Fylely vs Smokeball
Smokeball is law-practice management software for small firms, known for automatic time capture and a large library of automated documents.
Fylely is practice software built around the estate file — the inventory, the ledger, creditor claims, the family's questions — with guardianship and general matters beside it, for solo and small firms. Where the two differ most is below, and so is when Smokeball is the better choice.
Where Smokeball is the better fit
- A firm that bills by the hour across many matters and wants time captured automatically from documents and email.
- A firm whose work is mostly document assembly from a large forms library.
- A firm that prefers a quoted price and a sales conversation.
Where Fylely is the better fit
- A price you can read on the page: one monthly price for the firm, no contract term, cancel any time.
- An estate file with the inventory, estate ledger, creditor claims and the accounting that starts from them.
- A trial that is the whole workspace, with no card and no call.
How each charges
Smokeball
Smokeball’s pricing page lists four plans and asks you to request a quote; it says the price depends on the number of users, the plan and the contract term.
Current figures are on Smokeball's pricing page. We do not print them here: they change, and a stale number about someone else's product would be a false claim with our name on it.
Fylely
One monthly price for the firm, not a price per person. Every plan has every feature; they differ by open matters, team members and support.
- Solo — $60/mo, up to 40 open matters
- Practice — $119/mo, up to 100 open matters, up to 3 team members
- Firm — $199/mo, up to 300 open matters, unlimited team members
14-day trial of the full workspace, no card. Cancel any time; your exports work whether or not you pay. The plans in full.
Moving from Smokeball
Export matters, contacts and time from Smokeball as CSV files; the importer maps the headings with you and shows every row before anything is saved. Documents come across as a folder or ZIP with one folder per matter, matched by matter name or number.
You do not have to move everything at once: open your next new estate in Fylely and leave the old files where they are until they close. The full account of what comes across and what does not is on Switching to Fylely. If you would rather not map columns yourself, send us your exports from Settings → Import once you have an account and we prepare the files, at no charge.
What every Fylely plan has
- A home screen that shows what is late, due this week, and which files have gone quiet, across every matter.
- An estate file built around the inventory, the estate ledger and the accounting that starts from it, creditor claims, asset collection letters, and a private message thread with each family member.
- Guardianship and conservatorship files with a care profile and a contact log, and general matters (litigation, family, real estate) with the same deadlines, documents, time and billing.
- Time, expenses, invoices, online payments, payment plans, a trust ledger that never lets a client go below zero, and monthly reconciliation with a printable report.
- E-signatures, letters from templates, client intake forms, a client portal and document requests, built in rather than connected.
- CSV and ZIP import with a preview of every row, exports of every record and every document at any time, an API and webhooks, LEDES 1998B billing, and calendar feeds for Outlook, Google and Apple.
- One price for the firm, every feature on every plan, and a full-workspace trial with no card.
What Fylely does not do
- E-file with any court, or keep a library of state court forms. It fills a fillable PDF you supply, from the matter’s own records.
- Calculate a statutory deadline. You enter or confirm every date; it can suggest a few federal tax dates from dates you enter, each with its citation.
- Keep the firm’s own books. It sends sent invoices and recorded payments to QuickBooks Online or Xero, one way, and downloads an accountant’s spreadsheets.
- Hold more than one trust account per firm.
- Offer phone support, a Zapier app, or a native mobile app. Support is by email; webhooks and an API take the place of a Zapier app; the web app installs on a phone or desktop.
Look before you decide
The sample workspace opens without an account. The trial is the full workspace, with no card, and your existing matters stay readable if it ends.
No credit card. The calculators on this site stay free either way.
Smokeball is a trademark of its owner. Fylely is not affiliated with or endorsed by Smokeball. What this page says about Smokeball was read from its public pages on 7 October 2026; tell us at the address in the footer if something has changed.