Paperbook

A legal workspace, built for lawyers by lawyers.

Paperbook puts the paper book on one side and ruled paper on the other. Highlight a passage, lift it onto the page beside, write your note, and draw a line to link the note to where it came from. When the Bench asks for the page, you are already there.

Coming soon for iPad and Mac

No account needed. No advertisements. Your cases stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Paperbook on an iPad. On the left, page 47 of a writ petition, with a passage highlighted and an Issue flag at the edge of the page. On the right, a sheet of ruled workspace paper holding that passage as an excerpt, with handwritten notes. A red ink line links the highlighted passage on the page to the excerpt. 48 47 10. That the petitioner submitted his reply dated 02.02.2024 to the notice of the same date, and was never heard thereafter. A copy of the reply is annexed as Annexure P-6. 11. That the impugned order dated 14.03.2024 (Annexure P-7) was passed without issuing any show cause notice to the petitioner and without affording him an opportunity of hearing. The order is therefore in breach of the principles of natural justice, and is liable to be set aside on this ground alone. 12. That the respondents have, in similar cases, granted a personal hearing before passing orders under the same provision. The petitioner has thus been singled out and treated unequally, in breach of Article 14 of the Constitution of India. 13. That the petitioner has no other equally efficacious remedy, and is constrained to approach this Hon’ble Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Issue Ground A: natural justice without issuing any show cause notice to the petitioner and without affording him an opportunity of hearing. No show cause notice. No hearing. Order bad. Show P-7 at p. 112. Hearing given to others (para 12): Art. 14 as well. Bookmarks Paper book, Vol. I Index List of dates Writ petition Annexures P-1 to P-9 Paper book, Vol. II Reply of respondent 2 Rejoinder Orders Judgments cited Harpreet Singh Gill v. State of Punjab CWP 21976 of 2024 Page 47 of 312
An illustration. The case, its parties and its pages are invented.

What it does

Set out the way a paper book sets out its contents.

S. No.ParticularsWhat it does
Reading and marking
1.One pen for everythingWrite on the page, write on the workspace, and draw a line between the two to link them. The line settles into a clean arc, follows the page as it scrolls, and takes you to the page when tapped.
2.A highlighter that stays under the textHighlights sit under the words, never over them, so even a faint scan stays readable.
3.ExcerptsLift any passage onto the workspace. An excerpt is a picture of the passage exactly as it appears on the page, so it works on scanned paper books, and a tap takes you back to its place.
4.Flags at the edge of the pageMark a page as an Issue, a Finding or the Impugned order. The flag peeps out from the edge of the page, where you can find it in the middle of an argument.
5.Made for Apple Pencil ProSqueeze for a small ring with two pens, the eraser and undo. Hold the Pencil still at the end of a stroke to straighten a line or tidy a circle.
6.Pens set the way lawyers writeEight colours and five thicknesses, from thin to thick, the same everywhere in the app.
The workspace
7.Paper to think onIvory ruled paper with a margin, or dotted, plain and legal-size pages that print as sheets. The workspace runs on as far as you need and pinches in and out.
8.A second workspaceKeep more than one workspace in a case, for a second line of argument or a rejoinder.
9.Bare provisionsPull the sections cited on a sheet into one list, each with a short description and a link to the bare text, with its BNS or IPC counterpart beside it. The bare Acts, Rules and Regulations come from a shared library and are downloaded when needed.
Paper books
10.Bookmarks for every documentThe petition, reply, rejoinder, orders and judgments sit in folders in the sidebar. Drag in a whole folder to import it, rename anything, and reorder by dragging.
11.The index, linkedPull the index of a paper book and its annexure references, A-1, P-3 and the rest, become links to their pages, from the master index in the first volume into the volumes that follow. A Prayer tab goes straight to the prayer clause.
12.Paper book page numbersGo to a page by the number printed on the paper book, the one the Bench and your opponent will use.
13.Parties and defined termsKeep the parties to a case, and the terms its pleadings define, in one place.
14.ExportExport any document with your markings or clean, one at a time or all together as separate files.
Cases
15.A home screen for hundreds of casesFolders and subfolders, courts such as the High Court, NCLT and NCLAT in the sidebar, and a trail that leads back home.
16.On the device, and in iCloudEvery case is saved to your iCloud and kept on the device. Offload the cases you are not using to free space, and bring them back when you need them.
17.Orders from Cause DiaryIf you use Cause Diary, pull a case’s latest orders into a folder within the case.
Working together
18.Share a caseShare a whole case, documents and workspaces, with colleagues through iCloud, and work in it together, stroke by stroke. The workspaces arrive first, so work can start while the documents download.
19.AI, with your own keyAdd an API key from your own AI provider to use the AI features. Without a key, nothing is sent anywhere.

Made in a litigation practice.

Less on the screen. Only what you use.

Paperbook was designed around the way paper books actually reach a lawyer: scanned, hundreds of pages long, filed in volumes, with an index that has to lead to the right page the moment the Bench asks for it.

It is meant to be used the way lawyers work, in landscape, on an iPad in court and on a Mac in chambers. Every feature in it is there because it was needed in a hearing or at the desk the night before.

From paper book to argument

  1. Add the case

    Drag in the paper book, or a whole folder of pleadings and orders.

  2. Pull the index

    The index becomes a set of links to the annexures and their pages.

  3. Mark and link

    Highlight, lift passages onto the workspace, write your notes, and link each one to its page.

  4. Argue from it

    In court, the index, bookmarks, flags and links take you to the page the Bench asks for.

Paperbook runs no server of its own. Your cases are kept on your iPad or Mac and in your own iCloud, and we have no access to them. A case you share goes only to the colleagues you invite.

The app does not give legal advice. See the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, or go to Support for help.