pricing sneakily, and does not make you pay for every tool in a suite when you only use 15% of them.
The goal is to provide this at cost, as close to free as we can get.
Clio Manage
Core practice management. Clio's plans run $49 to $149 per user per month.
- Client statement: every invoice, payment and trust application with a running balance
- Invoice template editor: logo, colour, columns, labels, payment wording, preview
- Contacts and matters with custom fields
- Time tracking with a timer (6-minute rounding)
- Expenses with receipt capture
- Invoicing: flat fee, hourly, contingency, hybrid
- Bulk invoicing and approval workflow
- Split billing across payers
- Interest on overdue balances
- Trust (IOLTA) accounting with three-way reconciliation
- Evergreen retainer top-up requests
- Tasks, deadlines, limitations dates
- Calendar with recurrence, per-user calendars, ICS feeds
- Court rules calendaring (generic starter sets) partial
- Document automation from DOCX and HTML templates
- Client portal with magic-link login
- Secure client messaging in the portal
- Conflict check across names, files and messages
- Matter templates with task workflows
- Roles and permissions, offices, audit log
- Reports: AR aging, WIP, revenue, productivity, origination, realization, profitability
- UTBMS codes and LEDES 1998B export
- Multi-currency matters and invoices
- Mobile apps planned
- Chrome time-tracking extension
Clio Grow
Clio's separate intake and CRM product. In Coil it is one flow with the matter.
- Public intake form and lead list
- Intake to signed engagement letter in one step
- Engagement letters with open and signature tracking
- Lead pipeline (kanban) and follow-up sequences
Clio Manage AI
The $10 add-on people on Reddit actually use: dates from documents, client update emails, monthly invoicing, AR questions.
- Scheduled monthly invoicing per matter (python -m app.cli monthly_invoicing)
- Draft client update email from notes, work, tasks and dates
- A/R and hours questions answered from your data without the model
- Pull dates from a document into tasks and calendar
- Matter summary
- Invoice narrative cleanup
- Natural-language search
Clio Work
Research and drafting. Several Reddit users say it replaces Westlaw or Lexis at about $200 per attorney.
- Case law search on CourtListener (free public database)
- Full opinion reader with optional AI summary and holding
- Save authorities to a matter with notes
- Research memo export as a PDF filed on the matter
- Citation check that flags citations which do not resolve
Clio Payments / LawPay
Card and ACH processing with trust-safe handling. Coil uses your own Stripe account at Stripe rates.
- Public invoice page with ACH (no fee) and card (surcharge you set)
- Stripe Checkout with idempotent webhooks
- Online trust deposits
- Invoice open tracking
Filevine
Personal-injury case management: providers, records, liens, settlement.
- PI case facts and stage board
- Provider and records tracking with request letters
- Lien tracking with reduction letters
- Demand package builder
- Settlement disbursement worksheet with trust postings
- Standard PI task set
Eve Legal
Plaintiff-side AI: records into chronologies, demands, discovery, depositions, a nightly case audit, case scoring.
- Discovery drafting: propound from starter sets tailored by AI, or parse a served set and draft responses with objections
- Deposition summaries with page:line citations and contradictions against the chronology
- Nightly case audit: records, gaps, imaging, limitations, liens, demands (rules) plus AI flags labelled as such
- Case scoring at intake and on PI cases, with the factors shown
- Medical record extraction into a treatment chronology, with page references and a confirm step
- Case overview written from the documents, chronology, providers, liens and notes
- Narrative demand letter drafted in the firm's voice from style-example letters, saved as a PDF
NetDocuments
Document management.
- Documents per matter, shared to the portal
- Versions, folders, tags
- Full-text search inside files
- Email filing to matters (IMAP)
HubSpot
What one Reddit user said he would use instead of Grow.
- Pipeline stages with drag and drop
- Follow-up sequences (drafts unless the firm turns on sending)
PracticePanther
The simple, cheaper suite several solos in the thread prefer.
- Two-way texting attached to the matter
- E-signature on any document
- Custom dashboard
LeanLaw / QuickBooks
Billing that lives on QuickBooks Online.
- QuickBooks CSV exports (invoices, payments, customers)
- Operating ledger, bank import, reconciliation, P&L
- Live two-way QuickBooks sync planned
TimeSolv / Bill4Time / OnPoint
The $10 to $40 time-and-billing tools named as Clio alternatives.
- Time, expenses, invoices, trust in one place
Smokeball
Known for automatic time capture from documents and email.
- Time capture suggestions from the browser extension: tabs become suggested entries with a guessed matter, accept or dismiss
Calendly / Lawmatics
Self-scheduled consults, paid or free, with intake questionnaires.
Nothing here yet.
Hona / Case Status
A client-facing stage timeline with automatic updates.
Nothing here yet.
Kenect / Podium
Review requests by text and email after a matter closes.
Nothing here yet.
CosmoLex
Fee splits and compensation reporting.
- Fee splits per matter: originating, working and referral percentages
- Compensation report: collected fees allocated by working split, originating credit alongside, CSV
Gravity Legal
Cards on file and payment plans.
- Card on file with client consent (emailed link or from the portal), stored at Stripe
- Charge an invoice to the card on file, surcharge per firm settings
- Payment plans: weekly, biweekly or monthly installments, auto-charged or emailed (python -m app.cli payment_plans)
Gavel / Documate
Guided questionnaire-to-document generation.
Nothing here yet.
CaseFleet / TrialPad
Fact chronology tied to evidence, witnesses and exhibits; trial notebook.
Nothing here yet.
CourtDrive / Docketbird
Docket alerts on followed cases (via CourtListener RECAP).
Nothing here yet.
Adobe / Bates tools
Bates numbering, exhibit stamps, redaction boxes, table of authorities.
Nothing here yet.
Ruby / Smith.ai
Phone intake that lands in the pipeline.
- Phone intake API: POST /api/v1/leads creates and scores a lead, idempotent on an external reference
- Voice intake agent hook: the after-hours DUI agent posts a finished intake to Coil when COIL_LEADS_URL is set
Vertical case types
Practice-area modules beyond PI.
- Criminal defense: stage board, case facts, charges with attorney-entered ranges, court date chain, speedy-trial check, disposition PDF
Coil only
Not modelled on any competitor.
- Priced at cost, no per-seat tiers, no add-ons
- Self-hosted with a free install key
- REST API with tokens and outgoing webhooks
- Spanish client-facing pages and emails
- Installable web app (PWA)
built partial planned
Common questions
Why list features by other companies’ names?
Because that is how you shop. You already know what Clio Manage, Clio Grow, Filevine or LawPay do. Filing each Coil feature under the product it replaces tells you in one glance what you can stop paying for.
Does this mean Coil is a copy of those products?
No. It means Coil does the job those products charge for, built for a solo rather than a hundred-lawyer firm. Where a competitor does something Coil does not, the entry says planned or is simply absent.
What does all of it cost?
Nothing during the beta, hosted or self-hosted. After the beta the hosted version is priced at what it costs us to run, published as one number. Self-hosted stays free.