tl;dv vs Avoma

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.

Evidencetl;dv bot-free recordingtl;dv mobile app

Avoma

Web and desktop with a mobile app

The platform supports virtual-meeting workflows well. Mobile recording exists, but the company documents caveats for using it as a full in-person substitute.

EvidenceAvoma recordingAvoma in-person meeting support

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.

Evidencetl;dv mobile apptl;dv speaker identification

Avoma

Possible, with explicit speaker and quality caveats

Avoma says it does not fully support in-person meetings in the same way as virtual calls. Mobile and conference-device workarounds can record audio, but reliable room speaker identification is a limitation.

EvidenceAvoma in-person meeting support

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.

Evidencetl;dv bot-free recordingtl;dv free-plan limits

Avoma

Audio/video playback, snippets, playlists, and coaching review

Virtual customer conversations get rich playback and revenue-review workflows. Hosts, participants, admins, and host managers can download video, audio, and VTT or TXT transcripts. Retention and access depend on workspace configuration and plan.

EvidenceAvoma recordingAvoma meeting downloads

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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.

Evidencetl;dv pricingtl;dv free-plan limitstl;dv AI prompts

Avoma

AI notes, search, and assigned action-item dashboards

Notes and search are strong. Avoma detects action items with owners and deadlines, tracks them in default task dashboards, suggests priority from meeting and deal context, and flags overdue or at-risk work. Additional topic, scorecard, and coaching intelligence is available through the Conversation Intelligence add-on.

EvidenceAvoma pricingAvoma action-item tracking

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.

Evidencetl;dv MCP

Avoma

Customer-account and deal context

Avoma organizes history around meetings, accounts, and revenue workflows. It is less focused on a general person/company memory incorporating email, calendar, and internal context for every department.

EvidenceAvoma pricing

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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.

Evidencetl;dv team privacy defaults

Avoma

Meeting-type visibility defaults, teams, and free viewers

Internal meetings default to private and external meetings to organization visibility, with Primary Team and Public options available. Organization admins can instead choose internal/external defaults for participants, specific teams, or the organization and lock the rule against user changes. Free viewer seats, snippets, and playlists make broad consumption practical.

EvidenceAvoma meeting privacyAvoma organization privacy policies

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.

Evidencetl;dv pricingtl;dv Slack workflows

Avoma

Conditional CRM, task, privacy, scheduling, and routing workflows

Avoma has a real organization-level trigger/condition/action system. It can react to calendar, transcript, or note events; filter by title, team, participant domain, keyword, or meeting type; then set privacy or purpose, detect outcomes, update CRM data, and create tasks from action items. Manual rules start on the Startup plan and AI-powered rules require Organization or higher; coaching, forecasting, and lead routing remain separate modules.

EvidenceAvoma pricingAvoma automations

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.

Evidencetl;dv pricing

Avoma

Deep CRM and sales-stack integrations

Avoma emphasizes CRM, conferencing, calendar, dialer, and sales tools. Action items can sync into HubSpot, Salesforce, ClickUp, Asana, and other destinations, with Zapier extending the catalog. It remains oriented around GTM rather than being a neutral engineering-workflow platform.

EvidenceAvoma pricingAvoma action-item tracking

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.

Evidencetl;dv MCPtl;dv APItl;dv download limits

Avoma

API for recordings, transcripts, notes, and coaching data

Avoma documents API access to recordings, transcripts, summaries, notes, and coaching insights on selected plans. Keys are admin-created, requests are user- or organization-scoped, and the documented rate limit is 60 requests per minute.

EvidenceAvoma API documentationAvoma meeting downloads

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.

Evidencetl;dv pricingtl;dv team privacy defaultstl;dv organization and team modeltl;dv permission levels

Avoma

Strong enterprise controls on upper tiers

Admin, configurable retention, SSO, and compliance features are available as plans increase. Avoma says customer meeting data is never used to train AI models, and its DPA commits to deletion or return within 30 days after termination, subject to backups and legal obligations. The same-base-tier requirement for recorder users reduces mix-and-match flexibility.

EvidenceAvoma pricingAvoma seat minimumsAvoma AI data handlingAvoma data processing addendum

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.

Evidencetl;dv pricingtl;dv bot-free recording

Avoma

More than 60 documented languages and dialects

Avoma’s help page says it supports more than 60 languages and dialects, while its page title advertises 75+. Buyers should verify the exact language and whether the coaching or revenue-intelligence feature they need supports it.

EvidenceAvoma supported languages