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tl;dv records, transcribes and AI-summarizes your Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls, then lets you clip and share specific moments instead of the whole recording. It's free to start, genuinely easy to onboard, and increasingly aimed at sales teams via CRM sync, coaching feedback and new 2026 AI Agents — but its free tier is thinner than it looks once you learn the "10 AI summaries" cap is for life, not per month.
TABLE · AT A GLANCE
Category PRODUCTIVITY [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
Vendor tldx Solutions [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
Starting price $18/mo [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
Free tier Yes [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
Standout Automatic recording, transcription and AI summarization of Zoom/Google Meet/Teams calls [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
Founded 2020 [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
Website tldv.io [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
Our score 7.6/10 · Great · T1 [liveFacts] ✓Jul'2026
FIG · SCORE BREAKDOWN
Ease of useEAS
0.15WEIGHT
EDITORIAL NOTEBest privacy sub-score of the cohort — SOC2 Type II, GDPR-native EU company, no active litigation unlike Otter.ai/Fireflies.ai — earning it a tier 1 alongside Fathom. The free tier's '10 AI notes for life' framing (not monthly) is a real transparency ding, and support responsiveness is the weakest input to its otherwise strong profile.
SCORING PIPELINE · SHOW THE WORK
//What users say
Collected from external platforms · not reviews left on bestaiq
Trustpilot: account access and support complaints
WHAT THEY CRITICIZE - ▲Changing the email or domain on an account can lock users out of all their recordings, in one case for two weeks on a paid annual plan
- ▲Support goes silent for weeks during exactly those lockouts, while billing continues
- ▲One reviewer reports the free plan is not usable without first starting a paid-tier trial
- ▲The bot is reported joining calls that were not the user's, and is hard to switch off
- ▲There is no positive counterweight on this profile: nine reviews, none above two stars
READ WITHNine reviews is far too small a sample to score a company on, and a profile this thin attracts people with a grievance rather than ordinary users. It sits against 489 G2 reviews at 4.7/5 and 91 Capterra reviews at 4.6/5. What makes it worth reading is not the 2.2 average but that every complaint describes the same failure: losing access to an account and then not being able to reach anyone about it.
YouTube: tutorials, a tool-matching comparison and a sponsored-looking clip
WHAT THEY PRAISE - ✓Records video alongside the transcript and timestamps and summarises each section, which is what reviewers say separates it from transcript-only tools
- ✓Named the pick for pushing recorded meetings straight into a CRM
- ✓Signup is a few minutes with a Google or Microsoft account
- ✓Users treat the recording as their own record of what was agreed at work
WHAT THEY CRITICIZE - ▲The comparison that recommends it sends buyers elsewhere when integration depth, pocket recording or enterprise sales coaching is the priority
- ▲The most-viewed tl;dv video is a tagged creator placement, not a review, and no long-form independent test exists
READ WITHThe most-viewed of the three is a personal workplace-drama clip carrying the #usetldv hashtag, which reads as a paid creator placement rather than an opinion. The other two are a setup tutorial and a short comparison. None is a long-form test of transcript accuracy.
Reddit: rival comparisons and promo posts, no user account
WHAT THEY PRAISE - ✓The category case for tools like tl;dv is made by users themselves: the top-voted thread here argues that recording the call beats writing notes during it
- ✓Named in beginner AI-tool lists as a way to produce meeting summaries as a paid service
WHAT THEY CRITICIZE - ▲A rival's comparison says tl;dv records only via a bot on Meet and Zoom, with no bot-free option, which matches what independent reviews report
- ▲The same comparison rates its output as timestamped highlights and short notes rather than structured summaries with action items and deadlines
- ▲Integration count is put at roughly 5,000 through Zapier, with no Make support
- ▲No first-hand account of using tl;dv surfaced anywhere on Reddit: the tool-specific posts are a competitor's table and a promo post
- ▲The free DIY route is a live threat in these threads: a 278-point post replaces paid notetakers with iOS voice memos and ChatGPT
READ WITHNot one of these is a customer talking about using tl;dv. The most detailed is a feature table authored to sell a competitor, in which tl;dv carries a warning symbol on every row; the second is a two-point post pitching meeting-summary gigs on Upwork. Its specific claims are worth reading because independent reviews say the same thing about bot-only capture, but nothing here is evidence of what the product is like to live with.
◆ ACROSS ALL SOURCES Synthesized from 8 channels across 6 platforms · 3 affiliate-biased channels down-weighted. Independent signal is weighted higher than commission-carrying sources.
MOST PRAISED - ✓Ease of use is the most consistently cited strength across G2, Capterra, Product Hunt and independent blogs[S]
- ✓Records the video and timestamps and summarises each part of the call, which reviewers name as the difference from transcript-only tools[S]
- ✓Transcription/summary quality is rated strong in good audio conditions across 30+ languages[S]
- ✓Integration breadth (native CRM + 5,000+ apps via Zapier, API, MCP server) is repeatedly flagged as a differentiator[S]
MOST CRITICIZED - ▲Account email or domain changes have locked paying customers out of all recordings, in one case for two weeks, in another for over three weeks while billing continued[S]
- ▲Support silence during those lockouts is the single most repeated complaint on Trustpilot, spanning October 2025 to June 2026[S]
- ▲Free plan's 10 AI-note cap is a lifetime limit, not monthly, and multiple reviewers call this confusing or deceptive[S]
- ▲Speaker misattribution and reduced accuracy with accents, fast speech or technical jargon recur across reviews, with no custom-vocabulary feature to correct it[S]
- ▲The bot is reported joining calls that were not the user's and being hard to disable[S]
TAKEAWAYtl;dv's core notetaking and transcription experience earns consistently strong marks (G2 4.7/5 from 489 reviews, Capterra 4.6/5 from 91), and the free tier is thinner than its framing suggests once the lifetime, not monthly, AI-note cap is understood.
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