tl;dv is built around video: clips, highlights, a bot in the call, recordings in its cloud, and AI behind paid tiers. If you want clean notes in a folder you own, with no bot and plain .md your AI can read, Quietly is the simpler tool, for $49 once.
Plain .md. Front-matter has attendees, calendar, duration. Body is clean, LLM-polished Whisper output.
tl;dv's bot joins. Customer calls, candidate interviews, internal 1:1s: each one gets a third participant.
Full video recordings sit in tl;dv's cloud. Good for highlight reels, bad when an exec's 1:1 turns up in a vendor breach.
Pro costs $29 per seat, Business $98. AI summaries, custom reports, and multi-meeting analysis all sit behind paid tiers.
Notes stay inside tl;dv's web app. Cursor, Codex, and Claude can't reach them without an export.
| Quietly | tl;dv | |
|---|---|---|
| No bot joins the call | Bot in every call | |
| Output | Markdown notes | Video clips + transcript |
| Where it lives | Your Mac | tl;dv's cloud |
| MCP for Claude / Cursor / Codex | Shipping next | |
| Open in VS Code / any editor | ||
| Works fully offline | ||
| Sharable video timestamps | No | Yes |
| Pricing | $49 once | Free / $29 / $98 seat |
If you need these, stay on tl;dv.
tl;dv's best feature: trim a 30-second clip from a customer call and drop the link in Slack. Quietly does notes only, with no video clipping.
tl;dv runs on all three. Quietly is macOS-only today.
tl;dv's free tier covers a lot if you can live with the bot, the cloud, and the upsell.
tl;dv makes sense when sharing clips with the team is the point. If you want your own notes searchable in your own tools, the bot is a cost with no upside.
Quietly captures audio on your Mac and writes Markdown. tl;dv records full video and uploads it to its cloud, which is exposure you may not want.
tl;dv Pro costs $348 per seat per year. Quietly costs $49 once. After two months on a single seat, you are ahead, and you stay ahead.
An MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex CLI ships next. Until then, your editor reads the plain Markdown as files. tl;dv's AI features stay inside its app.
Hallway chats, in-person customer meetings, voice memos: open Quietly and press ⌘R for the mic. Pick Transcribe a file… for any audio file. tl;dv expects a Zoom, Meet, or Teams link.
Plain .md in your repo, your iCloud folder, any folder you pick. tl;dv's notes live inside its UI. Quietly's notes start out as files.
Export your tl;dv data. Settings → Export. You get transcripts and metadata. Video clips can stay on tl;dv if you still want them.
Disable the auto-joining notetaker. tl;dv → Settings → Calendar → toggle off. Remove pending bot invites if needed.
Drop the export into your Quietly folder. Cursor, Codex CLI, and Claude Desktop can read your back catalogue.
If you need clip sharing, run tl;dv's free tier alongside Quietly for that one workflow. Questions: support@meetquietly.com.
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