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CASEpeer vs Smokeball

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CASEpeer

Legal

Case management built specifically for plaintiff personal injury firms

From
$79/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Smokeball

Legal

Practice management for small law firms with automatic time capture

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: CASEpeer it is built for plaintiff contingency work, so a firm doing hourly defence or corporate work will find no billing model that matches how it earns.; Smokeball requires a Windows desktop component for automatic time capture, so it is not browser-only like its competitors
  • They diverge on capability: CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Smokeball covers Automatic time capture.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which CASEpeer and Smokeball actually diverge.

Attributes where CASEpeer and Smokeball differ
AttributeCASEpeerSmokeball
Starting price$79/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer user per monthquote
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWindows, Web, iOS, Android

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Legal).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in CASEpeer

  • Intake and case screening
  • Medical treatment tracking
  • Settlement and lien management
  • Negotiation tracking
  • Statute of limitations monitoring

Only in Smokeball

  • Automatic time capture
  • Matter management
  • Document automation
  • Billing and trust accounting

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

CASEpeer

  • Plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien trackingnot Smokeball
  • Contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one placenot Smokeball
  • Personal injury firms with high lead volume that need intake conversion measurednot Smokeball
  • Firms exposed to missed limitation dates across a large open caseloadnot Smokeball

Smokeball

  • Firms billing hourly that lose revenue to unrecorded timenot CASEpeer
  • Small practices replacing paper matter files and spreadsheetsnot CASEpeer
  • Firms needing court form automation for high-volume matter typesnot CASEpeer

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

CASEpeer

  • It is built for plaintiff contingency work, so a firm doing hourly defence or corporate work will find no billing model that matches how it earns.
  • There is no full double-entry general ledger, so the firm still needs separate accounting software and somebody to reconcile between the two.
  • The narrow personal injury focus means a practice that diversifies into family, employment or criminal work has to run a second system or migrate.
  • It has changed corporate hands three times since 2021, from independent to MyCase to AffiniPay, now trading as 8am, so roadmap continuity is a fair question to put to the vendor.
  • Sitting in the 8am group aligns it with LawPay and MyCase, so firms committed to a different payments provider get less from the integrations.

Smokeball

  • Requires a Windows desktop component for automatic time capture, so it is not browser-only like its competitors
  • Quote-only pricing with no published rates
  • Aimed at small firms; larger practices with complex billing arrangements generally outgrow it

Pricing, plan by plan

CASEpeer

$79/month
  • Basic$79/month
    • Personal injury case management
    • Intake and treatment tracking
    • No minimum seat count
  • Pro$119/month
    • Adds reporting and automation
    • Lien and settlement tracking
    • No long-term contract required
  • Advanced$149/month
    • Full feature set
    • Advanced reporting
    • No long-term contract required

Smokeball

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Smokeball review.

Which should you pick?

Choose CASEpeer if

  • You need intake and case screening.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want medical treatment tracking.
CASEpeer review

Choose Smokeball if

  • You need automatic time capture.
  • You work on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want matter management.
Smokeball review

Questions people ask

Is CASEpeer or Smokeball better?
Neither clearly leads. CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Smokeball at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, CASEpeer or Smokeball?
CASEpeer starts at $79/month and Smokeball at On request.
Does CASEpeer or Smokeball run on more platforms?
CASEpeer runs on Web, iOS, Android. Smokeball runs on Windows, Web, iOS, Android.
What is CASEpeer best used for?
CASEpeer is most often used for plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien tracking, contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one place, personal injury firms with high lead volume that need intake conversion measured, firms exposed to missed limitation dates across a large open caseload. Of those, plaintiff personal injury firms replacing spreadsheets for medical records and lien tracking and contingency practices needing case value, costs advanced and net client distribution in one place are not what Smokeball is typically brought in for.
What can CASEpeer do that Smokeball cannot?
CASEpeer covers Intake and case screening, Medical treatment tracking, Settlement and lien management, Negotiation tracking. Smokeball covers Automatic time capture, Matter management, Document automation, Billing and trust accounting.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

CASEpeer: Is CASEpeer suitable for a corporate or defence firm?

No. It is built around contingency personal injury work: treatment, liens and settlement. A corporate firm billing hourly should look at Clio, Tabs3 or a large firm system instead.

Smokeball: What does Smokeball cost?

Pricing is quoted per firm and not published.

CASEpeer: What does CASEpeer cost?

Published per-user rates are 79 USD for Basic, 119 USD for Pro and 149 USD for Advanced per month, with no minimum seat count and no long-term contract required.

Smokeball: How does automatic time capture work?

A desktop application observes work on matters and turns activity into billable entries, rather than depending on someone remembering to start a timer.

CASEpeer: Who owns CASEpeer?

It was acquired by MyCase in March 2021 and moved to AffiniPay in June 2022. AffiniPay rebranded to 8am in August 2025, so CASEpeer now sits alongside MyCase and LawPay in that group.

Smokeball: Does it run on Mac?

The automatic time capture component is Windows-based, which is the main platform constraint.

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