How Pavleur compares to tl;dv

tl;dv is a widely used cloud meeting recorder. It captures your calls, transcribes them, and helps you create highlights and clips to share afterward. Teams often reach for it when the job is "record the call and cut out the moments worth revisiting," and if you have shopped for meeting-recording tools you have probably seen it.

Pavleur takes a different shape. It is a privacy-first desktop meeting copilot that captures the meeting locally, keeps the full record so nothing gets dropped, and writes an automatic report after each call. This page is an honest framing of how the two compare — not a definitive teardown of tl;dv, whose current pricing and exact features you should confirm on their own site.

What Pavleur does differently

Privacy-first local capture

Pavleur is a desktop app and captures on your own machine rather than routing every call through a third-party cloud recorder. If your team weighs where meeting audio, video, and transcripts are stored, local capture is the central distinction.

Video and on-screen screenshots

A recorder that keeps only the transcript loses the part of the meeting that happened on screen — the demo, the dashboard, the deck. Pavleur captures video and on-screen screenshots alongside the audio, so the visual context is part of the record and does not evaporate when the call ends.

No meeting-information loss

Pavleur keeps the full record, so the exact ask, the specific objection, and the shared screen are all preserved. You review the actual meeting, not a lossy summary that already discarded the detail you were looking for.

Automatic post-meeting reports that improve over time

After each call, Pavleur produces an automatic report — decisions, action items, next steps. Because it auto-improves on your recurring meetings, it gets better at your standing calls over time instead of treating each one as new.

The practical difference shows up a week later. With a recorder-and-highlights workflow, the value lives in the clips you remembered to make during or right after the call — anything you did not clip tends to fade. Pavleur inverts that: the full call and its report are kept by default, so you are not relying on catching the important moment in the moment. For recurring meetings especially — the weekly sync, the standing customer check-in — that means the follow-through does not depend on whoever happened to be paying attention that day.

Who each is for

tl;dv is a fit if you want a cloud meeting recorder to capture calls, clip highlights, and share notes, and cloud capture plus its specific integrations match how your team works.

Pavleur is a fit if you want privacy-first local capture, you run calls where screen-sharing carries the real content, and you want automatic reports that improve at your recurring meetings.

When tl;dv might fit better

The fair version: if what you want is specifically a cloud recorder with highlight-clipping and sharing workflows wired into a particular set of cloud tools, and local desktop capture is not a priority for you, tl;dv may map to that need more directly. Check tl;dv's current features and pricing on their site — we do not quote competitor prices here because they change and we cannot verify them offline.

Pavleur's edge is privacy-first local capture, visual capture of shared screens, and reports that compound over time — not a larger clip-sharing feature set.

FAQ

Is Pavleur a tl;dv alternative?

Yes. Both capture meetings and give you notes afterward. Pavleur differs by capturing locally on your desktop (privacy-first), keeping video and on-screen screenshots alongside the audio, and writing automatic post-meeting reports that improve at recurring calls.

What is the main difference between Pavleur and tl;dv?

tl;dv is a cloud meeting recorder centered on recording, highlights, and sharing. Pavleur is a privacy-first desktop copilot centered on losing nothing — including shared screens — and producing reports that get sharper over time.

Does Pavleur record video?

Yes. Pavleur captures video and on-screen screenshots, so a workflow or slide someone shares is preserved in the record rather than lost to an audio-only transcript.

Explore more

See how Pavleur fits different roles on the for-teams pages, browse ready-made agendas in meeting templates, or compare Pavleur against other meeting tools.