The official eCourts app tells you where a case stands. The real question is whether you need it to tell you first.
The best court case tracking app in India depends on the job. The official eCourts Services app is free and covers district courts and most High Courts. Other apps add pushed alerts on WhatsApp or email, cause-list tracking, multi-court portfolios and AI order summaries. We compared 7 of them on what each one publishes.
A court case tracking app watches a case on the official court record and tells you when something changes, so you do not have to keep checking the portal yourself. Some only show status when you ask. Others push the change to you.
Disclosure: eCourtsIndia publishes this blog and makes one of the products compared.
Last updated: 3 November 2026. Every competitor fact below was read on that date from the vendor’s own website or app-store listing.
Disclosure: this post is published by eCourtsIndia, which makes the eCourtsIndia app, web platform, AI Clerk and LegalCheck. eCourtsIndia (ecourtsindia.com) is an independent, non-government platform. It is not the Government’s eCourts portal (ecourts.gov.in) and is not affiliated with any court. We have tried to be fair to every product here, including where another app does something better than ours.
Key takeaways
- If you follow one or two cases, the free official eCourts Services app may be all you need. It is built under the e-Committee of the Supreme Court, shows status, orders and cause lists, and keeps a My Cases list.
- The main thing the official app does not state is a pushed alert. Its listing describes looking up and refreshing cases; the official push-free option is an SMS that returns status when you ask.
- eCourtsIndia, Provakil and Bharat.Law all publish WhatsApp and email alerts. Court Click describes in-app notifications. Legistify describes email alerts.
- Among the paid trackers, three show prices you can buy at without a sales call: eCourtsIndia (per tracked case), Bharat.Law (monthly plans) and Court Click (in-app purchases). Provakil shows prices only in its iOS listing; Legistify prices on request.
- Moving a big case list is the hidden cost. eCourtsIndia imports the official app’s export, up to 25,000 cases per run; Bharat.Law offers CSV import.
Which court case tracking app should you pick?
Start from the job, not the brand. A litigant with one matter and a legal department with three hundred need different things.
| If you need | Best fit | Why (from its own pages, 3 Nov 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Free, official status for one or two cases | eCourts Services app (official) | Free; case status, orders, cause lists and a My Cases list; SMS status on request |
| Low-cost WhatsApp and email alerts across the Supreme Court, High Courts and district courts | eCourtsIndia | Pay only for tracked cases: ₹5 per case every 30 days, ₹0.50 per delivered alert per channel |
| To move a long My Cases list off the official app | eCourtsIndia | Imports the eCourts Services app export, or pasted CNRs, up to 25,000 cases per run |
| Enterprise litigation tracking with consumer, tax and RERA forums | Provakil or Legistify | Provakil states 19,000+ forums; Legistify states 10000+ courts; both sell to companies, pricing not self-serve on their websites |
| Tracking inside an AI research and drafting workspace | Bharat.Law | Court monitoring, research and documents in one product; plans from ₹599 a month billed annually |
| Item-number alerts and a live display board for your court | Court Click | Custom alerts before your item is called; live display board; strongest in the states it lists |
| A simple diary where you type the next date yourself | A manual diary app (AdvoDesk, Advocate Diary) | Cheap or free, works offline in spirit, but does not sync with eCourts |
How did we compare these apps?
We used only what each company publishes about itself, on its own website or app-store listing, read on 3 November 2026. We did not test speed or accuracy. “Not stated” means we could not find a feature on the pages we read, not that it does not exist.
We compared 7 products: the official eCourts Services app and portal, eCourtsIndia, Provakil, Bharat.Law, Court Click, Legistify and a manual case-diary app. We also checked LegalKart, Lawyered, SupremeToday and CaseMine, but their own pages described consultations, roadside legal help, legal news or research alerts rather than court case tracking. Store ratings are as shown that day.
If you are comparing judgment libraries rather than trackers, our earlier guide to Indian Kanoon, SCC Online, Manupatra and eCourtsIndia covers that side.
Feature matrix: how do the 7 apps compare?
8 features, 7 products. Read across for one app, or down a column to see who publishes a feature.
| App | Courts covered (as stated) | Alerts and channels | Cause-list tracking | Orders and AI summaries | Portfolio and bulk import | Tribunals | Price (published) | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eCourts Services (official, NIC) | District and taluka courts and “most of the High Courts” | No push alert stated; SMS status on request (ECOURTS <CNR> to 9766899899) | Yes: cause list for selected courts; advocate Date Case List | Order PDFs by link; no AI | My Cases list; backup and restore export | Not stated | Free | Web portal, Android, iOS |
| eCourtsIndia (our product) | Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, district and taluka courts, 18 kinds of tribunal (search) | WhatsApp and email, minutes after the record changes; Chrome extension badge; no SMS | Free daily lists for district and taluka courts, searchable by lawyer, litigant or judge | Orders on case pages; AI “Read an order” ₹2; AI Clerk answers from your file | Client-wise AI Clerk; import up to 25,000 cases from the eCourts app or pasted CNRs | Searchable; alert tracking is for SC, HC and district cases | Search free; tracking ₹5 per case per 30 days; plans from ₹250 + GST a month | Web, Android, iPhone, Chrome extension, API and MCP |
| Provakil | 19,000+ forums (website); 10,000+ courts and registries (store listings) | Web dashboard, mobile app, email and WhatsApp | Personalised daily causelists by email and WhatsApp, with supplementary and advance lists | Auto-fetches orders, judgments and office reports; AI on orders not stated | Portfolio workspace; assisted data migration and legacy case imports (enterprise) | NCLT, NGT, RERA, DRT, CESTAT, APTEL and others | Not on website; iOS in-app purchases ₹9,900, ₹19,900 and ₹29,900 (term not stated) | Web, Android, iOS |
| Bharat.Law | 15,247 courts and forums: Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, 14,000+ district courts | Email, WhatsApp and in-app push, configurable per alert type | Automatic cause-list alert the day before | Order capture with download link, typically within 30 minutes; AI research and documents in the same workspace | Portfolio view; bulk import via CSV | NCLT, NCLAT, NGT, SAT, CESTAT, DRT; consumer forums being added | Plus ₹599 a month billed annually (₹899 monthly) to Teams ₹2,999; Enterprise custom; GST not stated | Web; no mobile app linked from its site |
| Court Click | Varies by court: Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and the Supreme Court listed | In-app notifications; custom alert before your item is called | Automated daily causelist from your enrolment number; live display board | AI summary and translation into regional languages; certified copy delivery | Multi-case and team management; bulk import not stated | Not stated | In-app purchases from ₹9 to ₹3,000 (iOS) | Android, iOS |
| Legistify | “Integration with 10000+ courts” | Email; orders, judgments, hearing dates; new case alerts; Google Calendar sync | Personalised causelists (Play listing) | Orders and judgments alerts; AI on orders not stated | Enterprise case portfolio; bulk import not stated | Not listed by name | On request | Web, Android, iOS |
| Manual diary (AdvoDesk) | Whatever you type in | Reminders for dates you enter | No | No | Your own list | No | Free download | Android |
What does each app do best?
Each card uses the vendor’s own description. Ratings are as the stores showed them on 3 November 2026.
1. eCourts Services app and portal (official)
The official app is developed by the National Informatics Centre under the eCourts Project, under the aegis of the e-Committee, Supreme Court of India. Its Google Play listing says it “provides case information from Subordinate and most of the High Courts in India” and shows 1Cr+ downloads and a 3.5 rating from 76.4K reviews; the iOS listing shows 2.9 from 1.4K ratings. The web side lives at services.ecourts.gov.in, and NJDG is a pendency statistics dashboard rather than a tracker.
Strengths, as published:
- Free, and it is the source other apps read from.
- Search by CNR, case number, party, advocate (name or bar code), filing number, FIR number, Act and case type.
- My Cases with date-wise and district-wise views, a calendar, cause-list generation and backup and restore.
- Case status by return SMS: send ECOURTS, a space and the CNR to 9766899899.
Worth knowing: The listing does not describe push alerts, client grouping or AI summaries, and the Android app needs Android 13 or above. Some recent reviews report loading problems, so keep the web portal as a fallback.
Choose it if: you track a few matters, you are happy to open the app to check, and you want the official source with no account and no cost.
2. eCourtsIndia (web, Android, iPhone, WhatsApp and email)
Our own product, so read this card with that in mind. eCourtsIndia indexes 32 crore+ court and tribunal records from the Supreme Court, all 25 High Courts, district and taluka courts in 36 states and union territories, and 18 tribunal families. Search, case pages and cause lists are free; tracking runs on credits.
Strengths, as published:
- WhatsApp and email alerts within minutes of a new order, date, bench change, transfer, IA or disposal. Setup is in our case alerts guide.
- Bulk import of the official app’s My Cases export or pasted CNRs, up to 25,000 cases per run; only CNRs leave your device.
- The AI Clerk keeps a file per client, reads orders (₹2 each) and answers questions with citations.
- Free daily district and taluka cause lists, searchable by lawyer, litigant or judge (see how to read a cause list).
- A REST API and an MCP server with 22 tools, with ₹200 free API credits on signup. LegalCheck, a separate product, screens a person or company.
Worth knowing: Per our pricing page: plans from ₹250 + 18% GST a month, and ₹100 of free wallet credit monthly while our Chrome extension is active. No SMS alerts. Tribunal cases are searchable but cannot be tracked for alerts at the time of writing, and dated cause lists cover district courts only. Ratings: 4.0 from 404 reviews on Google Play (1L+ downloads) and 2.0 from 9 ratings on the iPhone App Store, where users reported crashes.
Choose it if: you want pushed WhatsApp and email alerts across court tiers at a per-case price, you are moving a long list out of the official app, or you want AI to read the orders for you.
3. Provakil
Provakil sells legal operations software to advocates and corporate legal teams. Its case-updates page says it monitors “19,000+ Indian courts and tribunals” through the web dashboard, mobile app, email and WhatsApp; its store listings say 10,000+ courts and registries. Google Play shows 4.1 from 351 reviews and 10K+ downloads; iOS shows 4.3 from 131 ratings.
Strengths, as published:
- Personalised daily causelists on email and WhatsApp, with supplementary and advance lists.
- New case alerts, and appeal alerts when an opponent files in a higher court.
- Named coverage across consumer, tax and RERA forums, NCLT, NGT, DRT, CESTAT, APTEL and IP registries.
Worth knowing: No price appears on provakil.com. The iOS listing shows in-app purchases of ₹9,900, ₹19,900 and ₹29,900 without a term. Bulk onboarding is assisted migration for enterprises.
Choose it if: you run a corporate or firm litigation book that spans many forums, including registries and consumer and tax bodies, and you want a vendor to onboard it for you.
4. Bharat.Law
Bharat.Law is an AI legal workspace for lawyers, chambers, firms and in-house teams, and court monitoring is one module. Its court-monitoring page states 15,247 courts and forums connected, orders typically detected within 30 minutes of upload, and alerts by email, WhatsApp and in-app push. It positions itself as a combined research, document and tracking workspace.
Strengths, as published:
- Cause-list alert the day before, bench-change and adjournment tracking, and keyword monitoring.
- Bulk import via CSV and alert routing to different team members.
- Named tribunals: NCLT, NCLAT, NGT, SAT, CESTAT and DRT, with consumer forums being added.
- Published plans: Plus ₹599 a month billed annually or ₹899 monthly, Pro ₹1,099 or ₹1,499, Teams ₹2,999 or ₹3,999 for three seats, Enterprise custom.
Worth knowing: There is no free plan for lawyers; the free trial is on Plus only. We did not find a Play Store or App Store app linked from its site, so treat it as a web product. GST is not stated next to the prices.
Choose it if: you want tracking to live inside a research, drafting and document workspace that a whole chamber shares, and a flat monthly fee suits you better than paying per case.
5. Court Click
Court Click, by Digilaw Legal Software, began in Kerala and its Play listing now names courts in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, along with the Supreme Court. Its website says coverage, features and update timing vary by court. It has the best store ratings in this group: 4.6 from 869 reviews and 1L+ downloads on Google Play, and 4.7 from 155 ratings on iOS.
Strengths, as published:
- Automated daily causelist fetched from your advocate enrolment number.
- Live court display board and custom alerts before your item is called.
- AI summary and regional-language translation of orders, and certified copy delivery.
Worth knowing: Alerts are app notifications; WhatsApp is mentioned for support only. The iOS listing shows in-app purchases from ₹9 to ₹3,000. Tribunals and bulk import are not stated.
Choose it if: you practise mainly in the High Courts and districts it lists, you live by the board and the item number, and you want everything inside one phone app.
6. Legistify
Legistify is an AI legal operations platform for enterprises, with litigation management alongside contracts and compliance. Its pricing page states “integration with 10000+ courts”, and its litigation pages describe auto-updates for orders, judgments and hearing dates, email alerts, new case alerts and Google Calendar sync. Its Play listing shows 4.5 from 31 reviews and 1K+ downloads.
Strengths, as published:
- New case discovery, so a company hears about a filing against it early.
- Personalised causelists, per its Play listing.
Worth knowing: Pricing is on request. WhatsApp alerts, AI on orders, named tribunals and bulk import are not stated.
Choose it if: you are an in-house team buying one platform for litigation, contracts and compliance, and you expect a sales-led rollout.
7. Manual case-diary apps (AdvoDesk, Advocate Diary)
The most downloaded diary apps for Indian advocates on Google Play are plain diaries. Advocate Diary: AdvoDesk shows 4.0 from 322 reviews and 50K+ downloads; Advocate Diary for Daily Case shows 3.7 from 126 reviews, 50K+ downloads and a 30-day free trial. Both describe adding cases and updating the next hearing date yourself.
Strengths, as published:
- Simple, quick and cheap.
- Reminders for dates you enter.
- Useful for chamber notes that never reach a court record.
Worth knowing: Neither listing describes syncing with eCourts, so a date the court changes will not reach you unless you change it.
Choose it if: you want a personal diary and are happy to update it after every hearing.
When is the official eCourts app enough?
More often than app makers like to admit. If you are a litigant with one district court case, the official app or portal, plus a call to your advocate after each date, covers the essentials at no cost. The steps are in our guide to checking your court case status online.
- One or two cases, one court: My Cases and a weekly check is enough.
- Occasional checks: the free SMS (ECOURTS, a space and your CNR to 9766899899) returns status on demand.
- You need the official word: only the court’s own record is official, and certified copies come from the court.
A tracker starts to pay for itself when a missed date would hurt: many cases, several courts, or a team that needs one shared list.
How do you track a case on eCourtsIndia in 3 steps?
Find the case, switch on alerts, keep a small balance. It takes about a minute for one case.
1. Find the case
Open ecourtsindia.com/search and paste your 16-character CNR, or search by party, advocate or case number. CNR Number Decoded explains the format, and the search guide covers every filter.
2. Enable alerts
On the case page, click Enable alerts, map the case to a client (your own name is fine), choose Directly representing or Tracking only, and click Map Case.
3. Keep credits topped up
Tracking is ₹5 per case every 30 days and each delivered alert ₹0.50 per channel. Use the free monthly wallet credit from the Chrome extension, or a plan, from the pricing page.
Already have dozens of cases in the official app? Export My Cases and import them in bulk, then work from one pending-cases dashboard. If you use Claude or ChatGPT, you can connect the eCourtsIndia MCP server to ask about your cases in chat. The status words in each alert are explained in the case status dictionary. Tribunal matters can be searched and filed under a client (see the NCLT and NCLAT guide), but cannot be tracked for alerts yet.
What does this comparison not mean?
- It is not a test of accuracy or speed. “Within 30 minutes” or “within minutes” is a vendor’s stated aim, not our measurement.
- “Not stated” is not “not available”. It means we did not find it on the vendor’s own pages on 3 November 2026. Ask the vendor.
- Court counts are not comparable. “Forums”, “courts”, “court complexes” and “courts and registries” are counted differently by each company.
- A store rating is a crowd signal, not an audit. Ratings move every week and mix old and new versions.
- No third-party app is an official source. Status, dates and orders shown by any app, ours included, should be checked against the court’s own record before you rely on them.
- A tracker is not a background check. Watching a known case is different from finding every case against a person; that is what a court record check does.
Sources and method
Last verified 3 November 2026. Each page below was read on that date. Prices are as listed, for a single user, and may exclude GST unless stated.
- Official eCourts Services app, Google Play listing and App Store listing, read 3 November 2026.
- eCourts portal home page with the SMS service and statistics, ecourts.gov.in; services.ecourts.gov.in; NJDG, read 3 November 2026.
- eCourtsIndia pricing page, MCP server page, Google Play listing and App Store listing, read 3 November 2026; feature detail from our live guides to case alerts, bulk import, the AI Clerk and cause lists.
- Provakil case updates page, enterprise page, Google Play and App Store listings, read 3 November 2026.
- Bharat.Law court monitoring page and pricing page, read 3 November 2026.
- Court Click website, features page, Google Play and App Store listings, read 3 November 2026.
- Legistify pricing page, case alert page and Google Play listing, read 3 November 2026.
- Diary apps: Advocate Diary: AdvoDesk and Advocate Diary for Daily Case on Google Play, read 3 November 2026.
- Checked and not included as trackers: LegalKart, Lawyered, SupremeToday and CaseMine, read 3 November 2026.
Where a website and a store listing differ, we show both. Vendors can write to support@ecourtsindia.com and we will correct anything out of date. Other product names are trademarks of their owners.
Frequently asked questions
Which is the best eCourts app in India?
It depends on how many cases you follow. For one or two matters, the free official eCourts Services app is enough. For pushed WhatsApp and email alerts at a per-case price, eCourtsIndia fits. Provakil and Legistify suit enterprises, Bharat.Law suits a shared AI workspace, and Court Click suits advocates who live by the item number. Compare them in our earlier platform comparison too.
Is the eCourts Services app free and official?
Yes. It is developed by the National Informatics Centre under the eCourts Project, under the aegis of the e-Committee of the Supreme Court of India, and it is free. It shows case status, orders and cause lists for district courts and most High Courts, and keeps a My Cases list. The same services are on the eCourts Services portal.
Can I get court case updates on WhatsApp?
Yes, from some third-party apps. eCourtsIndia, Provakil and Bharat.Law all publish WhatsApp alerts alongside email. The official app does not state push alerts; it offers case status by return SMS when you ask. On eCourtsIndia, each delivered alert costs ₹0.50 per channel. Our case alerts guide shows the setup step by step.
How do I move my cases out of the eCourts Services app?
Open My Cases in the official app and choose Export. That writes your saved cases to a text file. On eCourtsIndia, open AI Clerk, click Import from eCourts app and upload the file, or paste CNR numbers instead. Up to 25,000 cases go in per run, and only the CNRs leave your device. The bulk import guide walks through every screen.
Is there a free alternative to the eCourts Services app?
For searching, yes. eCourtsIndia’s case search, case pages and daily district cause lists are free. Pushed tracking is paid on most apps. On eCourtsIndia it costs ₹5 per case every 30 days plus ₹0.50 per alert per channel, and the Chrome extension adds ₹100 of free wallet credit each month while it is active. Current rates are on the pricing page.
Do case tracking apps cover tribunals like NCLT and DRT?
Some say so. Provakil names NCLT, NGT, RERA, DRT, CESTAT and APTEL, and Bharat.Law names NCLT, NCLAT, NGT, SAT, CESTAT and DRT. eCourtsIndia lets you search 18 tribunal families, but its alert tracking currently covers Supreme Court, High Court and district court cases. For tribunal records, see our NCLT and NCLAT case status guide.
What is the difference between a lawyer diary app and a case tracking app?
A diary app stores what you type: the case, the client and the next date you write in after each hearing. A tracking app reads the court record and updates itself when the court changes a date or uploads an order. Diaries are cheap and simple; trackers save you from a date you missed. Our guide to checking case status online explains the official record.
Are third-party court apps official sources?
No. eCourtsIndia, Provakil, Bharat.Law, Court Click and Legistify are private products that read public court records. Only the court’s own record is official, and certified copies come from the court. Use an app to stay informed, then confirm anything important on the official portal using the case’s CNR. CNR Number Decoded explains that number.
Important: This comparison is based only on what each company publishes on its own website or app-store listing, read on 3 November 2026. Features, coverage, ratings and prices change, so check each vendor before you buy. We did not test the accuracy or speed of any product. eCourtsIndia publishes this post and makes one of the products compared. eCourtsIndia is a private legal-technology platform and is not affiliated with any court, the e-Committee of the Supreme Court or the Government of India; its data mirrors public court records and is not an official or certified source. This is general information, not legal advice.
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