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tl;dv

Turns meetings into transcripts, summaries, and action items

Meeting NotesKnowledge Search
tl;dv is an AI-powered meeting notetaker for teams. It captures meetings, creates recordings, transcripts, summaries, and action items, and helps teams search or summarize insights across conversations. The product is positioned beyond basic transcription: it supports CRM and workflow updates, AI-generated reports across meetings, sales coaching analysis, multilingual transcription and translation, and secure handling of meeting data.
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FYAI Score

8.1 / 10

Based on 524 reviews

Pricing:

Freemium

Best for:

Sales and customer-facing teams that run lots of calls

Score Breakdown

  • Ease of use8.4 / 10
  • Features8.6 / 10
  • Pricing8.4 / 10
  • Integrations7.3 / 10
  • Support7.5 / 10

PRODUCT PREVIEW

What this AI tool does

tl;dv is an AI-assisted meeting companion designed to help teams capture and revisit what was said in calls without relying on manual note-taking. It records meetings, generates transcripts, and produces concise summaries so you can quickly understand key points after the fact. It’s useful for keeping stakeholders aligned, especially when people can’t attend live or need to review decisions later. By making it easier to search and share important moments from conversations, tldv supports clearer follow-ups and more consistent documentation across projects.

Use cases

Best for

Meeting Notes

tl;dv records meetings and generates searchable transcripts, summaries, and action items you can share with your team.

Transcribe Audio

Upload or capture meeting audio to get an AI transcript with speaker labels, timestamps, and multilingual translation.

Email Writing

Turn meeting summaries and action items into follow-up emails by copying tl;dv notes into your email draft.

ANALYSIS

Strengths & limitations

Strengths
  • Combines meeting recording, transcription, AI summaries, action items, and shareable highlights in one workflow.
  • Supports broader meeting intelligence use cases, including aggregated reports across calls, sales coaching, objection tracking, and customer feedback analysis.
  • Official site emphasizes privacy and compliance, including GDPR, SOC 2, EU hosting, encryption, and a stated policy that recordings and transcripts are not used to train AI.
Limitations
  • The tool is mainly useful for teams that already run many recorded meetings or customer calls; it is less relevant for work that does not depend on meetings.
  • Many of its highest-value workflows appear tied to integrations, CRM processes, and team adoption rather than standalone note-taking alone.
  • The official page describes broad capabilities but does not provide enough detail there to fully assess accuracy, setup complexity, or limitations of each integration.

Evaluation

FYAI score breakdown

Our structured evaluation across five key criteria

8.1 / 10

Overall score

Based on 524 reviews

  • Ease of use8.4 / 10
  • Features8.6 / 10
  • Pricing8.4 / 10
  • Integrations7.3 / 10
  • Support7.5 / 10

What users say

Findings from public reviews, documentation and community sources.

  • Ease of use

    G2 lists tl;dv at 4.7/5 from 524 reviews, and a sample G2 review says tl;dv helps users be “more present in meetings” while keeping documentation accessible afterward. Reddit sentiment includes some reliability concerns.

  • Features

    The tl;dv features page describes AI-generated summaries, customizable notes, CRM outcome logging, and drafted follow-up emails. The tl;dv features page also references translation/summarization in “30+ languages.”

  • Pricing

    The tl;dv pricing page says users can “begin recording, transcribing, taking notes, and getting insights” for free. The tl;dv pricing page notes “40% off on every annual plan.”

  • Integrations

    The tl;dv homepage says meeting insights can be “instantly sent to your favourite apps.” The tl;dv homepage also says tl;dv can “automatically log call notes and CRM outcomes.”

  • Support

    The tl;dv homepage includes a FAQ-style section framed as “Your note-taking questions, explained.” G2 lists tl;dv at 4.7/5 from 524 reviews.

Who is this for?

Best for teams that want meeting capture to feed follow-up work, the tl;dv features page describes AI-generated summaries, CRM outcome logging, and drafted follow-up emails, so meeting notes can turn into CRM records and email drafts. Less suited to buyers who need a fully detailed integration catalog before purchase, the tl;dv homepage facts mention insights sent to “your favourite apps” and automatic CRM outcome logging rather than a separately detailed integration catalog.

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Feature highlights

AI meeting notes

Auto-record, transcribe, summarize, and capture action items.

Search across calls

Find answers and summarize insights across all conversations.

CRM & workflow sync

Push notes and updates into your CRM and team workflows.

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FAQ

Frequently asked
questions

Everything you need to know about this AI tool,
its features, pricing, use cases, and limitations.

What types of teams and meetings is tl;dv a good fit for?
tl;dv fits teams that spend a lot of time in recurring internal meetings (standups, project syncs, customer calls) and need searchable notes, highlights, and clear action items. It’s especially useful when not everyone can attend live and you want a reliable recap. If your meetings are highly sensitive or you need heavily customized minute formats, you may want to compare alternatives.
How do tl;dv’s free and paid plans differ in practice?
The free plan is typically enough to test recording, transcription, and basic sharing, but it often comes with limits around advanced features and scale. Paid tiers usually add more admin controls, deeper integrations, and higher usage allowances for teams. Before choosing, check whether the features you need (e.g., team-wide rollout, governance, or advanced workflows) are gated behind a higher plan.
How does tl;dv compare with Otter, Fireflies, or Fathom for meeting notes?
tl;dv is often chosen for its workflow around highlights, summaries, and sharing key moments back to the team, while competitors may emphasize different strengths like broader call intelligence or CRM-heavy pipelines. Your decision usually comes down to which integrations you rely on and how you want notes distributed (clips vs long transcripts vs structured fields). If you need strict formatting or specialized sales analytics, compare feature-by-feature rather than assuming parity.
How quickly can a team get tl;dv running, and what onboarding effort should I expect?
Transcription quality can drop with poor audio, heavy accents, or cross-talk, which can affect the accuracy of action items. Summary customization may be limited if you need a very specific template for different meeting types. Teams new to automated meeting documentation may also need time to align on review and correction workflows.
What should I know about tl;dv’s data handling, privacy, and compliance before adopting it?
You’ll want to confirm where recordings and transcripts are stored, how long they’re retained, and what controls exist for access, sharing, and deletion. Check whether tl;dv supports the compliance requirements your organization needs (e.g., DPA, SSO/SAML, audit logs, and regional data considerations). Also ensure your meeting-consent process matches local laws and your company policy, since recording rules vary by jurisdiction.