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Astrid Legal vs LegalMate

Competitor details last checked October 6, 2026

LegalMate is built for firms on Clio. It reads recordings from the firm's own phone system and logs each call to Clio as a note and a time entry, and its site says hourly-billing firms benefit most. Astrid works with several case management systems, drafts the note in your firm's format, holds it for attorney approval and drafts a recap for the client. If you are a Clio firm that bills hourly and wants calls logged with no new app, LegalMate is built for that. If you need an approved record, a client recap, or a system other than Clio, look at Astrid.

At a glance

Feature	Astrid	LegalMate
Built for	Law firms in any practice area, including plaintiff, family law, criminal defense, civil litigation, estate planning, real estate, corporate and business law, and IP.	Law firms using Clio. Its homepage says firms with 4 or more attorneys and high call volume, and its site says hourly-billing firms benefit most.
Phone calls	Zoom Phone, plus a dial-in bridge for any carrier.	Ingests recordings from the firm's own Dialpad, RingCentral, Quo or Zoom Phone account, with recording turned on. No bot or app on the call.
Video meetings	A notetaker bot joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet.	Listed as coming soon.
In person and files	Record in person from your phone using the Astrid web app in the phone's browser, with no app to install, or from a computer browser. You can also upload a file.	Not stated.
Mobile apps	There is no iOS or Android app yet, and both are planned for release before December 2026. Until then Astrid works in the phone's browser, with recording and the call screens built for phones. Some other screens are not yet laid out for small screens.	Not stated. A mobile call is covered only if it runs through the firm's phone system.
Desktop app	A Windows desktop app records without a bot in the meeting. A Mac app is coming.	None stated. It works from the firm's phone system, with no app on the call.
Case management filing	Clio Manage, 8am MyCase, 8am CasePeer, Smokeball and Lawcus.	Clio. Filevine is listed as launching soon. No other system is listed.
What is synced to the case management system	Matters are searched live by client name or phone, and the client's contact details are read in. After an attorney approves the note, the note and each follow-up task are filed to the matter, as a Clio phone log, a Smokeball memo, a CasePeer case note, a MyCase note or a Lawcus interaction. A recap the firm sends is filed to the matter too. Task filing to MyCase is not live yet, and filing time entries to Clio and Smokeball is rolling out to select firms.	Clio only. Per its site, a time entry, a communication record and a note for each call, plus Dialpad texts. Its machine-readable summary also lists automatic tasks. Emails are searchable in LegalMate but are not synced to Clio.
Attorney approval before a note is final	Drafted in the firm's own note format. An attorney approves it before it becomes the record, and each approval is stored with who approved and when.	Its product pages describe notes and time entries as created automatically and do not describe a required approval step. A machine-readable summary on its site says staff can review and edit output.
Client recap	A written recap is drafted for the client and sent by the firm.	Drafts a follow-up email for the attorney to review and send.
Time entries	Drafts a time entry from the call for the attorney to review. Filing it to the case management system is rolling out to select firms.	Creates a Clio time entry with a written description for each call, per its site.
AI chat on a matter's calls	Ask Astrid answers questions about one matter or client using only that file's transcripts, approved notes and recaps, and cites the call and timestamp behind each answer. Calls marked privileged are left out for anyone without access. It is available on laptop and tablet screens, not on a phone.	Ask LegalMate answers questions across a firm's calls and emails, such as catching up on a client. A vendor blog describes the chat as in preview.
Recording consent	The firm sets a recording consent mode, and each call keeps a consent record. Bot-joined meetings play an audible disclosure.	No product feature described. Its master service agreement makes the customer responsible for notices and consents.
Security and training	Your firm's content is not used to train models. No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification and no independent penetration test yet. The security page says what is and is not in place.	No SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA attestation is stated for LegalMate itself. It names its cloud host's certifications. Its contracts bar model training, with an exception for models specific to the customer. Data may be processed in Canada, Australia and the United States.
Price	$40 per person per month billed monthly, or $400 per person per year billed annually, which is 2 months free. 14-day free trial. No per-call or per-minute charges.	Not published. Its site says pricing is based on the features enabled, with a free demo call.

What LegalMate is

LegalMate Inc. is based in Ontario, Canada. It connects to a firm's existing Dialpad, RingCentral, Quo or Zoom Phone account, with call recording turned on, and ingests the recordings. There is no bot or app on the call. It produces a transcript, a summary, matter matching and a Clio time entry with a written description.

Its site lists Clio as the only case management system that is live, with Filevine described as launching soon, and describes Zoom, Google Meet and Teams meeting capture as coming soon. Its pricing is not published.

When LegalMate is the better fit

You run Clio, bill hourly and want calls turned into time entries with no change to how your team works.
Your calls already run through Dialpad, RingCentral, Quo or Zoom Phone with recording on.
You want matter matching rules that attach calls to a client's open matter.

When Astrid is the better fit

You use MyCase, CasePeer, Smokeball or Lawcus, or you want more than one system supported.
You want an attorney to approve each note before it becomes the record.
You need phone capture beyond a firm phone system, such as a dial-in bridge for any carrier, or you need video meeting capture today.
You want per-person pricing published, with no per-call charge.

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Questions to ask any vendor

Can I see it capture a real phone call from my own phone system, not a recorded demo?
What happens to a note before it is filed to the matter or sent to anyone? Who has to approve it?
Which case management systems are live today, and what exactly gets filed to each?
How are recording notice and consent handled for a state that requires every party to agree?
Is my firm's content used to train any model, under what terms, and can that be switched off?
Is there a setting to hold a time entry or note for approval before it is written to Clio?
Which list of subprocessors applies to my firm, and which AI model providers see call content?

Frequently asked questions

Does LegalMate work without Clio?

Its site lists Clio as the only case management system that is live. It describes Filevine as launching soon and names no other system.

Does LegalMate capture video meetings?

Its site describes Zoom, Google Meet and Teams capture as coming soon. Today it works from the recordings in a firm's phone system.

What does LegalMate cost?

It does not publish prices. Its site says pricing is based on the features enabled and offers a free demo call. Astrid publishes its price: $40 per person per month billed monthly, or $400 per person per year billed annually.

Where this comes from

This page compares what each company says on its own public website on the date shown above. It is not a hands-on test of the other product, and products change. Where a page says a feature is not stated, that means we did not find it on the vendor's site, not that it does not exist. Confirm current capabilities and pricing with each vendor before you decide.