Fellow vs tl;dv

Fellow is a meeting management platform made by a Canadian company headquartered in Ottawa. It covers the whole meeting cycle: collaborative agendas prepared before the call, notes and decisions captured during it, and action items and recaps followed up afterwards, with a strong focus on recurring one-on-ones and team meetings run by managers.

Agendas live in a shared notes document attached to each calendar event, with a template library for one-on-ones, stand-ups, retrospectives and board meetings. Fellow's AI notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls to record, transcribe and summarize, and privacy controls let organizations decide which meetings are recorded and who can see transcripts. Action items sync to tools such as Asana, Jira and Slack. There is a free plan with limits, then per-user Team and Business plans that unlock AI notes, longer history and admin controls, plus an Enterprise tier.

Fellow fits managers and organizations that want to improve meeting habits, not just capture transcripts. Solo users who only need a recorder get more for less from Otter, Fireflies or tl;dv, and teams already standardized on Notion or Confluence may find the agenda features overlap with what they have. Compared with Fathom or Fireflies, Fellow is stronger on pre-meeting preparation, one-on-one workflows and governance, while the pure notetakers are cheaper for transcription alone. Its value depends on the whole team adopting it, so rollout matters.

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.