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Genie AI vs App4Legal
Let's compare App4Legal and Genie AI on features, pricing, reviews and market focus. Let's test the accuracy, security and compliance of their Legal AI too.
What is Genie AI?
Genie AI is a secure intelligent platform that streamlines contract drafting, reviewing, and editing with cutting-edge, AI-powered tools.
✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review
App4Legal
✅ Lawyer-supported AI and ML at the core of the platform
✅ Comprehensive legal practice management software
✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place
❌ No AI or machine learning capabilities mentioned
✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2
❓ Encryption details not specified
✅ You own the IP of your data. We don't train our models on your data. None of our partners train their models on your data.
❓ Compliance with specific security standards not mentioned
❓ Multiple authentication options (coming soon) (request this feature)
❓ Data sovereignty details not provided
✅ Granular user permissions and access control features (document level, project level, organization level, party level)
❓ Authentication methods not specified
✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations
✅ Role-based access control available
✅ Industry-leading AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities (all expected provisions and sections over 20 pages)
❓ Compliance with specific data privacy standards not confirmed
✅ Built-in real-time collaboration features just like Office365 or Google Docs (No need to download your red-lined version, and make it editable, then send it on - it's all doable within Genie)
❌ No dedicated contract drafting capabilities, unlike Genie
✅ Powerful AI-driven contract analysis, red/amber/green flag reviews every clause (industry-leading improvements coming in 2025)
✅ Some collaboration features available
✅ Manage your projects and organise your own template and clause library
App4Legal
❓ No 'dumb' automated workflows. Agentic workflows coming in 2025
✅ Basic contract management features available
✅ Full numbering support + AI auto-styling and formatting (coming soon)
✅ Workflow automation for legal processes
❓ Not integrated with legal and business tools beyond full .docx compatibility. If you can use a word doc with it, you can use Genie with it.
❌ No advanced legal styling or formatting capabilities mentioned, unlike Genie
❓ Just export to .docx and use your existing provider (request this feature)
✅ Integrates with various legal and business tools
✅ Company and user level reporting and analytics (on request)
✅ E-signature functionality available
✅ AI-powered document assembly
✅ Reporting and analytics features for law firms
✅ Market-leading AI-powered document editing: Ask Genie to edit your styling, reformat a table, or suggestion new clause text. As tracked changes, and private per party. Genie assists with and automates entire workflows, it doesn't just produce text responses.
✅ Basic document assembly capabilities
❓ Top-level AI Legal Research available as AI chat within the legal document, some prompting required (request this feature)
❌ No AI-powered document editing features, unlike Genie
✅ Negotiation tools for multi-party clause-by-clause agreements
❌ No built-in legal research capabilities, unlike Genie
❓ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities (request this feature)
❌ No specific negotiation support tools, unlike Genie
✅ Mobile-optimised Web App
❌ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities mentioned
❓ Coming soon (request this feature)
✅ Mobile app available for iOS and Android
✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts
❓ Integration with specific file storage services not confirmed
Coming soon - ✅ A library of your private clauses usable only by your legal team
❌ No community clause library available, unlike Genie
✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts
❌ No private clause library feature mentioned
✅ Bring your own library of private templates usable only by your legal team, within Genie
❌ No community template library available, unlike Genie
✅ Seamless integration with Microsoft Word, full styling, tables, formatting compatibility
✅ Firm-specific template management available
✅ No known issues (Pre-formatted templates, consistent formatting, tables, cross-version compatibility)
❓ Seamless Microsoft Word compatibility not confirmed
✅ Generally positive reviews
❓ Specific formatting pain points not mentioned
✅ Multiple support channels available including phone, whatsapp, email and live chat
✅ Generally positive user reviews, specific issues may vary
✅ Available with our custom plans
✅ Customer support available, responsiveness not specified
✅ For our custom plans, get setup within 3 days with a guided onboarding plan
❓ Availability of dedicated account managers not confirmed
✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company
✅ Guided setup and onboarding process
✅ Founded in 2017, deep AI integration from inception. A thick layer built with AI specialists and senior lawyers to ensure the models produce high quality legally customised outputs
✅ Established legal practice management software provider
✅ Our AI models are built using proprietary intelligence and research supported by UCL, Imperial College London and Oxford University. Rigorous testing process to ensure the outputs are accurate
❌ Founded in 2015, no significant AI integration mentioned, unlike Genie
✅ Over 110,000 companies have registered to use the Genie platform in total, including 11 FTSE100 firms, 20 Global200 firms, a number of top US banks, and two of the ‘big four’ UK supermarket chains.
❌ No information on AI accuracy or transparency, as AI capabilities are not a focus
✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models
✅ Used by law firms worldwide, specific numbers not provided
✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)
❓ Use of open-source or proprietary models not specified
✅ Suitable for in-house legal, law firms, and SMEs
✅ Cloud-based solution
✅ Built as a platform which is versatile across various industries. Focus areas are construction, manufacturing, consultancy and legal services.
✅ Primarily targets law firms
✅ 120+ jurisdictions including the UK, California, Texas, India, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, France, and Germany.
✅ Focuses on the legal industry
✅ Generous free plan. Transparent subscription plans to suit different needs. Custom plans for orgs handling more than 10 documents per month.
✅ Used by law firms in multiple countries
✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public
❓ Pricing details not publicly available, estimated at $6,000+ per user annually based on industry standards
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Generate quality, formatted contracts with AI
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Let our Legal AI make edits for you
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AI review
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