Cleverbase vs the mental load
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cleverbase
Securely manage your digital identity and sign documents with a qualified electronic signature. Register once for a 3-year validity period on your smartphone, requiring ID verification and a video call.
- Digital identity registration
- Qualified electronic signature
- Secure data sharing
- ID scanning
- Video call verification
- 3-year registration validity
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With the Cleverbase Wallet you register yourself for the services of Cleverbase. This allows you to sign at the highest security level with a qualified electronic signature, identify yourself and share your personal data with your consent. You only register once with the Cleverbase Wallet. Your registration is then valid for 3 years with the same smartphone. What do you need to register with Cleverbase? - Passport or identity card – valid for at least another 30 days on the day you register. - On the Cleverbase website you can read which nationalities are currently supported - A drivers license can NOT be used for registration with Cleverbase - The Cleverbase Wallet for your phone. - Working camera’s and microphone. During registration, the process looks the following: 1| Choose a PIN-code 2| Enter your personal email address 3| Take a selfie 4| Scan your ID 5| Video call with a Cleverbase employee 6| Confirm registration with PIN code Do you need help registering? Please contact customer service. Visit https://cleverbase.com/en/contact for our contact details. About Cleverbase. Cleverbase operates as a Qualified Trust Service Provider under license of the Dutch government and is therefore continuously supervised. Cleverbase products also have a high eIDAS qualification. DATA PROCESSING & PRIVACY The Cleverbase Wallet processes the IP address, name and version of the operating system of your smartphone or tablet and the unique identifier of the mobile device. By downloading and using the Cleverbase Wallet you agree to this processing, which is also subject to the provisions below. - The user's personal data is processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and the privacy statement on the website: https://vidua.nl/legal/privacy-statement - The Cleverbase Wallet complies with security measures similar to Cleverbase's security measures. Cleverbase also makes use of the operating system's security mechanisms. - The user is responsible for the security of his mobile device.
the mental load
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You don't know what's on her mind. That's the problem this solves. Not the chores — the noticing. Remembering that shoes are outgrown before anyone complains. Knowing term starts in ten days, not on the day. Spotting that the visa renewal takes six weeks, not six days. That work is invisible, it never stops, and in most households one person is carrying nearly all of it. Mental Load moves it to you. WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES Add your family once — names, ages, schools, activities, renewal dates, the people who help you. From then on the app anticipates. A birthday isn't one reminder on the day. It's the gift ten days out, the plan at seven, the card at two. A school term becomes uniform and supplies at ten days and a carpool plan at four. A visa expiry starts prompting you six weeks ahead, then checks in again before the deadline. You get the work when there's still time to do it. 50 THINGS SHE'S TRACKING Built into the app is a library of the domains a mother actually carries, across thirteen areas: health, food, clothing and growth, school, home, staff, admin and money, social, her work, her wellbeing, travel and seasonal. Shoe sizes, because feet outgrow shoes faster than anything and children never mention it. What's running low. Whether anyone has read the school app this week. Whether she has had an evening genuinely off duty. Whether her own deferred appointment ever got booked. A few surface each week, on their own rhythm, so nothing nags. Browse all fifty any time. THE AI Premium adds an assistant that reads your whole household: • A weekly radar that names what she's likely carrying that nobody has claimed • Speak a rambling sentence — "Emma needs goggles Wednesday and Jack's passport runs out in October" — and get properly dated, sorted tasks • Photograph or import school letters, clinic sheets and screenshots; every date is extracted, deduplicated and staged • Add one thing and see the invisible work it implies — the gift, the RSVP, the lift, the outfit PRIVATE BY DESIGN Nothing is shared. There is no account, no sign-in and no partner login. Assignments — "I've got it", "she's handling it" — are your own reference, and she never sees any of it. This is deliberate. The moment a household app becomes visible to both people it turns into a chore chart, and chore charts add load rather than removing it. This is for you to carry more, quietly. Your data stays on your device, encrypted at rest. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. WHAT'S FREE The tracked domains, family context, staged reminders, calendar and weather awareness, notifications and private assignments are free, permanently. Premium covers the four AI features. Seven-day free trial, then $4.99/month or $39.99/year. A one-off lifetime option is available. This app helps you notice things; it does not guarantee them. Nothing here is medical, legal, immigration, financial or tax advice, and dates should always be confirmed with the school, clinic, authority or provider concerned. Premium unlocks the AI features: the weekly load radar, voice and text capture, document date import, and reactive suggestions. Everything else is free. Subscription: monthly or annual auto-renewing, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.dataloup.io/mental-load/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cleverbase at none against the mental load's 3. Cleverbase also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. the mental load sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Cleverbase asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cleverbase ships an update weekly, the mental load every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cleverbase | the mental load |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (17 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 418 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vidua | Luc Mathery |
In-app purchases
Cleverbase
No in-app purchases
the mental load
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$99.99









