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GetNotes vs tl;dv: which fits your meetings?
tl;dv is really a sales-call review tool wearing a notetaker's coat — the clips and coaching reports are the product, and they need a call to exist.
Side by side
What the output is for
tl;dv: Clips, reels and coaching reports designed to be reviewed and shared by someone who was not in the call.
GetNotes: Minutes designed to end the meeting properly: summary, decisions, and action items with owners and deadlines.
Where the audio comes from
tl;dv: A bot on Zoom, Meet or Teams, a desktop app capturing device audio, or the newer tl;dv Mobile Lite app for in-person meetings.
GetNotes: The room itself, recorded in the mobile or desktop browser — the only capture path GetNotes has ever had.
Free plan
tl;dv: Unlimited recordings and transcripts, but AI summaries are capped and free recordings are deleted after three months.
GetNotes: A one-time free meeting of up to 30 minutes with the full transcript and full minutes, no card and no three-month expiry clock on it.
Entry paid price
tl;dv: Pro is around $29 billed monthly, with an annual rate near $18 a month — a standing discount runs on that annual price, so check it on the day.
GetNotes: $19 a month billed monthly, one price, no promotional annual rate to expire.
Where tl;dv is the better pick
Pick tl;dv if you manage a sales team and the job is call review: cutting the objection-handling moment into a clip, pushing it to the deal record, and reading a coaching report across a rep's month. GetNotes has no clipping, no reels and no coaching layer, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.
Comparison based on publicly available information, checked July 2026. Products change — check their site for current details.
tl;dv earns its keep after the meeting rather than during it. Its strength is review: timestamped highlight clips and reels you can drop into Slack or a CRM record, and coaching reports that look across many calls at once to tell a sales manager how reps are handling objections. If your job is listening back to conversations other people had, that is a genuinely different and useful product from a transcript with a summary on top.
It has also moved away from pure bot capture. Alongside the notetaker that joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams, tl;dv ships a botless desktop app that records device audio, and a mobile app, tl;dv Mobile Lite, for recording meetings in person. Both routes reduce its dependence on being allowed into the call, which matters in a market where calling platforms periodically tighten the rules on third-party notetakers. The mobile in-person path is comparatively new, so test it on your own meetings before committing.
GetNotes starts from the other end. There is no desktop app and no bot; the browser on the phone in your pocket is the recorder, and the output is not clips but minutes — summary, decisions, and action items with owners — in any of 99 languages. tl;dv lists 30-plus transcription languages, though its own pages have been inconsistent about whether the number is 20-plus or 30-plus.
Where it earns its keep
Discovery meetings held at the customer's office
Field sales that happens across a desk rather than a Zoom link. tl;dv's clips and coaching reports are built on recorded calls, and its in-person mobile route is new as of July 2026. GetNotes was built for exactly this room: phone on the table, record in the browser, minutes with owners on the way back to the car.
A free-plan recording you needed four months later
tl;dv's free plan keeps unlimited recordings but, per its own plan comparison, removes them after three months — the sort of detail you discover at exactly the wrong moment. If a recording has to outlive a quarter, that retention shape matters more than the headline number of recordings. GetNotes applies no such three-month clock to the meetings in your account.
Governance minutes, not a highlight reel
A trustees' meeting or a project board needs an agreed written record: what was resolved, who owns it, by when. tl;dv's output is built for review — clips, reels, coaching reports — and a set of timestamped moments is not a document you can circulate as minutes. GetNotes writes the summary, decisions and action items with owners in that form directly.
How GetNotes works
- Record or upload. Hit record on your phone or laptop in the room — or drop in an audio file you already have. No bot joins anything.
- It writes it down. Every word transcribed, every speaker labelled, in 90+ languages including ones that switch mid-sentence.
- Share the minutes.Summary, decisions, and action items with owners — ready before everyone's back at their desk.
Questions, answered
Can tl;dv record an in-person meeting?
As of July 2026 tl;dv lists tl;dv Mobile Lite for recording meetings in person, alongside its meeting bot and a botless desktop app. That mobile route is comparatively recent, so trial it on a real meeting first. GetNotes has only ever done in-person capture: open the browser on a phone, hit record, and the room is the recording — no app, no bot, no call.
How much does tl;dv cost compared with GetNotes?
As of July 2026 tl;dv Pro is around $29 billed monthly with an annual rate near $18 a month, though a standing discount runs on the annual price so verify it before buying. GetNotes Pro is $19 a month billed monthly: unlimited meetings, up to three hours per recording, fair-use 25 hours of processed audio a month.
Does GetNotes make highlight clips like tl;dv?
No. Clips, reels and multi-call coaching reports are tl;dv's core strength and GetNotes does not offer them. GetNotes produces a speaker-labelled transcript and written minutes — a summary, the decisions taken, and action items with owners — meant to be shared with the people who were in the room and the ones who missed it.
Can a calling platform block GetNotes the way it can block a notetaker bot?
No. Zoom, Google Meet and Teams all set rules about which third-party participants may join a call, which is a standing risk for any bot-based tool including tl;dv's notetaker. GetNotes never joins a meeting. It records audio in your own browser or ingests a file you upload, so there is no automated participant for a platform to admit or refuse.
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