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.
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 (Growth) (free plan available) | EUR 0 (Free), then EUR 216 per seat per year for Pro (EUR 18 per month equivalent; EUR 29 billed monthly) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | Freemium subscription metered by AI credits and video analyses drawn from annual pools, with unlimited recordings from the first paid 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 | 3 recordings, 3 AI generations per month, and 1 transcription per month, with AI summaries, chat, templates, and full transcripts included within those limits. | Free forever with recording, transcription, and AI summaries for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams; the vendor's feature pages describe these as unlimited, while third-party reviews report a monthly cap on AI summaries, so verify the limit in your own account. |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial on Growth with a credit card required, alongside a permanent free plan that needs no card | No fixed trial length published; the free tier serves as the evaluation path and no credit card is required |
| 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 credit model: understanding that AI credits and video analyses are annual pools rather than monthly refills is the difference between a plan that works all year and one that stops in September. | 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 | GDPR expectations as a German-headquartered vendor (tldx Solutions GmbH), Advanced security controls and SSO are positioned as Business-tier features; specific certification reports are not published on the marketing pages |
| Founded | 2020 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Cologne, Germany (operating entity tldx Solutions GmbH; some databases list Aachen) |
| 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 metered by AI credits and video analyses drawn from annual pools, with unlimited recordings from the first paid tier.
- Free$0
- Growth$19
- Business$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: on Growth at $19 you have unlimited recordings but 600 AI credits for the whole year, which is about 50 generations a month, so you would be summarizing fewer than two thirds of your meetings and running out by autumn. The honest plan for that person is Business at $34 a month, $408 a year, with unlimited AI. 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 Business also includes screen recording across browser, desktop, mobile, and extension, video frame analysis, unlimited transcription, white labelling, and API access, all under SOC 2 Type II. If you would otherwise buy a notetaker plus Loom plus a transcription API, one $34 subscription replaces all three and the arithmetic flips decisively in ScreenApp's favour.
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, the meeting path uses a visible bot, and the free tier's single monthly transcription means you cannot even evaluate it properly. 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 Business at $34 a month 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. Buy it for consolidation and breadth, buy the Business tier rather than Growth so the AI credit pools stop 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 2026-08-22; tl;dv last reviewed 2026-08-22. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.