Scribbl 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 assessmentScribbl compared with tl;dv
tl;dv is a bot-based recorder with deep sales coaching, multi-language support it actually owns, and a mature integration catalogue, priced well above Scribbl once you leave its free tier. Scribbl offers no coaching, no owned language stack, and no compliance certifications, but it records without announcing itself and costs $13. This is a straight trade of platform depth against discretion and price.
Choose Scribbl if
Small agencies, sales teams, and consultants who want a recording they can rewatch and clip without a bot embarrassing them in front of a client, and individuals who need unlimited meetings with video for thirteen dollars a seat.
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 | Scribbl | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Meeting Notes | Meeting Notes |
| Starting price | $0 (Lite), then $13 per user per month billed annually (Pro) (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 credit-based subscription where one credit equals one meeting, with per-seat pricing on paid tiers and a steep annual discount. | 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 | Lite covers 10 meetings a month with unlimited meeting length, AI notes and action items, and video recordings that expire after two months. Scribbl's own FAQ describes the free allowance as 15 credits a month, so the exact number is worth confirming at signup. | 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 | No separate trial; the free Lite plan runs indefinitely and needs no credit card | No fixed trial length published; the free tier serves as the evaluation path and no credit card is required |
| Best for | Small agencies, sales teams, and consultants who want a recording they can rewatch and clip without a bot embarrassing them in front of a client, and individuals who need unlimited meetings with video for thirteen dollars a seat. | 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 | Five minutes. Install the Chrome extension, sign in, and the next browser meeting is captured. There is nothing for IT to package and no bot to whitelist in your meeting platform's admin console. | 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 | Minimal. The post-call tab opens automatically with notes already generated, and the only habit worth building is marking moments during the call so the key exchanges are pre-flagged. | 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 | Chrome extension, Web app, Google Meet, Zoom, Microsoft Teams | Web app, Browser extension, iOS and Android apps, Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams |
| Compliance | No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification published, No published GDPR data processing agreement, Stated policy of not training models on customer conversations | 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 | 2022 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | United States | Cologne, Germany (operating entity tldx Solutions GmbH; some databases list Aachen) |
| Ownership | Privately held, independent | Venture-backed |
Strengths and limitations
Scribbl
Strengths
- The only genuinely cheap way to get bot-free capture and retained video in the same product, which is a combination almost nobody else offers.
- Transcript-to-video seeking makes finding the exact moment in a call trivial, and it is the feature users cite most in reviews.
- One credit equals one meeting regardless of length, so a three-hour workshop costs the same as a fifteen-minute stand-up.
- Chrome extension install means no desktop agent, no admin package, and no meeting-platform approval, which routes around IT friction entirely.
Limitations
- No SOC 2, no ISO 27001, no published data residency, and no SSO, which disqualifies Scribbl from most formal procurement processes.
- Language support is explicitly inherited from Google Meet's caption list rather than owned, so non-English quality is not something Scribbl controls or publishes figures on.
- Browser-only: no desktop client capture, no mobile app, and no in-person meeting recording.
- Several Team-tier capabilities are still labelled coming soon, and Team requires a sales conversation despite having a published price.
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
Scribbl
Freemium credit-based subscription where one credit equals one meeting, with per-seat pricing on paid tiers and a steep annual discount.
- Lite$0
- Pro$13
- Team$20
For the specific person who wants bot-free capture and video playback, Scribbl is the cheapest route by a wide margin and there is barely any competition. Model 20 meetings a week: that is roughly 80 calls a month, all covered by Pro's unlimited allowance at $13 per user per month, or $156 a year per seat, with a year of video retention included. Fathom's paid tiers or tl;dv give you more platform, but both put a bot in the room. Granola at $14 is the closer comparison on price and loses on media entirely. What you are trading away is certification and scale: no SOC 2, no SSO, no residency, no mobile, and language coverage borrowed from Google. If none of those appear on your requirements list, the price is excellent. If any of them do, no discount makes it work.
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
Scribbl
Scribbl is a narrow product that is very good at the one thing it chose. If you want a recording you can rewatch and clip, but you refuse to put a bot in front of a client, there is almost nothing else at this price that does both, and transcript-to-video seeking makes the archive genuinely usable rather than nominally searchable. At $13 a seat with unlimited meetings and unlimited length, the arithmetic works for anyone in constant calls. The problem is everything around the product: no SOC 2, no SSO, no residency, no mobile, borrowed language support, a Team tier that is half built, and a company small enough that its own site disagrees about the size of the free plan. Buy it as an individual or a small unregulated team where the buyer is the user. Do not put it in front of a procurement department, because it will not survive the first page of the questionnaire.
Read the full Scribbl 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 profileScribbl 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.