tl;dv vs EchoPilot
tl;dv is built around the scheduled video call, recorded by a bot or from its desktop app, and sold per seat. EchoPilot records the room and the call on the phone, computer and watch you already own, and ends at a task you approved, for one price.
- Minutes, transcript, Ask and approved actions
- Mobile, desktop and web
Why EchoPilot
- Every meeting is covered, not only the ones on a calendar. A conversation across a table, a phone call from the car and a decision in a corridor are recorded on the phone or the watch you already carry, without opening a call first or inviting anything.
- No bot joins the call, ever. There is no per-meeting choice between a bot and no bot: the recording happens on your own Mac or PC, from the menu bar or the tray, every time.
- Every point is checkable. Key points and notes carry the moment they came from, one tap plays the sentence that produced them, and a misheard line can be corrected with the original kept underneath.
- The output ends in your task app. One card per commitment, one destination already chosen, nothing created until you approve it.
- One price for one person, across phone, watch, Mac, Windows and web, with no seats to count.
What EchoPilot does not do
- EchoPilot records audio, not video. There is no recording of the screen or the faces on the call, and no clip to share from it.
- Approved actions route to task managers, calendars, notes and messaging rather than into a CRM, and there is no Zapier connector.
- A shared team workspace comes with a Company plan set up with our team, not a self-serve signup, and there is no single sign-on.
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Every capability, side by side.
| Capability | EchoPilot | tl;dv |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, web, Apple Watch | Web, a Chrome extension, a Mac and Windows desktop app, and a mobile capture app |
| Extra hardware needed | No | No |
| How it captures | Your phone in the room, your own Mac or PC for a call, plus Apple Watch | A bot that joins the call, or audio-only capture from the desktop app, chosen per meeting |
| A bot in the participant list | Never | Optional: bot with video, or bot-free audio from the desktop app |
| In-person conversations | Yes: the same pipeline as a call, on a phone or a watch | Through its mobile capture app; on a laptop, by starting a call and inviting the bot |
| Longest single recording | 4 hours on Pro, 1 hour on Free | Not stated |
| Speaker labels in the transcript | Per-meeting labels you rename or merge; otherwise honestly unattributed | Automatic speaker recognition |
| Minutes: title, summary, notes, key points, action items | Yes, with a content-based title and timestamps on every point | AI notes, action items and follow-up email drafts |
| Correct a misheard line, then rebuild | Yes, with the original kept as evidence | Not stated |
| Translate the minutes | 32 languages on request; 4 verified end to end and labelled | Transcripts and summaries in 30+ languages |
| Ask questions across your recordings | Yes: read-only, with cited timestamps | Not stated |
| Approved actions pushed into your task apps | Todoist, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, Apple Reminders, Notion, Slack, calendars, Drive, OneDrive, Teams, Mail | Slack, Notion, HubSpot, and thousands of tools through Zapier |
| Nothing leaves the app until you approve it | Yes: one card per commitment, one destination, your confirmation | Not stated |
| Price | Free includes 300 meeting minutes in the first 30 days, then 120 every 30 days. Pro is $11.99/month or $89/year. One person, not per seat. | Free. Pro €29 per seat a month, or €18 billed annually. Business €39, or €29 billed annually, as its pricing page showed in euros |
tl;dv details reflect tl;dv's published information as of 17 September 2026, and list prices before promotions, excluding tax.
tl;dv and EchoPilot, in depth.
tl;dv is built around the scheduled video call: a bot joins it, or the desktop app records the audio, and the notes arrive afterwards. EchoPilot is built around the meeting wherever it happens, which for most people is somewhere a calendar invite never reached.
The meeting that never had a link
tl;dv’s own guide to recording in the office says to set up a laptop, start a call on your chosen platform and invite the bot. EchoPilot does not need the call. Put the phone on the table and record: four hours in one capture, in the background, with the screen locked, written to disk in segments as it goes so a crash costs seconds rather than the meeting. An Apple Watch catches the conversation you would not have got your phone out for. The meeting recorder page covers what happens if the call, the app or the phone is interrupted.
No bot in the call, ever
tl;dv lets you choose, meeting by meeting, between a bot in the call with video and a bot-free audio recording from its desktop app. EchoPilot never sends a bot. The Mac and Windows apps record your microphone and the audio your computer is playing, from the menu bar or the tray. There is no choice to make before each call.
What comes back, and whether you can check it
Both products produce a transcript, a summary and action items. EchoPilot’s output is built to be checked and then acted on.
Meeting Minutes come back as a titled document with a summary, chaptered timestamped notes, key points anchored to the moment they came from, action items and the full transcript. Tap any point and the recording plays from the sentence that produced it. Search the transcript with match stepping, rename or merge speaker turns on supported Pro meetings, and correct a misheard line while the original audio and text stay underneath as evidence.
Ask answers questions across one meeting, a series, or everything you have recorded, and cites the moment it used so a wrong answer is one tap from being caught. It is read-only: it never creates, edits or sends anything.
The follow-up is the product
An action item inside a summary is still work. Someone has to read it, decide where it belongs, and put it there.
EchoPilot drafts a card for each commitment with the destination already chosen, and then stops. Todoist, Google Tasks, Microsoft To Do, Apple Reminders, Notion, Slack, Google and Outlook calendars, Drive, OneDrive, Teams, Mail. You read the card, correct the destination if the guess was wrong, and confirm. Nothing is created before that, and there is no setting to turn the review off. tl;dv’s published pages describe pushing to Slack, Notion, a CRM and Zapier without describing a per-item approval step, so the table says “Not stated” rather than asserting an absence. The action cards page shows one for every destination.
One person, one price
tl;dv is sold per seat: on the day we checked, its pricing page showed Pro at €29 a seat a month, or €18 billed annually, and Business at €39, or €29 billed annually. EchoPilot is $11.99 a month, or $89 a year, for one person, and that single subscription covers the iPhone app, Android, the Apple Watch companion, the Mac and Windows capture apps and the web app.
If you are buying for yourself, you are not buying a seat.
Questions worth answering.
Does a bot join my meeting?
How long can a meeting recording be?
Does EchoPilot create tasks automatically?
Record one meeting and see the difference.
Record the next conversation you would otherwise have taken notes in. You get the Meeting Minutes, a searchable transcript, answers you can ask for, and every commitment drafted as a card waiting for your approval.
Questions? support@echopilotapp.com