mentro or MySimpleLog?
MySimpleLog from Lucerne does much of what mentro does: a learning journal with AI mapping, a competency spider chart, a prepared education report, Swiss hosting. The differences are the rhythm of documentation and what the competency picture rests on.
As of: August 14, 2026 · Sources
What MySimpleLog is
MySimpleLog AG (Lucerne, founded 2022, swiss made software label) offers a learning documentation platform with regular learning journal entries whose texts an AI maps to the competencies, with practical tasks, a competency spider chart and a pre-filled education report with PDF export «im bekannten Design der berufsbildung.ch» (in the familiar berufsbildung.ch design). With the Pauli and ReNovium publishing houses there are industry editions for kitchen and restaurant professions.
| Criterion | MySimpleLog | mentro |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation cadence | regular learning journal entries | activities in the moment, captured in seconds, plus guided learning journals |
| AI mapping to competencies | yes, from the journal texts | yes, from activities and journals; the AI does not assess |
| Competency visualisation | competency spider chart | competency picture from six sources, weighted by reliability |
| Education report | pre-filled from practical tasks, PDF «im bekannten Design der berufsbildung.ch» (in the familiar berufsbildung.ch design) | official SDBB format, prepared from the documentation, with an electronic signature from company and learner |
| External assessment and observations | practical tasks assessed by the trainer | observations, self and external assessment with quality levels and sign-off, external invitations |
| Languages | website DE/EN/FR/IT; the application’s language range is not documented | DE, EN, FR, IT (website and application) |
| Hosting | «ausschliesslich auf Servern in der Schweiz» (exclusively on servers in Switzerland); providers not named | Switzerland, with named providers: cloudscale.ch, peaknetworks, Infomaniak |
| References and adoption | no reference customers or user numbers public | pilot programme from August 2026, we don’t have public customer numbers yet either |
| Public product communication | most recent blog post dated September 5, 2024 | roadmap with current status and next steps public on the website |
In short
Of all five tools, MySimpleLog is the one most similar to mentro. If the learning journal as your main instrument works for you, that is the right choice. MySimpleLog supports regular learning journal entries. At mentro, activities come on top, captured in seconds in the moment of the work, and the competency picture rests on six weighted sources; observations count for more than self-assessments. At the end of the semester, the education report is ready in the official SDBB format, signed electronically by the company and the learner. And anyone who asks where the data lives gets names at mentro: cloudscale.ch, peaknetworks and Infomaniak, all in Switzerland.
Sources
As of: August 14, 2026. Third-party information from the providers’ public sources, retrieved on the date shown. “Not documented” does not mean the feature is missing. Partial comparison along the criteria shown.
- mysimplelog.ch: homepage
- mysimplelog.ch: costs page (hosting statement)
- mysimplelog.ch: learning journal (AI mapping, competency spider chart)
- mysimplelog.ch: education report (pre-filled, berufsbildung.ch design)
- mysimplelog.ch: about us / imprint
- mysimplelog.ch: blog (most recent post 05.09.2024)
- swiss made software: MySimpleLog AG
- Commercial register of the Canton of Lucerne: MySimpleLog AG
- mentro: features
- mentro: homepage (languages)
- mentro: hosting and security
- mentro: about us (roadmap, pilot)
MySimpleLog is an offering of MySimpleLog AG, Lucerne. mentro has no affiliation with MySimpleLog AG; the name identifies the product compared.
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