A new hire's first 90 days show how a company runs. Do they learn the job from a documented standard, or by following someone around? Once they're trained, does anyone see how the work is going? And when review time comes, is the conversation built on real work, or on two weeks of memory?
Litmos is an AI-powered learning management system for training employees, customers, and partners from one platform. Trainual connects three suites in one system: training that sets the standard, operations that keep the team on track, and performance reviews built on the work already on record.
Litmos is built around the course. Trainual is built around the team.
Trainual is rated 4.7 across 2,000+ reviews on G2, Capterra, and Trustpilot. Here's how the two platforms compare, starting with what happens after the course is complete.
🔎 At a glance
- Litmos is built around the course; Trainual is built around the team. Litmos delivers and tracks courses at scale, while Trainual connects training, operations, and performance in one loop.
- Trainual's Training suite, Operations suite, and Performance suite share one record, so every review pulls in real goal progress, KPIs, and training completion.
- Litmos maps competencies and skill gaps and builds AI-personalized development paths, but its public pages show no operating meetings, KPI scorecards, or review cycles.
- Litmos is an independent company owned by Francisco Partners since December 2022; it is no longer part of SAP.
- Both platforms offer e-signatures, version history, AI course creation, SCORM support, and native mobile apps.
- Trainual adds an accountability chart, the Delegation Planner™, and SOPs with a named owner and scheduled re-verification.
- Litmos is stronger for customer and partner training, instructor-led programs, and translation, with 37 languages to Trainual's 5.
📚 Training that stays true after it changes
Litmos versions courses and rolls them back; Trainual keeps every SOP and policy owned, reviewed, and searchable outside of any course.
Litmos has a capable authoring layer. Teams build courses with Litmos AI and the Litmos content authoring tools, and upload PDFs, PowerPoint, video, and SCORM packages. Litmos versions content, lets admins decide whether in-progress learners move to the update, and rolls back when needed.
Both platforms let teams write content, upload existing files, and restore earlier versions.
Where Trainual goes further:
- A living SOP library. Documentation and SOPs live in their own layer, searchable and always open, so the process exists outside any course.
- An owner on every document. Content verification reminders prompt that owner to re-check the material on a set schedule.
- Feedback that reaches the owner. Learners flag confusing or outdated steps in context, so the person responsible can fix them fast.
- Restore on every document. Version history with one-click restore covers every SOP, policy, and process.
- Show the steps, not just describe them. Built-in screen recording and flowcharts sit inside the editor.
Litmos keeps the course current. Trainual keeps the way the work gets done current.
🏗️ Accountability you can see: who owns what
Litmos organizes people into teams for assignments and reporting; Trainual connects every role to the responsibilities, SOPs, training, and standards behind it.
Litmos handles structure well. Litmos Teams map locations and corporate hierarchy, and one Litmos customer used Teams to build an organizational chart. Litmos also tracks competencies and skills, and assignment rules route training by role and location.
Both platforms group people by role, team, or location to assign the right training.
Where Trainual goes further:
- Responsibilities on every role. The roles and responsibilities builder lists what each job owns, with the SOPs and training linked underneath.
- Standards that feed the review. Role-based expectations and measurable standards come from those same roles, so reviews measure people against what the job requires.
- Ownership, not just hierarchy. The org chart and accountability chart answer "who owns that?" in one click.
- Handoffs that hold. The Delegation Planner™ shows what shifts when someone takes leave, changes roles, or exits, and what training the next person needs.
- Every tool, documented. The software and tools hub records each system the team uses, who owns it, and where to get help.
Litmos shows which team someone belongs to. Trainual shows what they own and what good looks like in the role.
✍️ Compliance that lives with the policy
Litmos captures e-signatures inside a course module; Trainual attaches legally-binding e-signatures to the policy, SOP, or training itself.
Litmos takes compliance seriously. Its e-signature module captures learner consent to terms and policies. Courses can recur on a set cycle with automatic retakes, and course expiration controls access. The Litmos content catalog listed 17,797 items as of September 2026, across Litmos compliance content and partners such as BizLibrary, HSI, and dss+.
Both platforms collect e-signatures, repeat compliance training on a schedule, and offer compliance course libraries as add-ons.
Where Trainual goes further:
- Sign the policy, not only the module. E-signatures attach to any policy or SOP in the documentation layer, with a record on each document.
- Recurring due dates. Policies and training re-assign on a cycle, so attestations stay current.
- 400+ expert-built courses. The courses library covers compliance, safety, HR, and upskilling, and stays current automatically.
- Courses beside your own rules. Premium courses live next to the internal handbook, so the course and the policy sit in one place.
- A review date on every policy. Content verification reminders keep each policy on its owner's schedule.
Litmos proves the course was completed. Trainual proves the current policy was signed and has an owner.
🗓️ Keeping the team on track after training
Litmos stops at learning; Trainual's Operations suite runs the meetings, goals, KPIs, decisions, and updates that show whether the training is sticking.
Litmos schedules instructor-led and virtual training sessions, and its dashboards give learners, leaders, and admins a view of training progress. Those are training events and training metrics.
Both platforms give managers a dashboard of training progress.
Where Trainual goes further:
- Meetings with memory. Meetings and agendas keep structured agendas, notes, and history, and decisions and action tracking rolls open action items forward.
- Goals with owners. Goals and planning sets company and team goals with owners, targets, and due dates.
- KPIs side by side. Scorecards and KPIs track targets, benchmarks, and trends.
- Updates without chasing. Team updates collect recurring async updates with priority and blocker prompts.
- Problems surface early. Team pulse flags stalled goals, recurring blockers, and overdue training before anyone goes looking.
Litmos tells you training happened. Trainual shows whether the work is getting done, and saves that record for the review.
🌱 Reviews built on the work, not on memory
Litmos tracks skills and competencies; Trainual runs self and manager reviews built on the goals, KPIs, and training already in the system.
Litmos has a real development story. It maps competencies and skills, runs AI skill-gap analysis, recommends learning, tracks continuing education, and builds AI-personalized development paths. For an L&D team, that is a strong skills layer.
Both platforms tie development to training content.
Where Trainual goes further:
- Reviews with the evidence attached. Self assessments and manager reviews run on review cycles, and each one pulls in goal progress, KPIs, and training completion.
- A review packet, not a blank form. Every cycle produces a review packet, so the conversation starts from what happened.
- Standards from the roles you built. Expectations come from documented roles and responsibilities, so the review is defensible, not arbitrary.
- Growth areas that carry forward. Growth areas persist across cycles, link to the courses and SOPs that close the gap, and ladder up to company goals.
- Praise and feedback on the record. Public praise and private feedback build a continuous record between reviews.
Litmos tells you which skills are missing. Trainual shows how the work went and what to train next.
🤖 AI that knows how the team works
Litmos AI builds courses and recommends learning; Trainual AI answers questions across SOPs, roles, meetings, and metrics, and preps reviews from the work on record.
Litmos AI is practical. It drafts course outlines, module text, and assessment questions, refreshes outdated modules, recommends courses by role and history, and automates enrollments and reminders. Litmos also scores role-play video assessments and offers an AI assistant for learners.
Both platforms use AI to draft content and generate quizzes.
Where Trainual goes further:
- Answers with sources. AI-powered knowledge search answers what to do, how to do it, and where metrics stand, with links back to the source.
- Answers about people. The assistant searches people profiles to explain what each person does and how to work with them.
- Review prep, built for you. AI pulls the goals, updates, and results that matter into review prep, and team pulse shows where performance needs attention.
- Meeting prep built in. AI insights recommend an agenda from recent updates, decisions, and next steps.
- Your agents, grounded. Custom AI agents connect to Trainual's MCP server and draw on the same trusted context.
Litmos AI helps build the course. Trainual AI helps the team do the job and get better at it.
🌟 Where Litmos has the edge
Litmos is the stronger choice over Trainual when training has to reach beyond the employee base. It runs branded portals for customers and partners, supports multi-brand setups, and sells paid courses through built-in e-commerce, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise reports running more than $50 million a year in training registrations through it. Instructor-led training is another strength, with session registration, waitlists, and attendance tracking, plus Zoom, WebEx, and GoToTraining connections. The Litmos mobile app works offline and supports 37 languages. The catalog is far larger than Trainual's, with 17,797 items listed as of September 2026. Its skills layer, with AI skill-gap analysis and continuing education tracking, suits formal L&D programs. Litmos also holds ISO 27001:2022 certification alongside SOC 2 Type II, brings training into Salesforce through AppExchange, and scores role-play videos with AI. If those are the jobs to be done, Litmos deserves a serious look.
💰 Pricing
Litmos and Trainual both quote pricing based on team size and the features needed; Litmos lists every plan as request-for-pricing.
✅ Choose Trainual if…
- You want training, day-to-day operations, and performance reviews in one system, instead of an LMS plus two more tools.
- You want reviews built on goals, KPIs, and training completion, not on memory.
- You want SOPs, policies, and training that stay current after every change, with an owner on each one.
- You need to know who owns every role and responsibility, and what happens when someone leaves.
- You don't have a dedicated LMS administrator and want managers and experts to maintain their own content.
🎯 Choose Litmos if…
- You train customers, partners, or resellers alongside employees and need branded portals or paid courses.
- You run instructor-led or virtual classroom programs with registration, waitlists, and attendance.
- You deliver training in many languages or need a very large off-the-shelf catalog.
- Your L&D team needs a skills layer, with competencies, skill-gap analysis, and continuing education, more than review cycles.
💡 Know what you're solving for
Litmos fits organizations where training is a managed function, and Trainual fits teams where training is the start of how people work and grow. Litmos shines with an L&D team, several audiences, formal programs, and success measured in completions. Sabre and Hewlett Packard Enterprise run on it for good reason. Many growing teams are fighting a different problem, though. The new hire finished every course and still isn't sure what good looks like on a Tuesday. The weekly meeting lives in one tool, the scorecard in a spreadsheet, and the review in a document written from memory. Nobody can connect the training someone took to the results they delivered. A bigger course catalog won't fix any of that. So which problem is costing your team more right now: getting a course in front of learners, or making sure the people who take it get better at the job?
🏆 Our pick: Trainual
Trainual is our pick for growing teams, and Litmos is the right call for enterprises running formal training programs across employees, customers, and partners, especially with instructor-led sessions and global reach.
When the goal is a team that gets better every month, Trainual is the stronger fit. It trains people on a documented standard, keeps them on track with meetings, scorecards, and updates, and closes the loop with reviews built on real work. Book a demo to see how the loop works for your team.
❓ Frequently asked questions
Is Litmos still owned by SAP?
No. Litmos became an independent company when Francisco Partners completed its purchase from SAP in December 2022, and Eric Vermillion became CEO in February 2026. SAP customers can still buy Litmos through the SAP Store. Trainual is also independent, with a 4.7 rating across 2,000+ reviews.
What is the difference between Trainual and Litmos?
Litmos is a learning management system that delivers courses to employees, customers, and partners. Trainual connects three suites on one record: training sets the standard, the Operations suite keeps the team on track, and performance reviews pull in that work. Litmos is built around the course. Trainual is built around the team.
Does Litmos have e-signatures?
Yes. Litmos offers an e-signature module that captures learner consent to terms and policies inside a course. Trainual collects legally-binding e-signatures on any policy, SOP, or training in its documentation layer, so each signature ties to the current version of the document itself.
Does Litmos have version history?
Yes. Litmos versions course content, lets admins decide whether in-progress learners move to an update, and supports rollback. Trainual offers version history with one-click restore on every SOP, policy, and process, plus scheduled reminders that prompt each content owner to re-verify their material.
Does Litmos have an org chart?
Litmos Teams can map locations and corporate hierarchy, and one Litmos customer used Teams to build an organizational chart. Trainual pairs an interactive org chart with an accountability chart and the Delegation Planner™, so every role shows the responsibilities, SOPs, and training it owns.
Does Litmos have an AI assistant?
Yes. Litmos AI drafts courses, generates assessments, recommends learning, and includes an AI assistant for learners. Trainual's AI-powered knowledge search answers questions across SOPs, people profiles, meetings, and metrics with sources, and Trainual AI preps reviews from the work already on record.
How does Trainual connect training, operations, and performance?
Trainual runs all three on one record. Training sets the standard with SOPs and training paths. Meetings, goals, KPIs, and updates keep the team on track. Reviews then pull in goal progress, KPIs, and training completion. Litmos focuses on training and skills, without operating meetings or review cycles.
How much does Litmos cost?
Litmos lists all three of its plans as request-for-pricing, so every buyer gets a custom quote. Trainual pricing also depends on team size and the features you need; see Trainual pricing or book a demo for a quote. Compare what each quote includes, not only the per-user rate.
Does Litmos have meetings, goals, or KPI tracking?
No. Litmos schedules instructor-led training sessions and reports on learning progress, but the public Litmos pages reviewed in September 2026 show no operating meetings, company goals, or KPI scorecards. Trainual includes meetings and agendas, goals, scorecards, decisions, and team updates in its Operations suite.
Does Litmos have performance reviews?
No. Litmos tracks competencies, runs skill-gap analysis, and builds AI-personalized development paths, but its public pages show no review cycles. Trainual's Performance suite runs self assessments and manager reviews with growth areas, feedback, and praise, built on the goals, KPIs, and training already in Trainual.
