We read MyCase's privacy policy so you don't have to. What we found will make you question everything.
MyCase isn't a standalone company. It's part of a legal tech conglomerate.
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"We may disclose Personal Information to corporate affiliates."
— MyCase Privacy Policy
"When our Customers use our AI-powered tools, including MyCase IQ... information they submit to the Platform to be processed by the Large Language Model (LLM) provider(s)... Such information may include Sensitive Personal Information, including information relating to the cases or financial information of our Customers' clients."— MyCase Privacy Policy, "Collection and Use of Personal Information"
Translation: Your confidential client communications, case strategies, and financial information are being sent to third-party AI companies. In plain English. In their own privacy policy.
"You just read it, in their own words."
Don't single out MyCase for it. That's simply how cloud AI works. It lives on their servers, meters every question, and every word you feed it, your client's secrets, your strategy, your privileged work, lands on someone else's machine. A federal judge just ruled that kind of data isn't privileged anymore (US v. Heppner). So you'd be paying extra to hand your client's confidences to a system that can be subpoenaed.
Oasis doesn't work like that.
It runs on your Mac. Your data never leaves the building. Nothing trains a model. Nothing gets metered. And the assistant, First Mate, is free for life, because it costs me nothing to run. MyCase can't match free. Not because they won't. Because every answer they give costs them money, and every answer mine gives costs me nothing. That isn't a pricing trick. It's the difference between renting a mainframe and owning your computer.
Direct quotes. No editorializing needed.
"Medical information"
They collect medical information. About you. From your billing software.
"Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes"
Your billing software is building a psychological profile on you.
"cross-context behavioral advertising"
They track you across every website you visit. Not just on their platform.
"Geolocation data"
They know where you are. Physically. In the real world.
"We may disclose the categories of Personal Information... to advertising networks, social networks"
Your data flows to advertising networks. You're the product.
"We currently do not respond to DNT browser signals"
They ignore "Do Not Track" requests. Your privacy preferences don't matter.
"We do not have actual knowledge that we have sold or shared personal information of consumers under 16 years of age."
Read that again. They didn't say "we don't sell data." They said they don't have actual knowledge of selling children's data specifically.
That's a legal admission that they ARE selling data. They're just not checking ages.
| What Matters | MyCase | TimeNet Law |
|---|---|---|
| Where's your data? | Their servers + AI providers | Your Mac. Period. |
| AI training on your files? | Yes (explicitly stated) | Impossible |
| Built-in AI | Paid cloud add-on, metered | Free for life, on your Mac (Oasis) |
| AI privilege after US v. Heppner | At risk (cloud + LLM providers) | Stays on your device |
| Unlimited undo + restore | No | Yes, even after you quit |
| Shared with ad networks? | Yes | No data leaves your machine |
| Cross-site tracking? | Yes | No |
| Psychological profiling? | Yes (in their policy) | No |
| Works offline? | No | Yes — 100% |
| Where it runs | Any browser (and their cloud) | Native Mac, iPhone & iPad apps |
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription forever | One-time purchase |
| Data portability | Request required | It's already on your machine |
What you'll pay. What you'll give up.
One Click Billing. Smart rounding. Non-destructive timers. Split billing by party. Text expansion before TextExpander was even a product. I shipped every one of those first, then watched the big cloud apps roll out their own version a year or two later. That's the tell. I lead. They follow.
But here's where they can never follow.
Private AI on your own machine. A complete, permanent history of every change, restorable with one click, even after you quit and relaunch. Working on a plane with no Wi-Fi. Your data that never leaves your Mac. You cannot bolt any of that onto a cloud product. Not with a sprint. Not with a roadmap. Not with a private-equity war chest.
Your client files. Your billing records. Your machine. No AI training. No ad networks. No psychological profiles.
Download Free TrialYes. Every quote on this page is directly from MyCase's official privacy policy. We encourage you to read it yourself. Then compare it to ours.
Yes. TimeNet Law can import your client and matter data. Most attorneys complete their migration in under 2 hours. You'll work directly with the developer to make sure everything transfers correctly.
Ask yourself: do you need cloud access, or have you been told you need it? TimeNet Law works on your Mac. Your data syncs through iCloud if you want it to. You can access your files from anywhere — they're YOUR files.
By never having access to it in the first place. Your data lives on your Mac. It never touches our servers. We can't sell what we never see. That's not a policy — it's architecture.