tl;dv Review 2026

What is tl;dv?

Ten. That is the number of meetings that get full AI notes on tl;dv's free plan before summaries shrink to the first ten minutes of each call, and it is the figure most people skip when they read that the recorder is free forever. This tldv meeting recorder review and pricing guide starts with that gap, because the difference between unlimited recordings and unlimited AI is what decides whether a founder or an agency ends up paying.

What the Aachen-built notetaker does once it joins a call

tl;dv is made by tldx Solutions GmbH, a company registered in Aachen, Germany, and founded in 2020 by Raphael Allstadt, Carlo Thissen and Allan Bettarel. The team is fully remote across 13 countries, and its about page claims more than 3 million users. The core product is a bot that joins Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls, records them, writes a transcript with speaker labels and produces AI meeting notes from it.

The useful parts sit after the call. Notes come out under headings you can shape with templates, and each point links back to timestamps in the recording, so a sales lead can jump straight to the moment a client mentioned budget. You can cut highlights into short clips, stitch clips from several calls into a Reel, and search for a topic across your whole library. The help centre also describes running a custom AI prompt over many meetings at once, which is how its multi meeting reports work.

There are three ways to capture audio besides the bot. A desktop app for Windows and macOS records Zoom, Meet and Teams with or without a bot, and it can pick up Slack huddles or Discord calls from system audio. Mobile apps for iPhone and Android record in-person meetings as audio only, capped at 3 hours, and upload them to your library. A Chrome extension adds a record button inside Google Meet.

tldv free plan unlimited recordings, and the AI limits behind them

The billing help article promises a free plan with unlimited recordings and transcripts, and that promise holds. What runs out is everything built on top. According to the Free plan article (dated 24 November 2025), these limits apply for the lifetime of the account and never reset each month:

• Full AI notes for your first 10 meetings, then notes for only the first 10 minutes of every later meeting.
• 10 AI prompts and 10 AI Reports in total.
• 20 integration credits, shared by Zapier and the HubSpot, Salesforce and Salesloft workflows.
• 4 shareable clips (no downloads) and 5 manual file uploads.
• Recordings kept for 3 months, with an email 4 weeks before deletion; video moves to archived storage after 3 days and can take up to 1.5 hours to restore.
• No overlapping meetings, and free users lose priority when servers are busy.

For a freelancer who wants a searchable transcript of every client call, this is still generous. For anyone who wants the summary and action items without reading a transcript, the free tier is a trial with a long tail.

tldv pricing: Pro vs Business for a five-person sales team

The official pricing page builds its plan grid with scripts and picks a currency from your location, so its figures could not be read directly. Two official statements are firm. The help centre says paid plans start at $18 a month and can be billed monthly or yearly, and the pricing page's own description says every annual plan is 40% cheaper than paying month to month, a standing discount rather than a sale. Two independent pricing trackers, updated in August and September 2026, attach that $18 to Pro billed annually per seat. Monthly and Business rates could not be confirmed from two independent sources, so they are not quoted here; open the pricing page from India to see what you would actually be charged.

For five reps on annual Pro, the reported rate works out to $90 a month, paid as one yearly charge. Business costs more per seat, and the jump is worth it only if a manager will actually use coaching and speaker insights across calls. A rep who just wants clean notes after each demo is well served by Pro.

Setting up tl;dv as a tldv google meet recorder

Sign in with a Google account and tl;dv links your Google Calendar on the spot (a Microsoft sign-in links Outlook instead). In preferences, choose whether the bot auto-records all meetings, only internal ones on your email domain, or only external ones with at least one outside guest. When a call starts, the bot asks to join and the host has to admit it. Google's newer prompt sometimes shows only a Deny button, so use the three-dot menu next to the bot and pick Admit.

For a one-off call, paste the meeting link into the Record now page or press the tl;dv button the extension adds to the Meet toolbar. Zoom recording and Teams capture work the same way through the calendar, and the desktop app covers clients who will not let a bot in. Run your first five meetings on the free plan, compare the notes against your own memory of each call, and only then decide on a seat count.

tldv vs fireflies, with Otter as the third option

Fireflies.ai is the closest rival. Its Pro plan lists at $10 per seat billed annually or $18 monthly, well under the reported $18 annual rate for tl;dv Pro, and Fireflies Business is $19 a seat on annual billing. Fireflies also names Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and other Indian languages in its supported list, which matters for teams whose calls slip between English and Hindi. Its weak spot is the free tier, where storage tops out at 400 minutes.

That is exactly where tl;dv wins. Unlimited free recording with no minute cap makes it the cheaper way to build an archive, even if the AI layer is rationed. Otter.ai sits at the other end: its Basic plan allows 300 minutes a month with a 30-minute limit per conversation, Pro costs $8.33 per seat annually or $16.99 monthly, and transcription covers six languages. Otter suits individuals who want live captions; tl;dv suits teams that record many calls and mine them later.

Language claims, CRM sync and Notion

Language support needs care, because tl;dv's own pages disagree. The about page claims more than 100 languages at over 95% accuracy and the Chrome Web Store listing says 20+ for Meet, while the homepage, the languages feature page and the help centre all say 30+. The help-centre article on changing the transcription language settles it with an actual list of 42 options, counting regional variants such as six Arabic dialects. Hindi is on that list; Tamil, Telugu and Bengali are not, so older reviews that mention transcription in 30 languages sit closer to the official figure than the 100+ claim. Choosing a language per meeting needs the Chrome extension and a manual start, so run a few Hindi or Hinglish calls on the free plan before buying seats for a regional team.

On the sales side, the CRM integration pushes recordings, notes and insights into HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive, with Salesloft workflows also listed in the help centre. A Notion integration and Slack appear among the 5,000-plus apps it connects with, most of them through Zapier. Paid plans add an API and webhooks, and the help centre keeps a separate section on MCP, API and webhook setup.

Where tl;dv stores recordings, and who processes them

The privacy policy, published 9 September 2026, says customer content, including recordings and transcripts, is not used to train foundation or generative AI models. Hosting is in Europe, with Google Cloud, Wasabi and Hetzner named for servers in Germany and Finland. AI processing runs in the EU or the US depending on a setting in your account preferences; the policy lists Anthropic and Google Vertex AI as AI sub-processors and AssemblyAI and ElevenLabs for transcription.

The security page claims GDPR compliance for all users, a SOC 2 Type II report available on request through its trust portal, and AES-256 encryption at rest. Free recordings are deleted after 3 months; paid recordings stay until you delete the account. Neither page addresses commercial reuse of recordings, so the practical rule is simple: get consent from every participant, especially on client calls.

Stopping the bot from walking into the wrong meeting

The most common complaint about any auto-joining notetaker is a bot appearing in a call nobody meant to record. For a single meeting, deny the bot when it asks to join, or remove it like any other participant. For good, switch off auto-recording on the Preferences page. Uninstalling the Chrome extension or the desktop app does not stop calendar invites, which catches many people out. Deleting the account from profile settings removes all data, according to the help centre.

Friction points: the 3-hour cap and archived video

Every plan stops a recording or upload at 3 hours, so long workshops need splitting. Free video moves into archived storage after 3 days, and restoring it can take up to 1.5 hours, which is irritating when a client wants a clip in a hurry. The pricing page sets its currency by location, so budget from what it shows you rather than from dollar figures in reviews. The iOS app, which runs on iPhone only, had its ratings reset, and the visible reviews mention failed uploads, so treat mobile capture as a secondary route for now.

The tldv meeting recorder review and pricing verdict for Indian teams

Pay for Pro if you sit in more than ten client calls a month and want summaries without reading transcripts; at a reported $18 per seat a month on annual billing it costs more than Fireflies Pro but gives a stronger free fallback. Choose Business only when a manager will use cross-call reports or team coaching. Freelancers and small agencies can live on the free plan for archives and searchable transcripts, accepting that most calls will get only a ten-minute summary.