ScreenApp vs tl;dv
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
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The short answer
Editorial assessmentScreenApp compared with tl;dv
tl;dv is a purpose-built meeting recorder with sales coaching, deep integration into CRMs, and multi-language support it owns. ScreenApp records meetings among many other things and offers none of the coaching layer. For a sales team, tl;dv is the correct tool and ScreenApp is not a serious alternative. For a team whose recordings are mostly not meetings, the reverse is true.
Choose ScreenApp if
Small businesses whose recording needs go beyond meetings into demos, training, support sessions, and screen walkthroughs, and teams that want one SOC 2 certified tool covering every kind of capture rather than a dedicated notetaker plus a separate screen recorder.
Choose tl;dv if
European sales teams of roughly 3 to 50 people that want call recording, CRM logging, and genuine coaching analytics from a euro-billing vendor, plus product and marketing teams who want recurring reports mined from the whole call archive rather than one meeting at a time.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | ScreenApp | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Free), then $19 per month billed annually (Pro; $30 monthly) | EUR 0 (Free), then EUR 216 per seat per year for Pro (EUR 18 per month equivalent; EUR 29 billed monthly) |
| Pricing model | Freemium subscription with monthly allowances of AI chats, transcriptions, and uploads that reset each month, and recording-length caps by tier. | Freemium per-seat subscription, quoted in euros on the vendor's pricing page, with substantial annual discounts and a promoted 40 percent off annual plans. |
| Free plan | 10 AI chats and templates a month, 2 transcriptions and 3 uploads or imports to try, and recordings of up to 45 minutes each. | Free forever with unlimited video recording and transcription for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, email and calendar integrations, and the mobile app, with AI usage capped at 10 meetings with AI notes and 10 Ask AI queries. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on Pro with a credit card required, alongside a permanent free plan that needs no card | Paid-plan trials are offered (length not published); the free plan needs no credit card |
| Best for | Small businesses whose recording needs go beyond meetings into demos, training, support sessions, and screen walkthroughs, and teams that want one SOC 2 certified tool covering every kind of capture rather than a dedicated notetaker plus a separate screen recorder. | European sales teams of roughly 3 to 50 people that want call recording, CRM logging, and genuine coaching analytics from a euro-billing vendor, plus product and marketing teams who want recurring reports mined from the whole call archive rather than one meeting at a time. |
| Setup time | Under five minutes for browser recording, since there is genuinely nothing to install. Adding the desktop apps, mobile apps, Chrome extension, and meeting bot each take a few minutes more, and the meeting bot needs calendar access to schedule itself. | Under fifteen minutes to start recording: sign up, connect a calendar, authorize the meeting platforms, and confirm which meetings to capture. Configuring summary templates, CRM field mapping, and playbook criteria takes a further half day if you want the coaching layer to be meaningful. |
| Learning curve | Low for recording, moderate for cost management. The thing users get wrong is the transcription allowance: Pro's 50 a month suits occasional meetings, and daily users need Max. | Low for recording and reviewing, moderate for the coaching and reporting layer. Playbook adherence only works if someone first writes down what the playbook is, which is a sales-management task rather than a software one. |
| Platforms | Web browser, macOS desktop app, Windows desktop app, iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Meeting bot for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams | Web app, Browser extension, iOS and Android apps, Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliance stated | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, EU AI Act compliant, No model training on customer calls |
| Founded | 2020 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Aachen, Germany (tldx Solutions GmbH; fully remote team) |
| Ownership | Privately held (ScreenApp Pty Ltd) | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
ScreenApp
Strengths
- The broadest capture surface in this batch: browser, desktop, mobile, Chrome extension, meeting bot, and direct upload, all feeding one AI pipeline.
- Direct upload of existing Zoom, Meet, and YouTube recordings gives a genuine migration path for historical archives that dedicated notetakers cannot match.
- Video frame analysis finds visual moments in a recording, which is a capability no meeting-only tool offers and which matters for demos and screen walkthroughs.
- SOC 2 Type II certification at a $19 entry price, which is better certification than several dedicated notetakers in this category.
Limitations
- The AI credit pools are annual rather than monthly, which is easy to misread and means a busy quarter can consume most of a year's allowance.
- The free plan's one transcription a month makes free evaluation of the meeting use case effectively impossible.
- Meeting notes quality is not the product's centre of gravity; dedicated notetakers produce better-shaped meeting output from the same conversation.
- The meeting path uses a visible bot, so there is no discreet capture option for client calls where a vendor-named attendee is a problem.
tl;dv
Strengths
- Genuine sales coaching depth (playbook adherence, AI-selected clips, per-rep performance metrics) that the note-quality-focused competitors in this category do not attempt.
- Multi-meeting reporting is a real product rather than a search box: recurring custom AI reports, feature request tracking, and quote extraction across the whole archive.
- Strong multilingual handling for European teams, with 30-plus transcription languages plus translation of transcripts and summaries between them.
- Video and audio are retained as first-class artifacts, which makes tl;dv usable for onboarding and demo review in a way transcript-only tools cannot be.
Limitations
- Free-plan limits are documented inconsistently: the vendor's own feature pages imply unlimited recordings, transcriptions, and summaries while third-party reviews report a monthly AI summary cap, and that ambiguity is a poor look for a tool asking for calendar access.
- Monthly pricing is the highest in this comparison set at EUR 29 and EUR 39 per seat, so the product only reads as good value if you commit for a year.
- Bot-based recording only, with no silent local-capture mode, which rules it out for teams whose clients react badly to a visible notetaker.
- 30-plus languages is respectable but well behind Fireflies and Circleback, both of which advertise more than 100.
Pricing compared
ScreenApp
Freemium subscription with monthly allowances of AI chats, transcriptions, and uploads that reset each month, and recording-length caps by tier.
- Free$0
- Pro$19
- Max$34
- EnterpriseFrom $199
ScreenApp is excellent value if your recording problem is broad and poor value if it is narrow. Model 20 meetings a week, roughly 80 a month: Pro at $19 covers 50 transcriptions a month, so you would miss a third of your meetings. The honest plan for that person is Max at $34 a month billed annually, $408 a year, with unlimited AI and transcription. Against Granola Business at $14 a seat or Fathom, that is expensive for meeting notes alone and the meeting notes are not as good. But Max also covers screen recording, mobile capture, uploads, and video analysis, so the comparison depends on how many tools it replaces.
tl;dv
Freemium per-seat subscription, quoted in euros on the vendor's pricing page, with substantial annual discounts and a promoted 40 percent off annual plans.
- FreeEUR 0
- ProEUR 29
- BusinessEUR 39
- EnterpriseCustom
On annual billing tl;dv is fairly priced: about EUR 18 a seat for custom AI prompts and CRM logging, and about EUR 29 a seat for coaching analytics and SSO, which is broadly in line with Fathom Business and cheaper than most dedicated revenue intelligence tools. On monthly billing it is the most expensive option in this set, which is a deliberate squeeze toward annual commitment and worth naming as such. The clearest value case is a European sales team that wants coaching plus euro billing in one purchase; the weakest is a solo user or a small non-sales team, who will find Granola or Fathom cheaper and simpler for the same core notes.
Editorial verdict on each
ScreenApp
ScreenApp is the wrong answer to a narrow question and a very good answer to a broad one. If all you want is meeting notes, a dedicated notetaker will write better ones for less money, and the free tier's two trial transcriptions mean you cannot evaluate it properly without the Pro trial. But small businesses rarely have only a meeting problem. If you are also recording demos, building training material, capturing support sessions, and sitting on an archive of old Zoom files nobody can search, ScreenApp Max at $34 a month billed annually replaces three or four tools with one SOC 2 Type II certified subscription that includes video frame analysis, unlimited transcription, white labelling, and an API on Enterprise. Buy it for consolidation and breadth, buy Max rather than Pro so the monthly transcription cap stops mattering, and do not buy it expecting the best meeting summary in this category, because it is not competing for that.
Read the full ScreenApp profiletl;dv
tl;dv is the best answer in this category for a European sales team that wants recorded calls, CRM logging, and real coaching analytics without buying a revenue intelligence platform. Playbook adherence scoring and the multi-meeting reporting layer are meaningfully more than any pure notetaker offers, the euro billing and German entity remove procurement friction for EU buyers, and video retention makes it usable for rep onboarding. Two things hold it back: monthly pricing is the highest in this set, so the value case depends on an annual commitment, and the free-tier limits are documented inconsistently enough that you have to test them yourself. If you are not running a sales team, Granola and Fathom will give you better notes for less money.
Read the full tl;dv profileScreenApp profile last reviewed 2026-09-27; tl;dv last reviewed 2026-09-27. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.
The best in AI Meeting Note Takers
23 trackedAI meeting note takers join calls to record, transcribe, and summarize them, turning conversations into searchable notes, action items, and CRM updates without anyone typing.
The broadest platform in meeting AI: transcription, search, AI apps, and integrations that reach every corner of the small-business stack.
A free plan with unlimited recording and transcription that forced every paid notetaker in the category to justify its price.
A ten-person team out-writing the funded competition on note quality, then automating what the notes say.
Abandoned the meeting bot entirely for a local notepad that finishes what you type, a mechanism the rest of the category is now copying.
A five minute Chrome extension install with no bot to whitelist, and notes open automatically in a post-call tab the moment you hang up.
Frequently asked questions
6 questionsWhat is the difference between ScreenApp and tl;dv?
tl;dv is a purpose-built meeting recorder with sales coaching, deep integration into CRMs, and multi-language support it owns. ScreenApp records meetings among many other things and offers none of the coaching layer. For a sales team, tl;dv is the correct tool and ScreenApp is not a serious alternative. For a team whose recordings are mostly not meetings, the reverse is true.
Is ScreenApp or tl;dv cheaper?
ScreenApp starts at $0 (Free), then $19 per month billed annually (Pro; $30 monthly). tl;dv starts at EUR 0 (Free), then EUR 216 per seat per year for Pro (EUR 18 per month equivalent; EUR 29 billed monthly). The billing models differ, so the entry price is rarely the whole cost. ScreenApp pricing model: Freemium subscription with monthly allowances of AI chats, transcriptions, and uploads that reset each month, and recording-length caps by tier. tl;dv pricing model: Freemium per-seat subscription, quoted in euros on the vendor's pricing page, with substantial annual discounts and a promoted 40 percent off annual plans.
Does ScreenApp or tl;dv have a free plan?
ScreenApp has a free plan. 10 AI chats and templates a month, 2 transcriptions and 3 uploads or imports to try, and recordings of up to 45 minutes each. Trial terms: 7-day free trial on Pro with a credit card required, alongside a permanent free plan that needs no card. tl;dv has a free plan. Free forever with unlimited video recording and transcription for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, email and calendar integrations, and the mobile app, with AI usage capped at 10 meetings with AI notes and 10 Ask AI queries. Trial terms: Paid-plan trials are offered (length not published); the free plan needs no credit card.
Who should choose ScreenApp?
Small businesses whose recording needs go beyond meetings into demos, training, support sessions, and screen walkthroughs, and teams that want one SOC 2 certified tool covering every kind of capture rather than a dedicated notetaker plus a separate screen recorder.
Who should choose tl;dv?
European sales teams of roughly 3 to 50 people that want call recording, CRM logging, and genuine coaching analytics from a euro-billing vendor, plus product and marketing teams who want recurring reports mined from the whole call archive rather than one meeting at a time.
What are the best alternatives to ScreenApp and tl;dv?
SaaSTracker profiles 23 products in AI Meeting Note Takers. The Summer 2026 awards in the category went to Fireflies.ai (Category Leader), Fathom (Best Value), Circleback (Momentum). Every profile is compiled from primary sources, so a shortlist can be built from pricing, limitations, and fit rather than from star ratings.
