Avoma vs tl;dv

Avoma is a US-based AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes and summarizes calls, then extends into scheduling, lead routing, conversation intelligence and revenue intelligence. It is aimed at sales, customer success and recruiting teams that want call notes, CRM updates and coaching insights in one tool instead of stitching together a notetaker, a scheduler and a separate coaching platform.

The core plan records Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings, transcribes in more than 70 languages, writes AI notes from templates, drafts follow-up emails and pushes notes and fields into Salesforce, HubSpot or Pipedrive. Ask Avoma answers questions about a meeting or, on Enterprise, across all meetings. Paid seats are only needed for people who record; viewers are free. Conversation Intelligence (call scoring, talk patterns, topic trackers), Revenue Intelligence (deal and churn risk, MEDDIC or BANT scoring, forecasting) and Lead Router are sold as per-seat add-ons.

Avoma fits SMB and mid-market revenue teams that want Gong-style insight at a fraction of the price. Gong is deeper for large sales organizations, Fireflies and Otter are cheaper if you only need transcripts, and tl;dv is lighter and friendlier for product and research calls.

Buying tip: annual billing saves up to a third on the base plan, but add-ons quickly double the per-seat cost, so trial the Organization plan for 14 days with all add-ons enabled and keep only the ones reps actually use. Avoma also offers an MCP server and API that expose meeting transcripts and notes to AI assistants.

tl;dv is an AI meeting recorder from a European company that records and transcribes calls in Google Meet, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. The name stands for too long; didn't view, and the product's goal is that people who missed a meeting can get what they need in minutes from notes, highlights and clips instead of a full recording.

A bot joins scheduled meetings, records them and creates a transcript in more than 30 languages. AI notes summarize decisions and action items using templates, and multi-meeting reports answer questions or produce recurring summaries across many calls, for example a weekly digest of all customer calls. Clips and timestamps make it easy to share key moments, and integrations push notes to Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce and other tools. Sales coaching features analyze talk ratios and objections. The free plan offers unlimited recordings with limited AI, Pro adds unlimited AI notes per user, and Business adds CRM workflows, coaching and admin controls.

tl;dv fits multilingual teams and sales and customer success groups that want recordings, AI notes and CRM updates in one tool, with EU data handling. Some participants dislike a bot joining calls, accuracy varies by language and audio quality, and the interface can feel busy. Fireflies.ai and Otter.ai are direct alternatives, Fathom has a generous free plan, Gong is the enterprise choice for revenue intelligence, and Granola records without a bot.