tl;dv

Name: tl;dv
Brand: tl;dv
Price: 02161829 USD

European meeting AI that grew up into a sales coaching tool

tl;dv is a German-built AI meeting recorder for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams that transcribes and summarizes calls in more than 30 languages, logs structured outcomes into CRMs, and adds a sales coaching layer of playbook adherence tracking, AI-selected clips, and multi-meeting reports that aggregate trends across an entire team's conversations.

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Overview

tl;dv is short for 'too long; didn't view', which tells you what it was originally for: sharing timestamped highlights of a recorded call with colleagues in another timezone rather than making them watch the whole thing. Founded in 2020 in Cologne by Raphael Allstadt and Carlo Thissen, it raised a EUR 4.3M seed in early 2022 led by K Fund and has grown into a roughly 65-person company claiming more than 2 million users.

The product has moved decisively toward sales. Recording and transcription are still the base, but the features tl;dv now leads with are playbook adherence tracking, AI-selected coaching moments, deal and lead capture into the CRM, and multi-meeting reports that answer questions across a quarter of calls rather than one. That puts it in a middle position: more coaching depth than Granola or Circleback, less than a dedicated revenue intelligence platform, and considerably cheaper than either.

For non-US buyers this is the obvious European option in the category. Pricing is denominated in euros on the vendor's own page (Pro at EUR 29 per seat monthly or EUR 216 per seat annually, Business at EUR 39 monthly or EUR 348 annually), the counterparty is a German entity, and the free tier exists precisely so teams can try it without procurement. The free plan's exact AI limits are the one thing worth verifying in your own account, because the vendor's marketing pages and third-party reviews do not agree on them.

Best for

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.

Not the right fit for

Teams that object to recording client calls with a visible bot; tl;dv is a recorder first, and the privacy-forward local-capture model belongs to Granola and Circleback.
Buyers who need more than 30 transcription languages; Fireflies and Circleback both advertise more than 100, and tl;dv's list, while broad, is materially shorter.
Cost-sensitive solo users who need the paid features; at EUR 29 per seat monthly, Pro is the most expensive monthly entry point among the mainstream notetakers in this set, and the value only appears on annual billing.
Organizations that want a US counterparty and US-denominated billing; the euro-first pricing that makes tl;dv attractive in Europe is friction everywhere else.
Anyone who needs a fully documented free-tier spec before signing up; the published free-plan limits are ambiguous enough that you have to test them yourself.

How it works

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You connect a calendar and choose which meetings tl;dv should capture on Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. Recording produces high-quality audio and video alongside a transcript with speaker recognition, and iOS and Android apps extend the same auto-recording behaviour to meetings you take away from a laptop.
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Transcription covers more than 30 languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Ukrainian, Turkish, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew, and tl;dv will translate transcripts and summaries between them, which is the practical version of multilingual support for a team selling across Europe.
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Summaries are template-driven rather than one-size-fits-all. Out of the box you get Smart AI Topics and structured sales formats such as MEDDIC, and Pro customers can write custom prompts so a discovery call, a renewal conversation, and a user interview each produce a differently shaped document. Action items are extracted separately, and follow-up emails and next-step tasks are drafted from the conversation.
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The output then splits two ways. Operationally, call notes and deal outcomes log automatically into the CRM through an integration catalogue the vendor puts at more than 5,000 apps, covering HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, and Notion among others. Analytically, tl;dv aggregates across many meetings at once: custom AI reports delivered to an inbox, playbook adherence scoring per rep, feature request tracking for product teams, and extraction of usable customer quotes for marketing.

Feature breakdown

27 features in 5 modules

Recording and transcription

The original product, still solid, with video treated as a first-class artifact.

Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams capture: Calendar-driven auto-recording across the three major platforms, with high-quality audio and video retained rather than transcript-only.
Mobile auto-recording: iOS and Android apps extend automatic capture to meetings taken away from the desk.
30-plus language transcription: Covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Filipino, Thai, Ukrainian, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Hebrew, Norwegian, and Catalan among others.
Speaker recognition: Per-participant attribution throughout the transcript, which is what makes talk-time and coaching metrics possible downstream.
Multilingual translation: Transcripts and summaries can be translated between supported languages, so a German-language call can be reviewed by an English-speaking manager.
Timestamped highlights: The founding feature: mark moments during or after a call and share the clip rather than the recording, which is where the product name comes from.

AI notes and summaries

Template-driven output aimed squarely at sales documentation.

Instant AI summaries: Structured recaps generated as soon as the call ends, with no manual trigger required.
Sales framework templates: Prebuilt formats including MEDDIC, so qualification data lands in a consistent shape across the team rather than in each rep's own prose style.
Smart AI Topics: Automatic topical segmentation of the conversation so long calls can be navigated by subject.
Custom AI prompts: Pro-tier customers define their own summary prompts and templates per meeting type instead of accepting the defaults.
Action item extraction: Commitments and next steps pulled out of the conversation and listed separately from the narrative summary.
Auto-drafted follow-ups: Follow-up emails and next-step tasks generated from the conversation content.

Sales coaching

The layer that separates tl;dv from pure notetakers, and its main reason to exist in 2026.

Playbook adherence tracking: Scores whether reps followed the defined sales process on a call, which is the coaching feature Granola and Circleback do not attempt at all.
AI-selected coaching clips: The system surfaces the moments worth reviewing rather than leaving a manager to scrub through recordings.
Performance insights: Per-rep conversational metrics rolled up for one-to-ones and quarterly reviews.
Onboarding acceleration: Curated libraries of real customer calls used as training material for new hires, which is what the recorded-video path buys you over transcript-only tools.
Deal and lead capture: Outcomes and lead data extracted from conversations and written to the CRM rather than typed by the rep.

Multi-meeting reporting

Analysis across the archive, aimed at managers and product teams rather than individual contributors.

Aggregated trend analysis: Questions answered across many conversations at once, for example which objection has grown fastest this quarter.
Custom AI reports to inbox: Recurring reports on defined questions delivered by email, so insight arrives without anyone logging in.
Feature request tracking: Compiles product feedback mentioned across customer calls into a reviewable list for product managers.
Customer quote extraction: Identifies usable testimonial-grade quotes from the archive for marketing.
Role-specific views: Prebuilt reporting angles for sales managers, product owners, marketing managers, and product managers.

Integrations and administration

A very large connector catalogue and the usual enterprise controls at the top.

CRM auto-logging: HubSpot and Salesforce integrations write call notes and outcomes to records without rep involvement.
5,000-plus app integrations: The vendor's headline connector count, covering Slack, Notion, ticketing systems, and the long tail through automation platforms.
Team analytics for admins: Business-tier organizational dashboards over the team's meeting and coaching data.
Advanced security and SSO: Single sign-on and advanced security controls arrive on the Business tier.
Dedicated success manager: Included from the Business tier rather than reserved for a custom Enterprise contract.

Use cases

4 documented

Sales manager at a European Series A company

Four reps selling in three languages, no consistent qualification data in the CRM, and coaching based on whatever calls the manager happened to sit in on.

MEDDIC summary templates normalize qualification data across every rep, playbook adherence scoring shows who is skipping discovery, and AI-selected clips make weekly one-to-ones evidence-based instead of anecdotal.

Product manager at a B2B startup

Feature requests are mentioned constantly in sales and success calls and then evaporate, because nobody is going to watch 80 recordings to count them.

Feature request tracking and custom AI reports mine the whole archive and land a recurring digest in the PM's inbox, turning sales calls into a continuous research channel.

Remote-first team spread across timezones

Half the team is asleep during key customer calls, and sharing a full recording means nobody watches it.

Timestamped highlights and clips let the attendee share three minutes instead of forty, which is the original problem tl;dv was built to solve and still does well.

Marketing lead building customer proof

Case studies stall because getting a usable customer quote means scheduling a separate interview that the customer keeps rescheduling.

Quote extraction surfaces testimonial-grade language customers already said on recorded calls, so the marketing ask becomes permission rather than a new meeting.

Pricing

from EUR 0 (Free), then EUR 216 per seat per year for Pro (EUR 18 per month equivalent; EUR 29 billed monthly)

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.

Plan	Price	Includes
Free	EUR 0 per seat per month	Recording and transcription for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams AI meeting summaries Timestamped highlights and clips No credit card required The one plan in this dossier whose published limits are genuinely ambiguous; treat the free tier as a trial until you have confirmed the AI summary allowance yourself.
Pro	EUR 29 per seat per month (EUR 216 per seat per year, about EUR 18 per month)	Custom AI prompts and summary templates Unlimited AI prompts CRM integration Template summaries including MEDDIC Annual billing is roughly 38 percent cheaper than monthly; the monthly rate is the most expensive entry point among comparable notetakers.
Business	EUR 39 per seat per month (EUR 348 per seat per year, about EUR 29 per month)	Team-wide analytics Playbook adherence and coaching depth Advanced security and SSO Dedicated success manager
Enterprise	Custom contact sales	Larger team deployments Enhanced security requirements Dedicated customer success management

Billing notes

Pricing is displayed in euros on tl;dv's own pricing page; USD figures quoted by third-party sites are approximate conversions and drift with exchange rates.
Annual billing saves roughly 38 percent on Pro and 26 percent on Business against the monthly rates, and the site promotes a 40 percent annual discount, so the effective saving depends on which promotion is live when you buy.
The monthly rates (EUR 29 Pro, EUR 39 Business) are high relative to the category; tl;dv's competitiveness depends almost entirely on committing annually.
Free-tier limits are described inconsistently between the vendor's feature pages and third-party reviews, so do not build a plan around unlimited free AI summaries without confirming it.
Figures are as published as of August 2026.

Value assessment: 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.

Strengths & limitations

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.
A European vendor with euro-denominated pricing and a German legal entity, which simplifies procurement and data-protection conversations for EU buyers.
Very large integration catalogue, with the vendor claiming more than 5,000 connected apps including HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, and Notion.
A dedicated success manager is included from the Business tier rather than gated behind a custom Enterprise contract.

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.
Public compliance documentation is thinner than competitors': advanced security and SSO are positioned as Business-tier features rather than published certifications, so security reviews require asking rather than reading.
The coaching layer sits between two stools, deeper than a notetaker but lighter than a dedicated revenue intelligence platform, so larger sales organizations may outgrow it while smaller ones never use it.

Head-to-head comparisons

3 alternatives

tl;dv vs Fathom

from $0 (Free plan, unlimited recording and transcription)

Fathom is cheaper at every level, with a free tier offering unlimited recording and two bot-free capture modes, and its Business tier covers CRM field sync and scorecards for about $25 a seat annually. tl;dv answers with deeper coaching (playbook adherence, AI-selected clips), stronger multi-meeting reporting, and euro billing from a German entity. US startups optimizing for cost should take Fathom; European sales teams that want coaching analytics and a local counterparty should take tl;dv.

Full tl;dv vs Fathom comparison

tl;dv vs Fireflies.ai

from $0 (Free), then $10 per user per month billed annually (Pro; $18 monthly)

Fireflies covers far more languages (100-plus against 30-plus), captures from dialers and uploaded files, and starts at $10 a seat annually, but meters storage minutes and AI credits and spreads itself across voice agents and email assistants. tl;dv is narrower and more opinionated, with better sales coaching and no usage meters. Pick Fireflies for capture breadth and language coverage; pick tl;dv for coaching depth and predictable per-seat pricing.

Full tl;dv vs Fireflies.ai comparison

tl;dv vs Circleback

from $20.83 per user per month (Individual, billed annually)

Circleback is the higher-craft product: cleaner notes, 100-plus languages, bot-free desktop capture, HIPAA, and 1,000-plus integrations, at roughly $21 to $25 a seat with no free plan. tl;dv retains video, coaches reps against a playbook, and offers a free tier. Choose Circleback if note quality, privacy, and automation matter most; choose tl;dv if you are running a sales team and want recorded calls, coaching scores, and manager reporting.

Full tl;dv vs Circleback comparison

Implementation & onboarding

Setup time: 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 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.
Onboarding: Self-serve through Pro. Business includes a dedicated success manager, which is unusually early for that level of hands-on support and is a genuine reason to consider the tier.
Migration notes: No bulk import of another vendor's historical transcripts, so the archive starts fresh. Recordings, transcripts, and summaries can be exported, and the large integration catalogue plus automation platforms make it practical to mirror output into a data warehouse or Notion if you want an independent copy from day one.

Platform, API & security

Platforms: Web appBrowser extensioniOS and Android appsZoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams
API: Integration-led rather than API-led: the vendor advertises more than 5,000 connected apps covering CRM, chat, documentation, and automation platforms. A public developer API is not the headline of the platform.
Compliance: 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
Data residency: Not published; buyers with EU residency requirements should request confirmation directly given the vendor's German base.
SSO: Single sign-on is included from the Business tier.
Security notes: Being a German entity is itself a procurement advantage for EU buyers, but tl;dv publishes less security detail than Fireflies, Circleback, or Fathom, so a formal security review will mean asking rather than reading a trust center.

Support & resources

Channels: Email and in-app supportHelp centerDedicated success manager from the Business tier
Documentation: Help centre and an extensive marketing blog covering meeting workflows, comparisons, and sales methodology.
Community: No large official user forum; the vendor invests in content marketing rather than community infrastructure.

Company

Founded: 2020
Headquarters: Cologne, Germany (operating entity tldx Solutions GmbH; some databases list Aachen)
Ownership: Venture-backed
Founders: Raphael Allstadt (CEO), Carlo Thissen, Allan Bettarel (listed as co-founder in some company databases)
Employees: Approximately 65 (third-party estimate, 2026)
Funding: EUR 4.3M seed round in January 2022 led by K Fund, with participation from Shilling Capital Partners.

Funding history

Round	Amount	Year	Notes
Seed	EUR 4.3M	2022	Led by K Fund with Shilling Capital Partners participating.

Timeline

2020Founded in April in Cologne by Raphael Allstadt and Carlo Thissen, initially as a way to share timestamped Zoom highlights instead of full recordings across timezones.
2022Raises a EUR 4.3M seed round led by K Fund with Shilling Capital Partners, and expands beyond Zoom to Google Meet.
2023Adds Microsoft Teams support, custom AI summary templates, and CRM integrations, shifting the positioning from recording tool toward sales workflow.
2025Introduces sales coaching capabilities including playbook adherence tracking and AI-selected coaching clips, plus multi-meeting aggregated reporting.
2026Claims more than 2 million users and an integration catalogue exceeding 5,000 apps, with a team of roughly 65 people and a G2 rating of 4.7 across about 450 reviews.

Integrations

Zoom
Google Meet
Microsoft Teams
HubSpot
Salesforce
Slack
Notion
Automation platforms covering the long tail
5,000-plus apps overall (vendor count)

Frequently asked questions

10 questions

What is tl;dv?

tl;dv is an AI meeting recorder and notetaker for Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams that transcribes and summarizes calls in more than 30 languages, logs outcomes into CRMs, and adds sales coaching features such as playbook adherence tracking and AI-selected coaching clips. The name stands for 'too long; didn't view', referring to its original purpose of sharing timestamped highlights instead of full recordings.

How much does tl;dv cost?

There is a free tier, then Pro at EUR 29 per seat per month or EUR 216 per seat per year (about EUR 18 monthly), and Business at EUR 39 per seat per month or EUR 348 per year (about EUR 29 monthly). Enterprise pricing is custom. Pricing is quoted in euros on the vendor's own page, so dollar figures elsewhere are conversions.

What does the tl;dv free plan include?

It covers recording, transcription, and AI summaries for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams with no credit card required. The exact limits are the problem: tl;dv's feature pages describe these as unlimited while third-party reviews report a monthly cap on AI summaries. Confirm the allowance in your own account before planning around it.

Is tl;dv good for sales coaching?

It is one of the better options in this price range. Playbook adherence tracking scores whether reps followed the defined process, AI-selected clips surface the moments worth reviewing, and per-rep performance insights feed one-to-ones. It is deeper than Granola or Circleback on coaching, but lighter than a dedicated revenue intelligence platform with pipeline-wide forecasting.

How many languages does tl;dv support?

More than 30, including English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Thai, Ukrainian, Turkish, Polish, Czech, and Hebrew, and it can translate transcripts and summaries between them. That is broad but behind Fireflies and Circleback, which both advertise more than 100 languages.

Does tl;dv join meetings as a bot?

tl;dv is a recording-first product built around automatic capture of scheduled meetings, and it retains audio and video rather than transcript only. Teams that need a genuinely silent, bot-free local capture path should evaluate Granola or Circleback's desktop app instead.

Is tl;dv a European company?

Yes. It was founded in 2020 in Cologne, Germany by Raphael Allstadt and Carlo Thissen, operates as tldx Solutions GmbH, and prices in euros. For EU buyers that means a European counterparty and euro invoicing, which simplifies procurement and data-protection discussions relative to US vendors.

Can tl;dv analyse trends across many meetings at once?

Yes, and this is one of its stronger features. Custom AI reports can be scheduled to an inbox, feature requests mentioned across customer calls are compiled for product teams, and testimonial-grade customer quotes are extracted for marketing. The analysis works across the archive rather than one meeting at a time.

Does tl;dv integrate with HubSpot and Salesforce?

Yes. CRM integration is a Pro-tier feature, with call notes, deal outcomes, and lead data logged automatically to records. The vendor claims a catalogue of more than 5,000 connected apps overall, including Slack and Notion alongside the CRMs.

How big is tl;dv as a company?

Roughly 65 employees as of 2026 by third-party estimate, funded with a EUR 4.3M seed round in January 2022 led by K Fund. The vendor claims more than 2 million users and a G2 rating of 4.7 across about 450 reviews. It is a small, focused company rather than a heavily capitalized platform play.

Editorial verdict

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.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.