tl;dv

tl;dv is a meeting recorder and transcriber. It captures a call, transcribes it in any of more than 30 published languages and dialects, and produces a written summary, so that the record of a meeting exists without anyone having been assigned to keep it.

How it captures is the first thing to settle, because there are two answers and they cover different ground. The original route sends a bot into the call, and the vendor names exactly three platforms it can join: Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The newer route needs no bot and no integration at all — the desktop app records your computer's system audio while you sit in the meeting normally, which the vendor describes as working with any meeting platform that outputs audio. Its help centre goes further and names Slack, WhatsApp and Discord. If your calls happen somewhere the bot cannot follow, that is the route that makes this usable.

The bot-free route has a price, and the documentation states it rather than burying it. Bot-free recording captures audio only: your microphone and whatever your computer is playing. Video, screen sharing and chat are not recorded — so a demo, a shared deck or a whiteboard session is lost, and anything else making noise on your machine is kept. It needs a Mac or a Windows PC, and on macOS you have to grant screen-recording and microphone permissions before it will work at all. The vendor also warns that the usual in-call recording notice may not appear, which makes telling people you are recording your job rather than the software's. There is an iOS app as well, and the vendor says mobile auto-recording covers Meet, Zoom and Teams on iOS and Android.

Free Forever is not a fourteen-day sample — it does not expire, and recording and transcription are not metered on it. Read the rest of it carefully, though, because the vendor's own documentation is blunt about what the word free is doing. Automatic AI notes cover your first ten meetings in full and then shrink to the first ten minutes of each. You get ten AI prompts, ten reports, four clips and five manual uploads. And the sentence that changes how all of those read: these limits are for the lifetime of the account and do not renew monthly. They are a starting balance, not an allowance.

Two more free-plan terms decide whether you can rely on it. Recordings are kept for three months and move to archived storage after three days, where pulling one back to watch can take up to an hour and a half. And outside a four-week window before deletion, a free-plan recording cannot be downloaded at all — not even later, by someone who has since paid. Overlapping meetings are not recorded, and under load the vendor prioritises paying customers, so a free recording may simply not happen. Above all this, Pro and Business are sold per seat: 29.00 EUR and 39.00 EUR a month, falling to 18.00 EUR and 29.00 EUR a seat a month if billed yearly. Because the meter is seats rather than meetings or minutes, cost scales with headcount, not with how much you record.

The transcript is not meant to be the end of the process. The vendor names HubSpot, Slack and Notion by product name, and says meeting content can flow into CRM, ticketing and project-management systems. That is the difference between a meeting archive and a meeting that leaves something behind in the systems people actually work in.

One gap is left, and it sits between the two paid tiers rather than above them. What paying buys over free is documented — single-meeting AI summaries without limit, analytics, more than five thousand integrations, instant access to older storage — and a three-hour cap on any single recording applies on every plan including those. What is not published in any one place is what separates Pro from Business. Individual help articles name Business-only capabilities as they come up, such as connecting multiple email domains to one organisation above ten seats, but no side-by-side comparison of the two exists. If you are choosing between Pro and Business rather than between free and paid, that is a question for the vendor.