Free to download. Free to learn on.
Get the Studycase desktop app for Mac or Windows at no cost. Out of the box it runs the full demo tier and the courtcraft library. No signup, no card. When you're ready to run a live coached session on your own hearing, you unlock that inside the app.
The download
Demo hearings, the practice-pack walkthroughs, the moot ballot on demo rounds, and the whole courtcraft library, installed and offline-capable. The site sells you nothing; it gives you the app.
Live coached sessions
Point Studycase at a real recording or a live moot and the coach works the room with you in real time. That runs on our inference gateway, so it's credit-metered: bought inside the app, never on this page.
Prepare with a practice run
The app unlocks soon, but you can rehearse right now. Download our practice hearing, play it on your machine, and point the app's screen-share at the playback window. You'll watch the transcript and cited cards fire exactly the way they will on your real Zoom court date: a full dry run and a benchmark before it counts.
Download the practice hearing
Grab the 4.1 MB mp4 above (4 min 41 s, 720p). It's a fictional Texas Zoom plea hearing, safe to share, with nothing private in it.
Play it in any video player
Open it in QuickTime, VLC, your browser: anything works. Keep the audio on; the audio is what the coach listens to and coaches from.
Share the playback window
In the app, start capture and share the tab or window playing the video, with audio. See the capture guidance for the one toggle that matters per OS.
Watch the coach fire
The transcript streams in and cited cards surface in real time as the hearing moves through appearance, admonishments, and plea, exactly what your real hearing will feel like.
A dry run for your real Zoom date
Rehearse the capture-and-watch flow end to end so nothing about the setup is new when your actual hearing is the one on screen.
Benchmark the coach · classroom demo
A known-good, repeatable hearing to benchmark the coach against, plus a clean, shareable demo to run in front of a class or clinic.
Honest labeling: fictional parties (The State of Texas v. Reyes, an illustrative cause number), real Texas plea procedure (CCP Art. 26.13 / 27.13 / 1.15, Chapter 42A), and multi-voice text-to-speech: no real person, no real case, no privacy issue. Generated locally by us. Not legal advice.
Installing the Mac build (unsigned preview)
The current Mac build isn't notarized by Apple yet, so Gatekeeper will stop a normal double-click with "Studycase can't be opened." That's expected for an unsigned preview. Here's the one-time right-click walk around it. A signed, notarized build is on the way.
Open the disk image
Double-click the downloaded .dmg and drag Studycase into your Applications folder as usual.
Right-click → Open
In Applications, right-click (or Control-click) Studycase and choose Open; do not double-click. A dialog will now offer an Open button that a plain double-click doesn't.
Confirm once
Click Open. macOS remembers your choice, so from now on Studycase launches with a normal double-click.
shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/Studycase-*.dmg and compare the
output to the hash shown. If they don't match, don't open it.
[FOUNDER] Apple Developer signing + notarization is a founder gate (needs the paid Developer ID). Until it lands, the Mac build stays an unsigned preview and this right-click walkthrough is the supported install path.
Installing on Windows
The Windows build ships as a standard installer plus a portable no-install zip. Because it isn't code-signed yet, SmartScreen may show "Windows protected your PC" on first run.
Run the installer
Launch the downloaded .exe. If SmartScreen appears, click More info → Run anyway. This is the unsigned-build prompt, not a virus warning.
Or go portable
Prefer no install? Grab the portable .zip, unzip anywhere, and run Studycase.exe directly.
Verify the hash
In PowerShell: Get-FileHash .\Studycase-Setup.exe -Algorithm SHA256 and compare to the sha256 on the card above.
[FOUNDER] Authenticode code signing (and the smoke test on real Windows hardware) is a founder gate (see DESK-1). Until the signed build and a Windows smoke pass land, the Windows card stays in its honest "build in progress" state rather than shipping an untested artifact.
What live sessions cost (inside the app)
The download is free. Live coached sessions run on metered credits you buy in the app, never on this website. A rough idea of the pilot packs:
Run DocketBuster + Studycase across your program
For law schools, moot-court programs, trial-advocacy clinics, and firms: site licenses, seats for a whole class or section, an admin dashboard, and invoicing instead of per-seat cards. One agreement covers your students or your team on both products.
Contact us for a program license; a licensing contact opens with the payment flow (soon). Teachers & clinics can also see the pilot program on the Studycase page.
Pilot pricing is DRAFT, illustrative, and subject to change; every price is a founder decision (see METER-15). No charge happens on this site; purchase and billing live inside the app.