If you are weighing legal time tracking 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 API-based time tracking software for lawyers focused on one category of work: client communications (email, calls, meetings, messaging). 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-user subscription software. Published pricing tiers start at $59 per user per month for a single workflow integration (e.g., email), with a “Standard” tier at $129 per user per month for unlimited workflow integrations, and a “Premium” tier at $199 per user 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: Time Tracking Software for Lawyers
Lawgbook is a purely API-based, privacy-focused timekeeping solution built around one predictable source of missed time: communications. Email (Gmail, Outlook), video (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet), phone (e.g., RingCentral, VXT), and messaging (e.g., WhatsApp, iMessage) become draft time entries matched to matters. No desktop monitoring, no document or web capture.
Capture. Everything runs over APIs. Lawgbook connects to the communication platforms you already use and pulls activity (sent/received emails, call duration, meeting length and participants). It does not rely on screenshots or app-level desktop tracking. Capture is narrow by design: every client email, call, and meeting can become an entry.
Privacy first. Data is encrypted; communication content is removed from Lawgbook’s systems after 30 days. Each firm has a separate data instance. Timekeepers control what gets published or pushed to the PMS. You see what is captured and where it goes.
Target market and pricing. Lawgbook is built for solo practitioners and mid-size law firms that want legal time tracking without enterprise pricing or desktop surveillance. Pricing is listed publicly, per user, per month. The product slots into existing PMS 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) | Client communications only (email, calls, meetings, messaging) |
| Capture method | Integrations across many tools; may include local components depending on workflows | Purely API-based; no desktop monitoring |
| Processing | AI-generated timesheets with narratives, matter matching, and billing code alignment | Transparent draft entries; you review/publish; 30-day retention for comms content |
| Pricing | Per-user subscription tiers ($59 / $129 / $199 per user per month, per Billables AI) | Public per-user monthly pricing (Lawgbook); designed for solo and mid-size firms |
| Target | Firms that want broad, cross-tool capture and full timesheet reconstruction | Firms that want predictable comms-first capture without surveillance |
| Security | Encryption; access controls and logs; states it does not store privileged data; SSO on higher tiers | Encryption; 30-day retention; no desktop surveillance; privacy-focused |
| Integrations | Clio, MyCase, SurePoint, LeanLaw + workflow tools (email/calendar/docs/meetings) | Gmail, Outlook, Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, WhatsApp, VoIP + PMS connections |
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-user subscription tied to a wide integration footprint.
Consider Lawgbook if your biggest leakage is in client communications and you want a privacy-first time tracking tool that is narrow, predictable, and easy to reason about. Lawgbook is built to capture emails, calls, and meetings without desktop monitoring and with clear data handling (including 30-day retention for communication content).
The main choice is scope: broad workflow reconstruction vs. communications-only capture.
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 emails, calls, and meetings, Lawgbook is the cleaner fit: API-based capture across communications, privacy-first data handling, and a product designed for solo and mid-size firms.
