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tl;dv vs Wudpecker

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Wudpecker publishes a starting price ($19); tl;dv does not. Both have a free tier. Only tl;dv ships a public API.

tl;dvMeeting recorder that clips moments and syncs to CRMWudpeckerMeeting bot that records Zoom, Meet and Teams calls and writes notes from your template

Side by side

Facttl;dvWudpecker
CategoryMeeting AssistantsMeeting Assistants
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at—$19 month
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, Chrome Ext, macOS, Windows, APIWeb
Companytldx Solutions GmbHWudpecker Oy
Launched2020—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

tl;dv

tl;dv earns its place when the recording has to end up somewhere else, in a CRM field or a shared clip, rather than sitting in an archive nobody reads. As a pure note-taker it is unremarkable.

Pros

  • Clip-and-share is faster in practice than pointing colleagues at a timestamp
  • CRM sync is a first-class feature rather than a Zapier afterthought
  • Free tier is a real plan, not a trial
  • Desktop apps and an extension cover the three major conferencing platforms

Cons

  • Billing is euro-only, which creates FX exposure for non-EU buyers
  • The API is v1alpha1 and explicitly unstable
  • Free plan cannot retrieve meeting content through the API at all
  • The 40% annual discount is permanent marketing, so the monthly rate is the real price

Wudpecker

Counting meetings rather than minutes makes the bill easy to reason about, and template-driven notes beat a generic summary when every call has the same shape. The catch is the ceiling: 100 recorded meetings a month on the top self-serve plan, no published API, and a hard length cap on any single recording.

Pros

  • Notes follow a template you pick, not one fixed summary shape
  • Transcription across dozens of languages with a custom vocabulary list
  • EU company and EU servers, stated plainly on the site
  • Free tier records 10 meetings a month rather than offering a short trial

Cons

  • Meeting caps rather than minute pools, so a short call costs the same as a long one
  • No documented public API
  • Notion, Slack and HubSpot integrations are paid-tier only

Which one fits

Choose tl;dv if you need

  • Sales teams that need call outcomes landing in the CRM without manual entry
  • Distributed teams sharing a 90-second clip instead of a 45-minute recording
  • Researchers and PMs tagging moments across many user interviews

Choose Wudpecker if you need

  • Sales, research or recruiting teams running the same call format repeatedly
  • Teams that need EU data residency for meeting recordings
  • Anyone who wants notes filed straight into Notion, Slack or HubSpot

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