Fireflies vs tl;dv (2026): Full Comparison, Real Pricing Math, and a Botless Third Option
Fireflies vs tl;dv, compared on pricing, free plans, transcription accuracy, video, integrations, security, and sales coaching. We ran one identical call through both and published the outputs. Seven comparison tables, annual cost by team size, a per-category scorecard, and a botless alternative (Scribbl). Last updated June 2026.
Published June 19, 2026
Short answer: pick Fireflies if you want the widest platform coverage (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, dialers), 100-plus transcription languages, and analytics on a lower entry price. Pick tl;dv if your priority is sales coaching and revenue intelligence plus a generous free plan with video recording. Both are good tools, and both put a bot in your call. If the deciding factor for you is that no bot should ever join the meeting, that is a different category, and a botless tool like Scribbl is the cleanest fit: free plan, no credit card, botless capture, with each meeting wired into ChatGPT or Claude so the follow-up work gets done. Below is the full side-by-side, the pricing math by team size, our hands-on read on each, and a clear pick for every use case. Last updated June 2026.
The 60-second verdict (Fireflies vs tl;dv)
Before anything else, here is the impartial head-to-head between the two tools you came to compare. Both are good. They win on different things.
- Wins on: platform breadth (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, dialers) and 100-plus languages
- Price: lower entry (~$10/seat) and lower Business tier (~$19/seat)
- Analytics: conversation intelligence plus the Fred AI assistant
- Weak spot: video recording is limited and audio-first
- Wins on: sales coaching and revenue intelligence (playbooks, scorecards, AI reports)
- Free plan: more generous, unlimited recordings, video included
- Library: video recordings with clips, reels, and jump-to timestamps
- Weak spot: fewer platforms (Zoom, Meet, Teams only) and ~30 languages
In one line: pick Fireflies for the widest platform coverage, the most languages, and the lower price; pick tl;dv for sales coaching, video recording, and the more generous free plan. The full evidence for each of those calls is in the tables and test outputs below.
Fireflies vs tl;dv: the full comparison table
This is the centerpiece. Every row below is unpacked in the sections that follow. We add a third column for Scribbl, the tool we make, only because the most common reason people compare two bot-based notetakers is that they have not realized a botless option exists; if you only want the two-tool answer, read the Fireflies and tl;dv columns and skip ours.
| Feature | Scribbl | Fireflies | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bot joins the call | No (botless) | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan (no credit card) | Limited | Unlimited recordings | |
| Entry paid tier (annual) | See pricing | ~$10/seat/mo | ~$18/seat/mo |
| Business/Team tier (annual) | See pricing | ~$19/seat/mo | ~$29/seat/mo |
| Video recording | Roadmap | Limited / higher tier | |
| Meeting platforms | Meet, Zoom, Teams | ~9 (adds Webex, dialers) | Zoom, Meet, Teams |
| Transcription languages | Multilingual | 100+ | 30+ |
| Transcription accuracy (clean audio) | Strong tier | Strong tier | Strong tier |
| AI summaries + custom templates | |||
| CRM (Salesforce / HubSpot) | Via ChatGPT/Claude | ||
| Sales coaching (playbooks, scorecards) | Via your AI | Lighter | Core strength |
| Connects to ChatGPT or Claude | – | – | |
| G2 rating (approx.) | 5.0 (3,000 reviews) | ~4.7 | ~4.7 |
What the same call produced
No competitor on this query publishes the actual output of a real test. We did. We ran one identical 38-minute discovery call (two speakers, a mid-call screen share, several product names and two dates) through Fireflies and tl;dv on the same day, untouched. Below are faithful reproductions of what each tool returned, so you can judge structure, speaker labeling, and action-item detection yourself rather than trust a headline percentage. These are annotated illustrations of the output layout, not pixel screenshots of a third party's app.
Discovery call: Acme x Northwind
Overview: The teams reviewed Northwind's onboarding timeline and pricing. Acme raised a data-migration concern; Northwind committed to a security review by June 27.
Notes by topic
- Pricing: discussed seat tiers; Northwind to send a revised quote.
- Migration: Acme flagged legacy CRM export; needs a sandbox.
- Timeline: target go-live early Q3.
Action items
- Northwind: send revised quote (owner: Priya)
- Acme: provide CRM export sample (owner: Sam)
Speaker talk-time: Sam 54%, Priya 46%. Sentiment: positive.
Discovery call: Acme x Northwind (recording, 38:12)
Chapters
- 00:00 Intros
- 04:30 Pricing and seat tiers
- 18:10 Data migration concern
- 29:40 Timeline and next steps
Summary (Sales discovery template)
- Pain: legacy CRM export, manual onboarding.
- Budget: seat-based, revised quote pending.
- Next step: security review by June 27.
Coaching: talk ratio 1.2 : 1, monologue longest 2m10s, discovery questions 6. Scorecard: Rapport ok, Next-step set.
- Speaker labeling: correctly separated both speakers; one short crosstalk line was merged
- Structure: topic-grouped notes plus clean action items with owners
- Extras: talk-time and sentiment surfaced by default
- Miss: one product name transcribed phonetically; no video to scrub back to
- Speaker labeling: matched Fireflies, same one merged crosstalk line
- Structure: templated discovery summary plus timestamped video chapters
- Extras: coaching panel with talk ratio, monologue length, scorecard
- Miss: same product-name slip; summary template imposed sales framing on a partly technical call
The honest takeaway: on a clean two-person English call, transcription quality was a wash. The difference is what sits around the transcript. Fireflies hands you analytics; tl;dv hands you a video you can scrub plus a coaching scorecard. Neither invented facts on this call, but tl;dv's template did force a sales shape onto content that was half technical, which is worth knowing if your meetings are not all sales.
The fork most comparisons skip: bot vs botless
Both Fireflies and tl;dv, in their common configurations, work by sending an AI assistant into the meeting. It dials in, appears in the participant list, and on some platforms it has to be admitted. That is genuinely convenient: one bot can cover Zoom, Meet, and Teams from a single dashboard, and it records even if you forget. But it also changes the room. On an external sales call, a first client meeting, or a sensitive internal review, a named recording bot on the roster is something people notice and sometimes object to. A bot is also a participant, which means it can fail to join, be denied admission, or get blocked by meeting controls.
A botless tool captures what you already see and hear without adding anyone. Scribbl runs as a browser extension on Google Meet, so there is no extra participant, no admission step, and any participant can record their own view without a host or admin changing a setting. We go deeper in our botless AI notetaker explainer. This is not a knock on Fireflies or tl;dv; for internal team calls a bot is often fine. It is simply the first question to answer, because it shapes everything else.
Pricing, tier by tier
Both vendors price per seat per month, cheaper on annual billing. The numbers below are approximate for June 2026 and you should confirm them on each vendor's pricing page, because they change often.
- Free plan. tl;dv has the more generous free tier, commonly cited with unlimited recordings and transcriptions and video included, leaning toward its recording-library and sales workflow. Fireflies free is more limited on stored recordings and transcription credits but gives you a taste of its analytics.
- Entry paid tier. Fireflies is the cheaper entry point, commonly cited around $10 per seat per month on annual billing. tl;dv's comparable tier is commonly cited around $18 per seat per month on annual billing.
- Business / Team tier. Fireflies Business is commonly cited around $19 per seat per month, tl;dv's business tier around $29 per seat per month, both on annual billing.
- Enterprise. Both offer custom enterprise pricing with SSO/SAML, advanced admin, and security controls, quoted on request rather than published.
The headline: Fireflies is cheaper at every paid tier; tl;dv is cheaper (or free) for a single light user because of its unlimited-recording free plan.
Annual cost by team size
Per-seat differences look small until you multiply by headcount and twelve months. Using the approximate annual-billing entry tiers above (Fireflies ~$10/seat/mo, tl;dv ~$18/seat/mo), here is the yearly bill at common team sizes. Scribbl's free plan is $0 for the botless workflow, with paid Team plans on the pricing page.
| Feature | Scribbl (free) | Fireflies (~$10) | tl;dv (~$18) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $0 | ~$120/yr | ~$216/yr |
| 3 people | $0 | ~$360/yr | ~$648/yr |
| 5 people | $0 | ~$600/yr | ~$1,080/yr |
| 10 people | $0 | ~$1,200/yr | ~$2,160/yr |
| 25 people | $0 | ~$3,000/yr | ~$5,400/yr |
A 10-person team is looking at roughly a thousand-dollar annual gap between Fireflies and tl;dv at the entry tier, before either adds higher-tier coaching or analytics features. If your reason for buying is purely clean notes and follow-up, a free botless tool removes the per-seat math entirely; if you need tl;dv's coaching hub, that is what the premium buys.
Free plans compared
The free plan is where the two tools diverge most.
| Feature | Scribbl | Fireflies | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credit card required | – | – | – |
| Recordings | Free plan included | Limited | Unlimited |
| Transcriptions | Credit-limited | Unlimited | |
| Video recording | Roadmap | Limited | |
| AI summary / notes | |||
| Bot in the call | No (botless) | Yes | Yes |
| Connects to ChatGPT/Claude | – | – |
If your goal is to try real meeting notes for free and never think about credits, tl;dv's unlimited free recordings and Scribbl's free botless plan are the two standouts. Fireflies free is best read as a sampler of its paid analytics. None of the three require a credit card to start.
Transcription accuracy and languages
Both vendors cite accuracy in the mid-90s percent range on clean audio, and on a clear single-speaker English call they land close. In our June 2026 testing every tool slipped on heavy crosstalk, thick accents, and dense product jargon, which is why we report accuracy as a tier (strong / mixed) rather than a single decimal. Do not let a headline percentage decide this for you; run one real call with your own accents and product names and read the output.
Where they genuinely differ is language coverage. Fireflies is commonly cited supporting 100-plus languages, tl;dv around 30-plus. If your meetings are multilingual or in a less common language, that gap is the clearest reason to favor Fireflies. Both offer real-time transcription during the call.
Video recording
This is a clean win for tl;dv. tl;dv is built around a video recording library: it records video on free and paid plans, and lets you cut clips and reels and jump to timestamps to share moments out of a call. Fireflies is audio-and-transcript first; video recording is a known weakness and, where available, tends to sit on higher tiers rather than the entry or free plan. If a searchable, shareable video library is core to how your team revisits calls, tl;dv is the stronger fit. Confirm current per-tier video availability on each site, since plans change.
Meeting platforms and integrations
Platforms. Fireflies covers more sources: it is commonly cited working across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and dial-in or phone systems (roughly nine). tl;dv focuses on the big three: Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. If your team lives on Webex or dialers, Fireflies has the edge; if you only use Zoom, Meet, and Teams, the difference is moot.
Integrations. Both connect to Salesforce and HubSpot, Slack, and a wide app ecosystem via native integrations and Zapier (tl;dv markets a very large app reach through Zapier-style connectors). Both push notes and action items to where your team works. The practical question is whether the specific objects and fields you need are supported, so check each tool's current integration page against your exact stack.
| Feature | Scribbl | Fireflies | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce | Via ChatGPT/Claude | ||
| HubSpot | Via ChatGPT/Claude | ||
| Slack / email recap | |||
| Calendar (Google / Outlook) | |||
| Zapier / app marketplace | Via your AI | Large app reach | |
| Native CRM field write-back | Drafted, you paste | ||
| ChatGPT / Claude as the workspace | – | – |
Scribbl takes a different path here. Instead of native CRM writeback, it connects your meeting to the AI you already use, ChatGPT or Claude, so the follow-up email and CRM-ready notes get drafted from what was actually said, and you paste them where they belong. If automatic CRM field updates are your hard requirement, the bot-based tools (or a dedicated revenue platform) go deeper.
AI summaries, notes, and templates
All three generate AI summaries with key points, action items, and (for Fireflies and tl;dv) jump-to timestamps tied to the recording. Both Fireflies and tl;dv support custom meeting templates so the summary structure fits your meeting type, plus action-item detection. Fireflies adds its Fred AI assistant for asking questions across meetings and its Soundbites and Live Assist features. tl;dv leans into meeting templates and AI reports.
Scribbl's difference is that the summary is not the end of the line. Because each meeting is wired into ChatGPT or Claude, you can take the recap into a drafted follow-up, a tailored proposal, or a CRM note in one move, rather than re-reading a transcript and rewriting it yourself. The goal is that the work gets done, not just the notes.
Sales coaching and conversation intelligence
This is tl;dv's biggest differentiator versus Fireflies. tl;dv is built around a sales coaching hub: playbooks, scorecards, talk-time and sentiment analysis, AI coaching reports, and multi-meeting deal and revenue insights. If you run a sales or CS team and want to coach reps off real calls, tl;dv markets this hardest and it is the reason many sales teams shortlist it.
Fireflies has conversation intelligence too, topic tracking, talk-time, sentiment, and the Fred AI assistant, but it positions itself more as a broad meeting assistant than a dedicated coaching platform. Neither competes with heavyweight revenue intelligence like Gong on deal scoring and pipeline forecasting; both are far lighter and far cheaper, which is the point.
| Feature | Scribbl | Fireflies | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talk-time / talk ratio | Via your AI | ||
| Sentiment analysis | Via your AI | ||
| Topic / keyword tracking | Via your AI | ||
| Coaching scorecards | Via your AI | Lighter | |
| Playbooks / call frameworks | Via your AI | Lighter | |
| AI coaching reports | – | Lighter | |
| Multi-meeting deal / revenue insights | Via your AI | General | Core strength |
| Ask-across-meetings AI assistant | ChatGPT/Claude | Fred AI |
If your team sells and you want the no-bot version of this, the Scribbl for sales page shows the botless flow on prospect calls, where your meeting feeds ChatGPT or Claude to draft the recap and next steps without a recorder announced to the buyer.
Multi-meeting and aggregate insights
Both tools can pull insights across multiple meetings: tl;dv via its deal and revenue views and AI reports across a set of calls, Fireflies via Fred AI answering questions across your meeting history and its analytics dashboards. For a sales leader watching a pipeline or a team reviewing themes across many calls, tl;dv's revenue-oriented aggregation is the more deliberate fit; Fireflies aggregation is more general-purpose. Verify the depth against your reporting needs, because both are evolving quickly.
Security and compliance
Both vendors publicly cite SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, with SSO/SAML and advanced admin controls generally living on their business or enterprise tiers. Data-for-training policies and retention windows differ between the two and change over time. If you are in a regulated industry, read each tool's current security page (Fireflies security, tl;dv security) and data processing agreement, and explicitly confirm whether your meeting data is used to train models and how long recordings are retained, before you commit.
| Feature | Scribbl | Fireflies | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Confirm on site | ||
| GDPR | Confirm on site | ||
| SSO / SAML | Confirm on site | Higher tier | Higher tier |
| Admin console / roles | Org controls | ||
| Opt out of model training | No bot, no shared room | Check policy | Check policy |
| Configurable data retention | Check policy | Check policy | Check policy |
| Nothing joins the call | – | – |
Pros and cons
- Lowest entry price (~$10/seat) and lower Business tier
- Widest platform coverage incl. Webex and dialers
- 100-plus transcription languages
- Fred AI assistant and conversation analytics
- Video recording is limited and audio-first
- Free plan is capped on recordings and transcription credits
- Bot joins the call as a visible participant
- Coaching is lighter than tl;dv's dedicated hub
- Generous free plan with unlimited recordings and video
- Best-in-class sales coaching, playbooks, and scorecards
- Video library with clips, reels, and jump-to timestamps
- Large app reach via Zapier-style connectors
- More expensive at every paid tier (~$18 then ~$29/seat)
- Fewer platforms (Zoom, Meet, Teams only)
- Fewer languages (~30+ vs 100+)
- Bot joins the call as a visible participant
Scorecard: who wins each category
Tallying the sections above into a transparent per-category call. This is our judgment, not a vendor's self-score; we mark a clear winner only where the evidence is one-sided, and call ties honestly.
| Feature | Fireflies | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|
| Price (every paid tier) | Winner | – |
| Free plan generosity | – | Winner |
| Transcription accuracy | Tie | Tie |
| Language coverage | Winner | – |
| Video recording | – | Winner |
| Meeting platform breadth | Winner | – |
| Integrations | Tie | Tie |
| Sales coaching / revenue intel | – | Winner |
| Conversation analytics depth | Tie | Tie |
| Security / compliance | Tie | Tie |
Tallying it up: Fireflies takes price, languages, and platform breadth; tl;dv takes the free plan, video, and sales coaching; the rest are close. That is why the right answer is use-case driven, not a single trophy. The neutral way to break the remaining tie is the test outputs above: read both and see which shape fits your meetings.
The third option: Scribbl, the botless pick
Scribbl is for people who want clean notes and real follow-up without a bot in the call. It captures Google Meet through a Chrome extension and never dials anyone in, so there is no participant named after the tool in the roster and no email sent to attendees. There is a free plan with no credit card, Meet is covered by the Chrome extension, and the desktop app adds Zoom and Microsoft Teams on any paid plan.
What sets it apart from Fireflies and tl;dv is what happens after the call. Rather than leaving you a transcript or a dashboard to comb through, Scribbl connects each meeting to the AI you already use, ChatGPT or Claude, so the recap gets drafted, the action items get pulled, and the follow-up gets written. It is rated 5.0 from 3,000 reviews and used across more than 10,000 organizations. See the Scribbl vs Fireflies and Scribbl vs tl;dv head-to-heads for the direct comparisons, or the pricing page for plans.
Who should pick which
- Pick Fireflies if you want the widest platform coverage (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, dialers), 100-plus transcription languages, and solid analytics at the lowest entry price, and a bot in the meeting is fine.
- Pick tl;dv if your priority is sales coaching and revenue intelligence (playbooks, scorecards, AI reports), you want a video recording library with clips, and a generous free plan, and you are comfortable with a bot on the call.
- Pick Scribbl if a recorder showing up in the participant list is a dealbreaker, you want a free plan with no credit card, you meet on Google Meet (plus Zoom and Teams on the Team plan), and you want each meeting wired into ChatGPT or Claude so the follow-up actually happens.
Still deciding between the bot-based tools and a botless one? Our roundups of the best botless meeting recorders and the best AI notetaker with no bot widen the field. If you have already ruled one out, see our Fireflies alternative and tl;dv alternative guides.
Other alternatives worth a look
Fireflies and tl;dv are not the only two notetakers, and the right tool sometimes sits outside both. A quick map of where the common alternatives fit so you can shortlist faster:
- Otter.ai: strong live transcription and a familiar free tier; leans note-and-transcript, lighter on sales coaching. A frequent Fireflies cross-shop.
- Fathom: popular free plan and fast summaries; bot-based, Zoom/Meet/Teams focused.
- Avoma: heavier revenue-intelligence and scheduling suite; closer to the Gong end than to tl;dv, priced accordingly.
- MeetGeek, Fellow, Sembly: meeting-management and notes tools with their own niches (agendas, team workflows, automation).
- Krisp, Jamie: capture or noise-cancellation angles for people who want notes without the full platform.
- Gong / Chorus: enterprise revenue intelligence; far deeper deal scoring and forecasting, far more expensive than either tool here.
- Scribbl: the botless option in this set; nothing joins the call, free plan, and each meeting wired into ChatGPT or Claude.
If your real requirement is "no recorder visible in the room," most of the bot-based names above land in the same bucket as Fireflies and tl;dv, which is why the bot-vs-botless fork is worth settling first.
FAQ
Fireflies or tl;dv: which is better in 2026?
It depends on the job. Pick Fireflies if you want the widest meeting-platform coverage (Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex, dialers), 100-plus transcription languages, and built-in conversation analytics on a lower entry price. Pick tl;dv if your priority is sales coaching and revenue intelligence (playbooks, scorecards, AI coaching reports) and a generous free tier with unlimited recordings. Both put a bot in the call. If you would rather no bot ever joined the meeting, a botless tool like Scribbl is a different category: it captures Google Meet through a Chrome extension, has a free plan with no credit card, and connects each meeting to ChatGPT or Claude so the follow-up work gets done. Disclosure: we make Scribbl, so weigh our pick accordingly and run one real call on each.
Is Fireflies cheaper than tl;dv?
On the entry paid tier, Fireflies is commonly cited lower (around 10 dollars per seat per month on annual billing) than tl;dv (around 18 dollars per seat per month on annual billing). At the next tier the gap stays in Fireflies favor (Business around 19 dollars versus tl;dv around 29 dollars). But tl;dv has a more generous free plan with unlimited recordings, so for a one-person, light-use case tl;dv can be cheaper or free. Prices change often and vary by billing term, so confirm current numbers on each vendor's pricing page before you buy.
Does Fireflies or tl;dv have a better free plan?
tl;dv has the more generous free plan in 2026, commonly cited with unlimited recordings and transcriptions, where Fireflies free plan is more limited on stored recordings and transcription credits. The trade-off is that tl;dv free leans toward its recording-library and sales workflow, while Fireflies free gives you a taste of its analytics. Confirm current free-tier caps on each site, because they change frequently. If you want a free plan that never puts a bot in the call, Scribbl is botless and needs no credit card.
Does Fireflies or tl;dv support more meeting platforms?
Fireflies supports more platforms. It is commonly cited working across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and dial-in or phone systems, roughly nine sources. tl;dv focuses on the big three: Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams. If your team lives on Webex or dialers, Fireflies has the edge. If you only use Zoom, Meet, and Teams, the platform gap does not matter.
Which has better sales coaching, Fireflies or tl;dv?
tl;dv leans harder into sales coaching and revenue intelligence. It is built around playbooks, scorecards, talk-time and sentiment analysis, AI coaching reports, and multi-meeting deal insights, which is its biggest differentiator versus Fireflies. Fireflies has conversation intelligence too (topic tracking, talk-time, sentiment, and its Fred AI assistant), but tl;dv markets the coaching hub more aggressively. For heavyweight deal and pipeline intelligence at enterprise scale, neither competes with Gong; both are lighter and far cheaper.
Do Fireflies and tl;dv put a bot in the meeting?
Yes. In their common configurations both join your call as a visible AI assistant that appears in the participant list and may need to be admitted. That is fine for internal calls but it changes the room on an external sales or first-client call. Scribbl is botless by design, so nothing ever joins the meeting; it captures Google Meet through a Chrome extension instead. Whichever tool you pick, recording laws vary by region, so disclose that you are recording and get consent.
What is the transcription accuracy of Fireflies vs tl;dv?
Both vendors cite accuracy in the mid-90s percent range on clean audio, and in practice they land close on a clear single-speaker English call. Accuracy depends heavily on audio quality, accents, jargon, and crosstalk, so no single tool wins every call. We report accuracy as relative tiers rather than a single decimal, because one number implies more precision than a fair test supports. The honest test is to run one real call with your own product names and accents through each tool and read the output yourself.
Does Fireflies or tl;dv record video?
tl;dv records video on its free and paid plans and is built around a video recording library with clips and reels. Fireflies focuses on audio and transcripts; video recording is a known weakness and, where available, tends to sit on higher tiers rather than the free or entry plan. If a searchable video library with shareable clips is core to your workflow, tl;dv is the stronger fit. Confirm current video availability per tier on each vendor's site, because plans change.
What is a good botless alternative to Fireflies and tl;dv?
Scribbl is a botless alternative: no bot ever joins the call, nothing is announced, and no email is sent to attendees. It has a free plan with no credit card, works with Google Meet through a Chrome extension (and adds Zoom and Microsoft Teams through its desktop app), and connects each meeting to ChatGPT or Claude so the recap, action items, and follow-up actually get written. It is rated 5.0 from 3,000 reviews and used across more than 10,000 organizations. Disclosure: we make Scribbl. Run one real call on the free plan and compare.
Are Fireflies and tl;dv secure and compliant (SOC 2, GDPR)?
Both vendors publicly cite SOC 2 and GDPR compliance, with SSO/SAML and admin controls generally on their higher business or enterprise tiers. Data-for-training and retention policies differ and change over time, so if you are in a regulated industry, read each tool's current security page and data processing agreement and confirm whether your data is used to train models before you commit.
Did Fireflies and tl;dv produce different notes on the same call?
Yes, but not where most people expect. We ran one identical 38-minute discovery call through both. On clean two-speaker English audio the transcription quality was effectively a wash; both separated speakers correctly and both slipped on the same one product name. The real difference was the wrapper. Fireflies returned topic-grouped notes with action items, talk-time, and sentiment. tl;dv returned a templated discovery summary with timestamped video chapters and a coaching scorecard, though its sales template imposed a sales shape on content that was half technical. See the side-by-side test outputs in the post.
What is the best alternative to both Fireflies and tl;dv?
It depends on what is missing for you. If you want deeper enterprise revenue intelligence, Gong or Avoma go further (and cost more). If you want a simple free notetaker, Otter and Fathom are common picks. If the deciding factor is that no bot should ever join the call, the alternative is a botless tool: Scribbl captures Google Meet through a Chrome extension with nothing in the participant list, has a free plan with no credit card, and connects each meeting to ChatGPT or Claude so the follow-up gets written. Disclosure: we make Scribbl.
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