Comparison for higher education · as of November 5, 2026
LehrPuls or Mentimeter?
Mentimeter, from Sweden, is a cloud service for presentations with live polls: slides, word clouds, scales, and audience questions run through the instructor's account with the vendor. LehrPuls is a program for macOS and Windows that runs on the instructor's laptop; participants answer in the browser of their smartphone, and questions and answers stay in the instructor's own data folder. This comparison shows, area by area, where the two are level and where they differ.
The basis is the competitive analysis for LehrPuls 1.22 dated November 9, 2026. The information on Mentimeter comes from its public product, help, and pricing pages, last checked on November 5, 2026; the current state at the vendor is what counts. Every LehrPuls feature named here is included in every license.
At a glance
| Based in | Smallest education plan per year | Free plan | Export in the free plan |
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| Mentimeter | Sweden | $108 (Basic) | 50 participants per month | no |
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| LehrPuls | Austria | €79 one-time (up to 500 participants) | trial version, complete, up to 6 participants | yes, in every license |
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Comparison by area
Legend: ✓ available · ◐ limited, partial, or only as a workaround · ✗ not available · € only in paid or higher plans · by design = a deliberate decision by LehrPuls. The rows match the full analysis, where all ten services stand side by side.
Question types
| Question type | Mentimeter | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Multiple choice, one correct | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple choice, several correct, with partial credit | ◐ | ✓ or all-or-nothing |
| Poll, including multiple selection | ✓ | ✓ with “Other” |
| Open question | ✓ | ✓ |
| Short answer with automatic matching | ✓ | ✓ as fill-in-the-gaps |
| Number with tolerance | ✗ | ✓ with unit |
| Estimate (median, reference value) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ordering with a solution | ✗ | ✓ |
| Matching / categorizing | ✗ | ✓ also with images |
| Fill-in-the-gaps | ✗ | ✓ |
| Gap with a choice list | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scale, one statement | ✓ | ✓ eleven templates |
| Scale with several statements | ✓ | ✓ up to eight |
| Word cloud | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ranking without a solution | ✓ | ✓ |
| Point budget | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image question: place a point | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image question: correct area | ✗ | ✓ up to ten |
| Labeling an image | ✗ | ✓ |
| Images as answer options | ✓ | ✓ |
| 2×2 grid | ✓ | ✓ |
| Idea wall with grouping and voting | ◐ | ✓ |
| Sketch as an answer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Photo or file as an answer | ✗ | ✓ up to five |
| Audio or video answer | ✗ | ✗ |
| Formula input with equivalence recognition | ✗ | ✓ |
| Formulas (LaTeX) in question and answers | ✗ | ✓ |
| Ask for confidence in the answer | ✗ | ✓ |
| Poll as a segment (segmentation) | ◐ | ✓ |
| Question block with a shared scenario | ✗ | ✓ |
| Peer Instruction with two rounds | ✗ | ✓ |
| Notice with link, QR code, and response buttons | ◐ | ✓ |
| Highlighting text passages | ✗ | ✗ |
| Interactive video | ◐ | ✗ |
Projector, presentation, and control
| Feature | Mentimeter | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Projector view with code and QR always visible | ✓ | ✓ and Wi-Fi QR |
| Presenter view (next question, notes, controls) | ✓ € | ✓ |
| Operable copy of the wall with zoom | ✗ | ✓ |
| Hide results until the reveal | ✓ | ✓ default |
| Growing chart while collecting | ✓ | ✓ switch per question |
| Comparing two runs (before – after) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Show an earlier question from the archive without leaving the flow | ◐ | ✓ |
| Several questions open at once (block, stations) | ◐ | ✓ |
| Control by clicker and keyboard | ◐ | ✓ |
| Smartphone as a remote | ✓ € | ✓ |
| Overlay on another presentation without the cloud | ✗ | ✓ overlay |
| Add-in for PowerPoint, Keynote, or Google Slides | ✓ | ✗ by design |
| Integration with Teams, Zoom, or Webex | ✓ | ◐ relay and window sharing |
| Random wheel | ✗ | ✓ with fairness memory |
| Leaderboard / podium | ✓ | ◐ podium on demand |
| Emoji reactions | ✗ | ✗ |
| Discussion round without devices (plenary answer) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Boards for scenario, groups, and breaks | ◐ | ✓ |
Live operation, groups, and audience questions
| Feature | Mentimeter | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Questions wall with upvoting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approval before display | ✓ € | ✓ |
| Downvotes, labels, threshold | ✗ | ✓ |
| Word filter against insults | ✗ | ✓ |
| Written reply to the person asking | ✗ | ✓ |
| Messages and files to everyone, groups, individuals | ✗ | ✓ |
| Participant posts with a photo or PDF | ✗ | ✓ |
| Close joining | ✗ | ✓ |
| Remove a single device | ✗ | ✓ |
| Group work with a group answer | ✗ | ✓ three forms |
| Station work, group planning across the semester | ✗ | ✓ |
| Instant question without preparation | ◐ | ✓ |
| Add questions during the session | ◐ | ✓ |
| Suspend and resume over days | ◐ | ✓ |
| Manual grading during the session | ✗ | ✓ |
| Exclude an answer or question from the analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Paper mode without participant devices | ✗ | ◐ discussion round |
Analytics and reports
| Feature | Mentimeter | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Report per session with distribution per question | ✓ | ✓ |
| Results per person | ✓ € | ✓ |
| Analysis across several sessions and semesters | ◐ | ✓ |
| Analysis by topic (topic tree) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Learning curve per course | ✗ | ✓ |
| Time analysis, planned versus actual | ✗ | ✓ |
| Attendance | ◐ | ✓ without location tracking |
| Manual grading afterward | ✗ | ✓ with comment |
| Report as PDF | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export to Excel or CSV | ✓ € | ✓ every license |
| Long format with codebook, filter by course, topic, time | ✗ | ✓ |
| Anonymized export with minimum size | ◐ | ✓ |
| Recap for learners | ✗ | ✓ without an e-mail address |
| Audience questions archived per session | ✓ | ✓ |
Question analysis and test theory
| Feature | Mentimeter | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Share correct per question | ✓ | ✓ as difficulty index |
| Discrimination per question | ✗ | ✓ |
| Distractor analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Quality map across all uses of a question | ✗ | ✓ |
| Longitudinal view of the same question across sessions | ◐ | ✓ without personal reference |
| Error rate per gap, item, position | ✗ | ✓ |
| Peer Instruction learning gain, round 1 → 2 | ✗ | ✓ |
| Check whether the solution can be guessed | ✗ | ✓ |
| Quality hints while writing the question | ✗ | ✓ |
| Flag for difficult questions | ✗ | ✓ |
| Breakdown by a preceding question | ✓ € | ✓ |
| Grouping open answers | ✓ | ◐ by hand, AI via MCP |
Interfaces, import, and integration
| Feature | Mentimeter | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Read-only results interface for every instructor | ◐ € | ✓ every license |
| Access for AI assistants (MCP) | ◐ creation only | ✓ local, with results data |
| Learning platform integration (LTI) with grade passback | ✓ | ✗ by design |
| Sign-in with the university account (SSO) | ◐ | ✗ no account needed |
| Import questions from a spreadsheet | ✗ | ✓ Excel, ODS, CSV |
| Import from Moodle, GIFT, Aiken | ✗ | ✓ |
| Questions from documents via AI | ✓ | ◐ prompt route, no network traffic |
| Export questions and import them again | ◐ | ✓ |
| Co-editing content in a team | ✓ € | ◐ in turns via the baton, no account (since 1.21) |
| Import participant lists | ✗ | ✓ |
| Built-in AI with data sent to the vendor | ✓ | ✗ by design |
| Open source or self-hostable | ✗ | ◐ runs locally without a server |
Participant side
| Feature | Mentimeter | LehrPuls |
|---|
| Join without an account or app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Anonymous, pseudonym, or name selectable per session | ◐ € | ✓ four ways |
| Join only via the course list | ✗ | ✓ without an account |
| Switching devices mid-session | ✗ | ✓ via QR code |
| Participation by SMS | ✗ | ✗ |
| Group's status on every device | ✗ | ✓ |
| Recap with one's own answer and the solution | ✗ | ✓ up to 14 days on the device |
| Answering asynchronously over days | ✓ | ✗ by design |
| Accessibility statement (WCAG) | ◐ | ✓ WCAG 2.2 AA, partially conformant |
| Content in several language versions | ◐ | ✓ equal-ranking per question |
When Mentimeter is the better choice
- Polls should be part of a presentation with content slides — as an add-in for PowerPoint or Google Slides, or directly in Teams and Zoom.
- Built-in AI should create presentations from uploaded documents and group open answers.
- A team should edit presentations and folders together and see the results in a shared space (Pro and Enterprise plans).
- Integration with the learning platform (LTI) is a must, and participants should also be able to answer asynchronously over several days.
When LehrPuls is the better choice
- Answers must not leave the university: no account, no cloud, no data processing agreement on your own network; the online route via the relay is end-to-end encrypted.
- You teach number- and formula-heavy subjects: numbers with tolerance and unit, LaTeX in question and answers, formula input with equivalence recognition, ordering and matching with a solution — not available in Mentimeter.
- You want to know whether your questions work: difficulty index, discrimination, distractor analysis, and the same question tracked across semesters — not available in Mentimeter.
- Raw data export, results per person, presenter view, and the smartphone remote are reserved for paid Mentimeter plans; in LehrPuls they are part of every license — €79 one-time instead of $108 per year.
- You work with two-round Peer Instruction, question blocks with a shared scenario, or group and station work.
Read on
All ten services side by side, with sources and legend: competitive analysis (also as a PDF). More one-on-one comparisons: overview. What LehrPuls is and how to try it: start page.
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