Docket Enterprise vs DocketCalendar

Docket Enterprise is a docketing and legal calendaring application for tracking critical dates and managing tasks. The vendor positions it for Outlook-driven law firms and supports litigation and transactional practice groups. Master, group, and individual calendars appear in a centralized view with structured deadline tracking. Scheduling templates can define related activities, date offsets, dependent tasks, recipients, and attachments. Parent and child matter scheduling coordinates related matters and represented parties. The application runs as an Outlook plug-in or standalone program, with meeting-organizer synchronization, two-way task updates, Free/Busy search, notifications, and activity logging. Automated deadline calculation and a court-rule library are listed; CalendarRules can supply subscription-based rule calculations and updates. PacerPro and UniCourt integrations provide court updates and related documents inside the application. A mobile app for iOS and Android supports schedule and matter viewing plus activity or task creation. Docket Enterprise is on-premise and cannot be deployed in the cloud. Pricing is on request.

DocketCalendar is a cloud-based web calendar for law firms that calculates court-rule deadlines and creates events on Outlook or Google Calendar. It can also operate as a stand-alone calendar. When dates change, it recalculates deadlines and updates or removes the related events. The rules library covers over 2,200 court rule sets nationwide; CalendarRules-powered rules are generally updated at the beginning of each month and sooner for significant changes. Custom deadline reports can be printed, exported to Excel or CSV, or copied into emails. The service stores calendaring data at case, trigger, and event levels, and settled matters can be archived. Subscriptions include unlimited support and training, with user-guide content, phone help, and screen-share sessions. Users can email the Rules Team for no-charge clarification about deadlines, counting methods, holidays, and results. The web service requires no installation or browser plugin. There is no free plan, but a free trial is available. Listed plans are $15 a month billed per court or per calendar, and $20 a month billed per user.