
What is Smokeball?
Smokeball is a cloud-based legal practice management software that automatically records time and activity for you. Whether you bill hourly, fixed fee, or on contingency, Smokeball provides you the insights you need to run a more successful law firm. With full billing capability, industry-leading document automation library with over 14,000 legal forms, Daily Digest, shared calendars and practice-area-specific matter types, it鈥檚 no wonder the most successful small law firms rely on Smokeball to increase productivity, stay more organized, and drive law firm profitability.
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Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
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+100 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Smokeball?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Email Management
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Conflict Management
Contact Management
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Smokeball Reviews

Oluwatosin A.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
A Powerful Legal Software
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Smokeball from other similar products?
What sets Smokeball apart is its automatic time tracking and activity capture, which help ensure that no billable work slips through the cracks. It's designed specifically for small law firms, combining case management, billing, and document automation in one easy-to-use platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The auto forms and now the added Archie. I mean they take work smarter not harder to another level. To have all that at your fingertips seems almost too good to be true.
What do you dislike most about this product?
teams meet and other programming has so many glitches and many are not familiar with its function. They should be able to integrate with Google (more straight forward and user friendly) whereas you add the dates on a matter and they auto add to your Google calendar.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you're considering Smokeball, take time to explore its automation and automatic time tracking features鈥攖hey鈥檙e real time-savers and can boost billing accuracy. It's especially useful for small firms, so make sure to tailor the setup to your specific workflow for the best results.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Trustworthy

NERO A.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Mar 2025
An easy and efficient software
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Smokeball from other similar products?
It is easy to navigate because of its user friendly interface
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I can integrate it with microsoft office
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have no issues when i use this product
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It has option for free trial which you can use to see if the features match the need of your firm and practice
Pros
- Reliable
- Efficient Service
- Effective Service
- Helps Innovate

Mitali C.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jul 2021
Smokeball is Life Changing
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Smokeball from other similar products?
Its features
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Definitely the auto time keeping.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I only wish the automatic time capturing also captured my time spent in research online and in Lexis
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Smokeball is definitely worth the investment.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing