What a prosecutor's office should actually evaluate
Most "best app" lists rank features. For a prosecutor's office, fit matters more than the feature count, and it comes down to five questions:
Who is it built for? A tool that serves civil, defense, and prosecution equally is, by definition, not optimized for any of them.
What does it run on? iPad-only means buying and managing iPads. Web-native means it runs on whatever the office already owns.
How is it priced? Per-user monthly subscriptions are built for firms that bill by the hour, not offices on a county budget.
Does it fit the cadence? Setup that's worth it for a three-week trial is friction for a two-day trial you're running next week.
Does it cover the whole office? One license for the lead attorney is different from a deployment the whole staff can use.
The sections below read each option against those questions.
Pricing and platform details below are current as of June 2026; vendors change them, so confirm against each vendor's site before relying on a specific figure.
JuryPanel
Built by a working trial prosecutor, for prosecutor's offices specifically. Web-native, so it runs on the laptops and iPads the office already has — no App Store, no installs. Priced per attorney per year as an office-wide license: the whole staff gets access, not just the named attorneys. It renders the jurisdiction's actual system — strike-panel, struck-jury, stand-and-strike — and is designed for the volume and turnaround of a real trial docket.
Best fit: prosecutor's offices — county DA, state AG criminal divisions — that try cases constantly and need one system the whole office shares.
JuryBox
A web-and-iPad jury selection tool aimed at trial attorneys broadly — prosecution, defense, and civil. It tracks challenges, manages questionnaire data, and supports team collaboration, using a digital sticky-note metaphor. Pricing is per user, billed annually, with a free trial and public-sector discounts.
Best fit: individual trial attorneys and firms across practice types who want a polished, established general-purpose tool and are comfortable with per-user pricing.
JuryBoard
An iPad-first app (also runs on recent Macs) positioned as "built by trial lawyers, for trial lawyers." Drag-and-drop seating, visual juror tagging, strike tracking, and offline use are its calling cards. Pricing is per attorney, on a monthly or annual subscription.
Best fit: attorneys already standardized on iPads who want a native, offline-capable app and aren't price-sensitive on a per-attorney basis.
The iPad utilities (Jury in a Hurry, JuryBall, Empirical Jury Selection, and others)
A cluster of native iPad apps serves the broader trial bar, ranging from simple one-time-purchase strike trackers to analytics-driven tools. They tend to be single-attorney, single-device, and iPad-bound. For a solo practitioner who lives on an iPad, one of these can be enough. For an office coordinating across attorneys and devices, they generally aren't built for that.
Best fit: solo practitioners working primarily on an iPad who need a lightweight tool for occasional trials.
How to choose
If you're an individual attorney across mixed practice types, the general-purpose tools are designed for you. If you live on an iPad and try the occasional case, an iPad utility may be all you need.
But if you're a prosecutor's office — picking juries week after week, coordinating across deputies and support staff, running on a government budget and the computers you already own — the question isn't which general tool to adapt. It's whether to use one built for your job in the first place. That's the gap JuryPanel was built to fill: not a better tool for everyone, the right tool for prosecutors.
JuryPanel is the jury selection app built for prosecutor's offices — jurisdiction-aware seating, real-time strike tracking, office-wide licensing, and a price set for government budgets. If that's the office you run, see it work.
Request a demo and compare for yourself.