If you are weighing legal timekeeping tools, Billables AI and Lawgbook are two different approaches. Billables AI is built to capture work across many tools (email, calendar, documents, meetings, browser) and generate a full timesheet draft. Lawgbook is automated timekeeping for law firms: it records your workday and writes accurate time entries matched to the correct matter. Here is how they compare so you can pick the right fit.
Billables AI for Law Firm Time Tracking
Billables AI is an AI-powered time tracking platform designed to build a daily report of billable activity while you work. The core idea is full coverage: connect the tools you use, then let the system draft time entries with matter matching and narratives.
Capture. Billables AI describes passive capture across the tools lawyers already use, including email, calendar, meetings, documents, and browser activity. The product is trying to reconstruct the workday so it can propose time entries across more than just communications.
AI and processing. Billables AI generates draft time entries with matter matching and narrative descriptions. It also positions itself as adaptive: when users edit and approve entries, the system learns billing preferences and narrative style over time. On its Clio and MyCase integration pages, Billables AI also emphasizes exporting approved time entries back into the PMS and aligning entries with task/activity codes.
Target market and pricing. Billables AI is sold as per-seat subscription software. Published pricing tiers start at $59 per seat per month for a single workflow integration (e.g., email), with a “Standard” tier at $129 per seat per month for unlimited workflow integrations, and a “Premium” tier at $199 per seat per month with features like SSO and additional compliance controls.
Integrations and deployment. Billables AI is integration-led. It lists workflow integrations across common productivity suites and conferencing tools, and it offers practice management integrations including Clio and MyCase (as well as SurePoint and LeanLaw). The integration pages describe secure API integrations, with minimal local installation needed.
Security and data handling. Billables AI states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest and that it uses role-based access controls, audited access logs, and SSO options (on higher tiers). It also states it does not store privileged data and that customer data is isolated. For Google Workspace specifically, Billables AI states it does not use Google Workspace data to train generalized AI/ML models.
Reported results. Billables AI (and the MyCase integration listing) cites outcomes like 10–30% more billable time captured and cutting narrative-writing time by up to 90%. Testimonials also describe meaningful recovered time and faster billing. As always, validate the lift in a pilot with your own matters and billing rules.
Lawgbook: Timekeeping Software for Lawyers
Lawgbook is automated timekeeping for law firms. It records your workday and writes accurate, OCG-compliant time entries matched to the correct matter. Essentials, live today, covers email (Gmail, Outlook), calendar, and meetings (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet), with automatic matter matching and automatic email filing to the correct matter in Clio. Full workday capture (documents, browser, research, and everything else) ships with the Professional plan, coming soon, via a desktop companion application.
Capture. Essentials works through official APIs with no desktop monitoring: sent and received emails, calendar events, and meeting length and participants become draft time entries matched to the correct matter, and emails with attachments are filed automatically to the correct matter in Clio. Professional adds an optional desktop companion, coming soon, for full workday capture across documents, browser, and research. Draft narratives are OCG-compliant and configurable to the firm’s style.
Privacy first. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, purged automatically on a regular schedule, and never used to train AI. Each firm has a separate data instance. Timekeepers review and release every entry: you control what gets pushed to the practice management system. You see what is captured and where it goes.
Target market and pricing. Lawgbook is built for solo practitioners and mid-size law firms. Pricing is published publicly and flat, with no per-email fees: Essentials is $29.99 per seat per month, Professional is $59.99 per seat per month (coming soon, with full workday capture), and Enterprise is custom. The product slots into existing practice management workflows (for example, Clio timekeeping) as an enhancement rather than a replacement.
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Billables AI | Lawgbook |
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| What is captured | Broad workflow activity (email, calendar, meetings, documents, browser, and more) | Full workday: email, calendar, and meetings today; documents, browser, and research coming with Professional |
| Capture method | Integrations across many tools; may include local components depending on workflows | Essentials through official APIs with no desktop monitoring; optional desktop companion with Professional |
| Processing | AI-generated timesheets with narratives, matter matching, and billing code alignment | Draft entries with automatic matter matching and OCG-compliant narratives; you review and release |
| Pricing | Per-seat subscription tiers ($59 / $129 / $199 per seat per month, per Billables AI) | Flat published pricing: Essentials $29.99 per seat per month; Professional $59.99 per seat per month (coming soon); Enterprise custom |
| Target | Firms that want broad, cross-tool capture and full timesheet reconstruction | Firms that want accurate, matter-matched entries and flat published pricing |
| Security | Encryption; access controls and logs; states it does not store privileged data; SSO on higher tiers | Encrypted in transit and at rest; data purged periodically; never used to train AI |
| Integrations | Clio, MyCase, SurePoint, LeanLaw + workflow tools (email/calendar/docs/meetings) | Clio, Gmail, Outlook, Zoom, Teams, Google Meet |
When to Choose Which
Consider Billables AI if you want broad capture across the tools lawyers use all day and you want your timesheet drafted from a full activity picture (documents, meetings, email, and browser research). Billables AI is also a fit when your firm wants deeper PMS synchronization and is comfortable with a per-seat subscription tied to a wide integration footprint.
Consider Lawgbook if you want accurate time entries written for you: automatic matter matching, OCG-compliant narratives in a style you configure, and automatic email filing to the correct matter in Clio, at flat published pricing. Essentials covers email, calendar, and meetings today, and full workday capture (documents, browser, research, and everything else) arrives with Professional, coming soon.
The main choice is approach: how each product captures the workday, how accurately entries are matched and written, and how you pay.
What to Do Next
If your missed time spans research, drafting, and switching across many tools, Billables AI is designed to capture that broader workflow and draft a full timesheet.
If your missed time is concentrated in email, calendar, and meetings, Lawgbook covers that today, and Professional extends capture to documents, browser, and research when it ships. Either way, you get accurate matter matching, OCG-compliant narratives, and flat published pricing. You can book a demo to see it against your own matters.
