Advocate diary app: frequently asked questions

The Advocate Diary is an advocate diary app for lawyers in India. It helps you organise cases, the next date of hearing, reminders, documents, notes, fees and team work in one place, and it can update your cases automatically with court data.

Yes. The Advocate Diary is available now on Google Play for Android and on the Apple App Store for iPhone.

Yes. The Advocate Diary is free to download from Google Play and the App Store. Some limits, such as the number of firms, can depend on your plan.

It is for solo advocates, chambers and law firms practising in district courts, sessions courts and High Courts.

Your firm's information is kept to your firm, team members work with the cases they have access to, and your fee records are private to you. Read our Privacy Policy for full details.

Use the Contact page, or message our WhatsApp support on +91 92144 04396.

It means The Advocate Diary updates your case record using court data, so you do not need to search for each case and retype the details and next date of hearing yourself.

Yes, for anything critical. Court websites can be delayed or corrected, and the official record always prevails. Use the app as your working diary and confirm important dates with the court's own cause list or order.

Updates depend on the data a court publishes online, so coverage can vary between courts and case types. Contact our support team to check your court.

Yes. You can add hearings, remarks and notes to any case yourself, whether or not court data is available for it.

No. The Advocate Diary is an independent practice-management app. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any court, eCourts or any government body.

You can manage your full active board in the app. The number of firms and any other limits can depend on your plan, which is shown on your dashboard.

Yes. Search covers both cases and parties, so you can find a matter by either one.

Yes. Add your active matters as new cases, and then keep hearings, notes and fees up to date from that point.

Yes. You can update a case's status, and your dashboard shows your pending and disposed counts.

Yes. The diary has both week and month views, and you can move between dates easily.

Yes. Each case can hold any number of hearings, which together form its timeline.

Yes. A hearing can include its time, court hall, status, remarks and next date.

Hearing information can be kept current through the app's auto update with court data. You can always add or adjust entries yourself.

No. It is your personal agenda, built from the hearings in your diary. For item numbers, court changes and the final list, always check the court's official cause list.

Yes. Choose any day in the diary to see what is scheduled for it.

Team members can see hearings for the cases shared with or assigned to them.

Yes. Your agenda covers all of the hearings in your diary, whichever court they are listed in.

The app supports daily and weekly reminders ahead of your scheduled case hearings.

Check that notifications for The Advocate Diary are allowed in your phone's settings and that you are logged in. If the problem continues, contact support on WhatsApp.

Yes. Reminders are delivered as push notifications on both platforms.

No. Reminders are based on the dates in your diary. Always confirm the final listing with the court's official cause list.

Notifications cover hearing dates, tasks and diary updates in your account.

Yes. You can manage notification permission for the app in your phone's settings at any time.

They may be able to if your lock screen shows notification content. Use a screen lock and adjust your phone's lock-screen settings to protect client information.

Reminders are the daily and weekly alerts about upcoming hearings. Notifications are the wider set of alerts, which also include tasks and diary updates.

Log in on a new device with your registered mobile number to get back to your account. Contact support straight away if you think someone else may have access to your lost device.

No. Data sync keeps your own diary consistent across devices. Auto update with court data brings court information into your case records.

Yes. Your device needs a connection to send and receive updates.

Yes. Sign in with the same mobile number on each device.

Yes. Add them to your team and share access to the relevant case.

Not unless you allow it. Team members work with the cases assigned or shared with them, while admins can see across the firm.

No. Fee records are private to the advocate who owns them, even within the same firm.

Groups let you organise shared teams and case access, for example by practice area.

Open your profile and tap Switch firm. The cases, groups and team you see then follow the selected firm.

The number of firms available depends on your account's plan. Your dashboard shows how many you are using.

Each firm is its own workspace, so its cases, groups and team stay with that firm.

Yes. You can rename a firm or change its logo under My Firms.

You can attach case-related files such as PDFs and images.

People with access to the case in your firm. Only upload material you are authorised to store.

Yes. You can manage the documents attached to your cases, including removing ones you no longer need.

No. The app helps you organise working copies. Keep your original documents and official court records as your professional obligations require.

Yes. You can record remarks against a hearing, and general notes against the case.

Yes. Search covers both cases and parties.

Yes. Parties are linked to cases, which helps when one client has several matters.

Notes belong to the case, so people with access to that case in your firm may be able to see them. Fee records are kept separately and privately.

No. Fee records are private to the advocate who owns them, even when several advocates work on one case.

Yes. Log each payment with its date and mode, and the pending balance can be tracked against the agreed fee.

Yes. You can record a discount against the agreed fee for a case.

No. The fee book is a record you keep for yourself. It does not process client payments.

Tap Tasks in the home screen's quick actions, or open Tasks from your profile.

Anything that has to be done outside the hearing itself, such as drafting, filing, calling a client or collecting a certified copy.

The app's notifications cover tasks as well as hearing dates and diary updates.

No. Hearings are your court dates on the calendar. Tasks are the work you need to do around them.

No. The Advocate Diary uses your mobile number and a one-time password (OTP).

Check your number and network signal, wait a moment and try again. If it still does not arrive, contact support on WhatsApp or by phone.

No. Never share an OTP. Add colleagues to your firm as team members so that they have their own login.

Contact support so that we can help you with your account before you lose access to your old number.

See our account deletion page for the steps. It explains how to make a deletion request.

Go to Profile, scroll to Appearance and choose Dark.

It follows the light or dark setting on your phone.

No. It changes only how the app looks.

Yes. The appearance options are part of the app's settings.