# Notion AI vs tl;dv: pricing, features, and which is better > Notion AI Meeting Notes and tl;dv compared across pricing, capture, speaker labels, recordings, notes, sharing, automations, integrations, AI-agent access, and administration. - Canonical HTML: https://circleback.ai/compare/notion-meeting-recorder-vs-tldv - Structured JSON: https://circleback.ai/compare/notion-meeting-recorder-vs-tldv.json - Comparison directory: https://circleback.ai/compare - Language: en-US - Editorial perspective: Neutral competitor comparison. Circleback appears only as a clearly labeled third option. ## Short answer Notion AI turns a call into a page inside an existing workspace. tl;dv keeps a richer recording library with clips, reels, and recurring multi-meeting reports. The useful buying test is to run both products on the same external call, internal planning session, and noisy in-person meeting. Compare the result, the sharing defaults, and the work that still has to happen by hand. ## Notion AI Meeting Notes at a glance Notion AI Meeting Notes is compelling because there is almost no new destination to adopt: a transcript and summary become a Notion page next to projects and docs. It is a document-first meeting layer rather than an automatic company-wide meeting system, with important capture, speaker, sharing, and playback limits. **Best for:** Notion-centric people and teams that mainly want a meeting page beside existing docs and do not need durable video, broad capture automation, enforced sharing, or meeting-specific workflows. **Less ideal for:** Teams that need reliably labeled group speakers, persistent recordings, scheduled autonomous capture, mobile capture of other apps, enforced auto-sharing, or CRM-grade post-meeting automations. **Price:** Included with Notion Business at $20/member/month annually; Enterprise is custom AI Meeting Notes requires a Business or Enterprise workspace. Business is listed at $20 per member per month with annual billing. That can be useful bundled value for a team already paying for Notion, but it is not included on Free or Plus and every workspace member is a paid seat. **Free option:** No: the meeting-notes feature requires Business or Enterprise. ### Notion AI Meeting Notes strengths - Notes land directly in Notion databases, pages, projects, and permissions without a separate meeting library. - Bot-free system-audio capture on the desktop app avoids adding a visible meeting participant. - Custom summary instructions, transcript citations, file upload, and Notion AI make the output immediately useful in an existing knowledge base. - Meeting notes generate action items, and Notion Agent can help add owners, priorities, and due dates or update connected Notion projects. - The public API exposes full meeting transcripts, while Notion MCP, its first-party CLI, and beta Workers give developers and agents broad access to read, update, and extend the surrounding workspace. - Notion and its AI subprocessors do not train on customer data by default; Enterprise workspaces also use zero-retention LLM-provider processing by default. ### Notion AI Meeting Notes tradeoffs - The feature is still labeled beta, has a ten-hour daily limit, and is not available offline. - Browser and mobile capture are microphone-only, so they cannot hear audio from another meeting app on the same device. - Speaker labeling is most reliable for desktop virtual one-on-ones, is English-only, and can be unreliable for group or in-person meetings. - There is no durable collaborative meeting video, synchronized playback, moments, or clips; local audio is optional and temporary. ### Choose Notion AI Meeting Notes when - Your team already runs its knowledge base in Notion Business or Enterprise. - You prefer starting a bot-free note manually and care more about the resulting page than a recording library. - The meeting output mostly needs to become project documentation, not trigger a chain of CRM or operational actions. ## tl;dv at a glance tl;dv combines unlimited meeting recording on its free tier with clips, reels, recurring reports, playbooks, and sales coaching. Its newer bot-free desktop mode broadens capture, but that mode is audio-only and drops video, screen share, and chat. **Best for:** Individuals and customer-facing teams that want a generous free recorder, easy clips, recurring multi-meeting reports, and optional sales playbooks. **Less ideal for:** Teams that need a mature mobile rollout, video in bot-free mode, stable API contracts, durable free-plan retention, or one cross-functional company context layer. **Price:** Free; Pro from $18/user/month annually; Business from $29 annually Free includes unlimited recordings and transcripts, but recordings are retained for three months, older recordings are archived shortly after processing, advanced AI credits are lifetime-limited, and after the first ten meetings generated notes cover only the first ten minutes. Paid prices are per user/month: Pro is $18 with annual billing or $29 month-to-month; Business is $29 or $39. Enterprise is quoted separately. **Free option:** Yes: unlimited recordings and transcripts, with retention, archive, AI-note, credit, duration, and concurrency limits. ### tl;dv strengths - One of the broadest free recording and transcription allowances, despite meaningful retention and AI-output limits. - Strong clips, reels, highlights, multi-meeting reports, playbooks, and sales coaching workflows. - Bot and bot-free macOS/Windows capture now sit beside an early mobile recorder for in-person conversations. - Recurring AI reports and conditional Slack workflows are particularly good at turning many calls into a compact digest with decisions and owner/deadline action lists. ### tl;dv tradeoffs - Bot-free capture is audio-only: no video, screen sharing, or meeting chat is preserved. - The newly documented mobile recorder is still described as an early-stage testing experience rather than a mature production path. - Free recordings are retained for three months and quickly archived; after the first ten meetings, generated notes cover only the first ten minutes. - The public API is labeled v1alpha1, and MCP searches typically return at most 50 meetings per query. - There is no bulk meeting export in the product. Individual recording downloads require both owner and downloader to be on a paid plan, plus editor or admin access. - The domain-level Organization is automatic rather than a governed tenant: any same-domain user can join it and the Organization itself cannot be deleted. Paid Teams provide the actual admin hierarchy. - Several advanced AI, sales, and multilingual capabilities are reserved for higher plans. - tl;dv can extract assigned action lists and send them elsewhere, but it does not document a native workspace-wide task system with assignee queues, status, due dates, and completion tracking. ### Choose tl;dv when - Unlimited free recording matters more than unlimited AI notes. - Your workflow revolves around clips, playlists, sales playbooks, and recurring topic reports. - You are comfortable using a bot when video, screen share, and chat need to be retained. ## Feature comparison | What matters | Notion AI Meeting Notes | tl;dv | | --- | --- | --- | | Capture options | Available with limits — Manual bot-free capture plus audio-file upload. The Notion desktop app records microphone and system audio without a bot, and supported AAC, M4A, MP3, or WAV files can be uploaded. There is no scheduled notetaker that autonomously joins calls when the user is absent. | Broad support — Meeting bot or bot-free desktop recording. macOS and Windows can capture system audio from any meeting platform without a bot. The bot remains the richer mode for supported conferencing platforms. | | Desktop and mobile | Available with limits — macOS, Windows, browser, iOS, and Android—with different audio access. Only the desktop apps capture system audio. Browser and mobile use the microphone, so they cannot capture another conferencing app playing on the same device. | Available with limits — Web, Chrome, macOS, Windows, and an early mobile app. Desktop capture is broad. tl;dv now documents a mobile app for in-person meetings, but describes it as recently launched, early-stage, and available for testing. | | In-person capture and speaker labels | Available with limits — Mobile and desktop microphone capture. Mobile is suitable for in-person notes, but group speaker labeling is less reliable and browser/mobile sessions cannot capture audio from other apps. | Available with limits — Desktop microphone or early-stage mobile recording. A laptop can capture room audio and the newer mobile app can record in-person meetings. tl;dv documents speaker identification generally but does not explain whether the early mobile path preserves the same naming behavior, so test it before a broad rollout. There is no documented Watch capture. | | Recordings, playback, and clips | Narrow or indirect — Transcript-first; no durable shared video library. The transcript and summary become a page. Optional local audio is off by default and only the ten most recent recordings are kept on the recorder’s device; there is no synchronized collaborative video playback or clip workflow. | Broad support — Rich playback, clips, and reels—with a botless video caveat. Bot recordings support video, transcript, clips, reels, and shareable moments. Bot-free recordings are audio-only and omit video, screen sharing, and chat. | | Notes, action items, and search | Broad support — Strong summaries, action items, and search inside the workspace. Custom instructions, AI summaries, action items, and transcript citations work well. Notion Agent can help turn actions into tasks with owners, priorities, and dates, while workspace search reaches the surrounding project context. The action step is agent-assisted rather than an automatic meeting-specific task lifecycle. | Broad support — AI notes, action digests, multi-meeting reports, and topic tracking. The product is particularly good at synthesizing multiple meetings and turning recurring prompts into reports, including action lists grouped by person and date. Those are report or checklist outputs rather than a native task lifecycle with workspace queues and completion state. Free accounts get a limited number of AI notes. | | People, companies, and context | Available with limits — Meeting pages inherit the surrounding Notion knowledge base. This is the core appeal: meetings can sit beside projects, docs, and databases. It does not build meeting-specific person/company timelines or combine email and calendar relationship history automatically. | Available with limits — Meeting library and multi-meeting synthesis. tl;dv can query and report across accessible meetings, but it does not present a broader email/calendar/person/company relationship memory as its core model. | | Automatic sharing and workspace defaults | Narrow or indirect — Private by default; page permissions and personal auto-share rules. Notes start private and can be moved or shared through normal Notion permissions. Auto-sharing is configured by the individual, not enforced as a workspace-wide meeting-sharing policy. | Broad support — Granular team privacy defaults and automatic sharing. Teams can automatically share with participants, publish to a team or organization library, and apply admin privacy rules using meeting context such as title, internal or external type, and team role. Sensitive categories can remain private by rule. | | Automations | Available with limits — Agent, database, webhook, and Worker automations. Notion Agent can assign tasks, add priorities and due dates, update project status, and draft follow-up from the resulting page. Beta Workers can receive webhooks, run code, update Notion, and call external APIs. These are capable general workspace primitives, but Notion does not document a comparable automatic meeting condition/action builder that extracts fields and routes every matching meeting by default; Workers also began consuming Notion credits in August 2026. | Broad support — Recurring AI reports and sales workflows. Automated multi-meeting reports, playbooks, CRM updates, and conditional Slack posts are useful, especially for customer-facing teams. Slack workflows can format decisions and action items with owners and deadlines, but team workflow scope excludes team admins and billing-group admins, and the overall system is less open-ended than a general meeting condition/action builder. | | Integrations | Available with limits — Notion ecosystem, API, MCP, CLI, Workers, and connectors. Connections come through the broader Notion ecosystem, API, MCP, CLI, Workers, automations, and integration tools. That is now a substantial developer platform, though follow-through is more general-purpose than a meeting-specific CRM or issue-tracker handoff configured from the recorder. | Available with limits — CRM and collaboration integrations on paid plans. tl;dv connects to common CRMs and work tools; exact access varies by plan. The catalog is oriented around GTM and collaboration workflows. | | API, MCP, CLI, and data portability | Broad support — Public API, MCP, and CLI expose meeting notes and transcripts. Notion’s 2026 API has a meeting-notes block and query endpoint for metadata, summaries, notes, action items, and full transcripts; page Markdown can include the transcript explicitly. Notion MCP can query meeting notes and fetch transcripts with the connected user’s permissions. Its first-party CLI can read and take action in the workspace and build or deploy Workers. This is a strong document-and-meeting developer surface, though it does not expose a retained recording library or meeting-specific person/company graph. | Available with limits — MCP on Pro+ and a public alpha API. MCP can search meetings and participants, with typical result sets capped at 50. A subtle access rule matters: viewing a shared meeting is not enough if its organizer is on Free—the organizer must have Pro or higher before that meeting is available through MCP or the API. The API is documented as v1alpha1 and includes recording downloads, so integration teams should expect contract evolution. | | Security, privacy, and admin | Available with limits — Notion workspace controls plus Enterprise transcript deletion. Normal page permissions and workspace governance apply. Enterprise admins can configure transcript deletion and get zero-retention LLM-provider processing by default; providers may retain customer data for up to 30 days on non-Enterprise workspaces. Meeting-specific enforced sharing and capture defaults remain limited. | Available with limits — Paid Team controls, with a looser domain Organization layer. Paid Teams add roles, billing administration, and forward-looking defaults; team settings do not override Team Admins. The separate domain-based Organization has no organization-wide admin defaults, any same-domain user can join it, and it cannot be deleted. Multi-team management is Business-only. | | Languages | Narrow or indirect — 19 supported transcription languages plus three in beta; speaker labeling is English-only. Notion documents 19 supported meeting-note languages and three additional languages in beta. Speaker labeling is English-only and is most reliable for desktop virtual one-on-ones; group, browser, mobile, and in-person sessions can be unreliable. | Available with limits — Multilingual transcription; advanced multilingual mode is plan-gated. Language selection behavior varies by capture mode, and the multilingual Whisper option is documented for Business and Enterprise. | Ratings describe documented breadth rather than overall product quality: - **Broad support:** Broad native support across the product or relevant paid plans. - **Available with limits:** Documented support with meaningful scope, mode, or plan limits. - **Narrow or indirect:** Narrow, indirect, beta, or substantially plan-gated support. - **Not documented:** No current first-party documentation for a native option. ## Detailed analysis ### Capture options **tl;dv has broader documented support for capture options.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Manual bot-free capture plus audio-file upload. The Notion desktop app records microphone and system audio without a bot, and supported AAC, M4A, MP3, or WAV files can be uploaded. There is no scheduled notetaker that autonomously joins calls when the user is absent. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** Meeting bot or bot-free desktop recording. macOS and Windows can capture system audio from any meeting platform without a bot. The bot remains the richer mode for supported conferencing platforms. Evidence: [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot). ### Desktop and mobile **Both products support desktop and mobile, with different scope and plan limits.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** macOS, Windows, browser, iOS, and Android—with different audio access. Only the desktop apps capture system audio. Browser and mobile use the microphone, so they cannot capture another conferencing app playing on the same device. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** Web, Chrome, macOS, Windows, and an early mobile app. Desktop capture is broad. tl;dv now documents a mobile app for in-person meetings, but describes it as recently launched, early-stage, and available for testing. Evidence: [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot), [tl;dv mobile app](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8490450-mobile-app). ### In-person capture and speaker labels **Both products support in-person capture and speaker labels, with different scope and plan limits.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Mobile and desktop microphone capture. Mobile is suitable for in-person notes, but group speaker labeling is less reliable and browser/mobile sessions cannot capture audio from other apps. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** Desktop microphone or early-stage mobile recording. A laptop can capture room audio and the newer mobile app can record in-person meetings. tl;dv documents speaker identification generally but does not explain whether the early mobile path preserves the same naming behavior, so test it before a broad rollout. There is no documented Watch capture. Evidence: [tl;dv mobile app](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8490450-mobile-app), [tl;dv speaker identification](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6171907-speaker-identification-in-transcript). ### Recordings, playback, and clips **tl;dv has broader documented support for recordings, playback, and clips.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Transcript-first; no durable shared video library. The transcript and summary become a page. Optional local audio is off by default and only the ten most recent recordings are kept on the recorder’s device; there is no synchronized collaborative video playback or clip workflow. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** Rich playback, clips, and reels—with a botless video caveat. Bot recordings support video, transcript, clips, reels, and shareable moments. Bot-free recordings are audio-only and omit video, screen sharing, and chat. Evidence: [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot), [tl;dv free-plan limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8919450-what-are-the-limits-of-the-free-plan). ### Notes, action items, and search **Both products document broad support for notes, action items, and search, with different scope and plan limits.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Strong summaries, action items, and search inside the workspace. Custom instructions, AI summaries, action items, and transcript citations work well. Notion Agent can help turn actions into tasks with owners, priorities, and dates, while workspace search reaches the surrounding project context. The action step is agent-assisted rather than an automatic meeting-specific task lifecycle. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes), [Notion AI Meeting Notes product](https://www.notion.com/product/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** AI notes, action digests, multi-meeting reports, and topic tracking. The product is particularly good at synthesizing multiple meetings and turning recurring prompts into reports, including action lists grouped by person and date. Those are report or checklist outputs rather than a native task lifecycle with workspace queues and completion state. Free accounts get a limited number of AI notes. Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv free-plan limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8919450-what-are-the-limits-of-the-free-plan), [tl;dv AI prompts](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/9235713-ai-prompts-inspiration). ### People, companies, and context **Both products support people, companies, and context, with different scope and plan limits.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Meeting pages inherit the surrounding Notion knowledge base. This is the core appeal: meetings can sit beside projects, docs, and databases. It does not build meeting-specific person/company timelines or combine email and calendar relationship history automatically. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** Meeting library and multi-meeting synthesis. tl;dv can query and report across accessible meetings, but it does not present a broader email/calendar/person/company relationship memory as its core model. Evidence: [tl;dv MCP](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15322415-mcp). ### Automatic sharing and workspace defaults **tl;dv has broader documented support for automatic sharing and workspace defaults.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Private by default; page permissions and personal auto-share rules. Notes start private and can be moved or shared through normal Notion permissions. Auto-sharing is configured by the individual, not enforced as a workspace-wide meeting-sharing policy. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** Granular team privacy defaults and automatic sharing. Teams can automatically share with participants, publish to a team or organization library, and apply admin privacy rules using meeting context such as title, internal or external type, and team role. Sensitive categories can remain private by rule. Evidence: [tl;dv team privacy defaults](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15033798-team-privacy-defaults). ### Automations **tl;dv has broader documented support for automations.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Agent, database, webhook, and Worker automations. Notion Agent can assign tasks, add priorities and due dates, update project status, and draft follow-up from the resulting page. Beta Workers can receive webhooks, run code, update Notion, and call external APIs. These are capable general workspace primitives, but Notion does not document a comparable automatic meeting condition/action builder that extracts fields and routes every matching meeting by default; Workers also began consuming Notion credits in August 2026. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes), [Notion AI Meeting Notes product](https://www.notion.com/product/ai-meeting-notes), [Notion Developer Platform](https://www.notion.com/releases/2026-05-13). **tl;dv:** Recurring AI reports and sales workflows. Automated multi-meeting reports, playbooks, CRM updates, and conditional Slack posts are useful, especially for customer-facing teams. Slack workflows can format decisions and action items with owners and deadlines, but team workflow scope excludes team admins and billing-group admins, and the overall system is less open-ended than a general meeting condition/action builder. Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv Slack workflows](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946410-set-up-the-slack-integration). ### Integrations **Both products support integrations, with different scope and plan limits.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Notion ecosystem, API, MCP, CLI, Workers, and connectors. Connections come through the broader Notion ecosystem, API, MCP, CLI, Workers, automations, and integration tools. That is now a substantial developer platform, though follow-through is more general-purpose than a meeting-specific CRM or issue-tracker handoff configured from the recorder. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes), [Notion MCP](https://www.notion.com/help/notion-mcp), [Notion Developer Platform](https://www.notion.com/releases/2026-05-13). **tl;dv:** CRM and collaboration integrations on paid plans. tl;dv connects to common CRMs and work tools; exact access varies by plan. The catalog is oriented around GTM and collaboration workflows. Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing). ### API, MCP, CLI, and data portability **Notion AI has broader documented support for API, MCP, CLI, and data portability.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Public API, MCP, and CLI expose meeting notes and transcripts. Notion’s 2026 API has a meeting-notes block and query endpoint for metadata, summaries, notes, action items, and full transcripts; page Markdown can include the transcript explicitly. Notion MCP can query meeting notes and fetch transcripts with the connected user’s permissions. Its first-party CLI can read and take action in the workspace and build or deploy Workers. This is a strong document-and-meeting developer surface, though it does not expose a retained recording library or meeting-specific person/company graph. Evidence: [Notion meeting-notes API](https://developers.notion.com/guides/data-apis/working-with-page-content), [Notion MCP](https://www.notion.com/help/notion-mcp), [Notion Developer Platform](https://www.notion.com/releases/2026-05-13). **tl;dv:** MCP on Pro+ and a public alpha API. MCP can search meetings and participants, with typical result sets capped at 50. A subtle access rule matters: viewing a shared meeting is not enough if its organizer is on Free—the organizer must have Pro or higher before that meeting is available through MCP or the API. The API is documented as v1alpha1 and includes recording downloads, so integration teams should expect contract evolution. Evidence: [tl;dv MCP](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15322415-mcp), [tl;dv API](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/11583137-api), [tl;dv download limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946213-how-to-download-your-recording). ### Security, privacy, and admin **Both products support security, privacy, and admin, with different scope and plan limits.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** Notion workspace controls plus Enterprise transcript deletion. Normal page permissions and workspace governance apply. Enterprise admins can configure transcript deletion and get zero-retention LLM-provider processing by default; providers may retain customer data for up to 30 days on non-Enterprise workspaces. Meeting-specific enforced sharing and capture defaults remain limited. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes), [Notion pricing](https://www.notion.com/pricing), [Notion AI security and privacy](https://www.notion.com/help/notion-ai-security-practices). **tl;dv:** Paid Team controls, with a looser domain Organization layer. Paid Teams add roles, billing administration, and forward-looking defaults; team settings do not override Team Admins. The separate domain-based Organization has no organization-wide admin defaults, any same-domain user can join it, and it cannot be deleted. Multi-team management is Business-only. Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv team privacy defaults](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15033798-team-privacy-defaults), [tl;dv organization and team model](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8975481-organization-vs-team-what-s-the-difference), [tl;dv permission levels](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/10131073-understanding-permission-levels). ### Languages **tl;dv has broader documented support for languages.** **Notion AI Meeting Notes:** 19 supported transcription languages plus three in beta; speaker labeling is English-only. Notion documents 19 supported meeting-note languages and three additional languages in beta. Speaker labeling is English-only and is most reliable for desktop virtual one-on-ones; group, browser, mobile, and in-person sessions can be unreliable. Evidence: [Notion AI Meeting Notes product](https://www.notion.com/product/ai-meeting-notes), [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes). **tl;dv:** Multilingual transcription; advanced multilingual mode is plan-gated. Language selection behavior varies by capture mode, and the multilingual Whisper option is documented for Business and Enterprise. Evidence: [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing), [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot). ## A third option to consider: Circleback Circleback turns online meetings, in-person conversations, and imported calls into one shared company memory. Record with a bot, with the botless desktop app, from an iPhone or Android phone, or on Apple Watch. Every route produces the same speaker-labeled record, detailed notes designed to stand alone, and automatically assigned action items. Sharing rules and automations carry the useful parts into the teams and tools that need them. Circleback is built for people and AI agents: the complete meeting record available to a person is also available programmatically through its API, MCP, and CLI. Circleback can also search connected apps and take action in them. It is built for people and AI agents: the same complete meeting data available to a person is available programmatically to ChatGPT, Claude, other agents, and internal tools through the API, MCP, and CLI. Free; Pro from $15/user/month annually; Business from $25/user/month annually; Enterprise $35/user/month, billed annually. ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is better: Notion AI Meeting Notes or tl;dv? Notion AI turns a call into a page inside an existing workspace. tl;dv keeps a richer recording library with clips, reels, and recurring multi-meeting reports. ### Which is less expensive, Notion AI Meeting Notes or tl;dv? Notion AI Meeting Notes: Included with Notion Business at $20/member/month annually; Enterprise is custom. tl;dv: Free; Pro from $18/user/month annually; Business from $29 annually. Compare the paid seats, included usage, recording access, and admin features you actually need. ### Can Notion AI Meeting Notes and tl;dv record without a bot? Notion AI Meeting Notes: Manual bot-free capture plus audio-file upload. tl;dv: Meeting bot or bot-free desktop recording. The useful check is whether your required capture mode keeps video, a recording, and speaker names. ### Which is better for a whole company? First ask who gets each note automatically; otherwise useful context stays with the recorder. Then compare permissions, retention, and enforced defaults. Notion AI: Private by default; page permissions and personal auto-share rules. tl;dv: Granular team privacy defaults and automatic sharing. ### Can I access and move the full meeting data? Notion AI: Public API, MCP, and CLI expose meeting notes and transcripts. tl;dv: MCP on Pro+ and a public alpha API. Check the selected plan, authentication model, transcript scope, export format, and retention window for the workflow you need. ### How was this comparison researched? We use first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes for both products. The sources are linked below. ## Methodology Circleback reviews first-party pricing pages, product pages, help docs, and release notes. Prices and capabilities move, so check the linked sources when a detail is important to your decision. Every feature dimension links to the exact first-party documents used for that claim. Ratings describe documented breadth, not an overall score or winner. This page is a neutral competitor-to-competitor comparison. There are no paid placements or affiliate rankings. ## First-party sources ### Notion AI Meeting Notes sources - [Notion AI Meeting Notes help](https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes): Eligibility, beta status, capture differences, limits, speaker labeling, sharing, retention, and local audio behavior. - [Notion AI Meeting Notes product](https://www.notion.com/product/ai-meeting-notes): Meeting-note search, generated action items, Notion Agent task assignment, project updates, and follow-up workflows. - [Notion pricing](https://www.notion.com/pricing): Business and Enterprise plan eligibility and current workspace pricing. - [Notion MCP](https://www.notion.com/help/notion-mcp): How AI tools access authorized Notion workspace content. - [Notion meeting-notes API](https://developers.notion.com/guides/data-apis/working-with-page-content): Meeting-note metadata, summaries, action items, and full transcript access through the public API. - [Notion Developer Platform](https://www.notion.com/releases/2026-05-13): First-party CLI, Meeting Notes support in MCP, Markdown API, beta Workers, webhook triggers, and workspace actions for coding agents. - [Notion AI security and privacy](https://www.notion.com/help/notion-ai-security-practices): No-training defaults, subprocessors, Enterprise zero retention, and non-Enterprise provider retention. ### tl;dv sources - [tl;dv pricing](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6082483-what-is-tl-dv-s-pricing): Official Free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise pricing and plan scope. - [tl;dv free-plan limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8919450-what-are-the-limits-of-the-free-plan): Recording retention, archive behavior, AI-note coverage, lifetime credits, meeting duration, and concurrency. - [tl;dv mobile app](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8490450-mobile-app): Recently launched early-stage mobile recording for in-person meetings. - [tl;dv speaker identification](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/6171907-speaker-identification-in-transcript): General automatic speaker identification; the article does not document mobile-mode parity. - [tl;dv bot-free recording](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/14433337-recording-without-a-bot): Desktop capture and the audio-only limitation. - [tl;dv MCP](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15322415-mcp): Plan eligibility, tools, access model, and result behavior. - [tl;dv API](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/11583137-api): Pro/Business eligibility and v1alpha1 status. - [tl;dv team privacy defaults](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/15033798-team-privacy-defaults): Admin-controlled automatic sharing, workspace-library publishing, and privacy rules for sensitive meetings. - [tl;dv download limits](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946213-how-to-download-your-recording): No bulk export plus paid-plan, ownership, and permission requirements for individual recording downloads. - [tl;dv organization and team model](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/8975481-organization-vs-team-what-s-the-difference): Automatic same-domain Organization membership, absence of Organization-wide admin defaults, and the paid Team hierarchy. - [tl;dv permission levels](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/10131073-understanding-permission-levels): Team roles, admin behavior, and the non-deletable domain Organization. - [tl;dv AI prompts](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/9235713-ai-prompts-inspiration): Cross-meeting action-item reports grouped by participant and date plus common analysis workflows. - [tl;dv Slack workflows](https://intercom.help/tldv/en/articles/5946410-set-up-the-slack-integration): Conditional automatic summaries, decisions, and owner/deadline action lists plus the team-admin scope exception.