Move your team from tl;dv to Fireflies.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Fireflies — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in tl;dv is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both products offer an AI chat interface for asking natural-language questions about meeting content. Fireflies calls this AskFred (per-meeting, accessed from the Notebook); tl;dv calls it 'Ask tl;dv' and supports both single-meeting and cross-library queries. To move from Fireflies to tl;dv: establish your prompt library in tl;dv and configure Recurring AI Reports on the desired schedule; note that tl;dv's cross-meeting query is the more powerful equivalent to AskFred's single-meeting scope. To move from tl;dv to Fireflies: use AskFred's saved AI Skills (reusable prompt templates) to replicate recurring workflows; for cross-meeting analytics use the Fireflies Analytics Dashboard (Business/Enterprise) or run AskFred individually per meeting.
- Warning: Fireflies AskFred runs on a one-time AI-credit pool (Free 20 credits, Pro 20, Business 30, Enterprise 50 — not monthly refills); each AskFred query on Free costs 1 credit. tl;dv Free caps 'Ask tl;dv' at 10 lifetime prompts; Pro removes the cap.
- Warning: tl;dv's 'Ask tl;dv' can query across all meetings in the library simultaneously; Fireflies AskFred is scoped to one meeting at a time (cross-meeting analytics require the Business-tier Analytics Dashboard separately).
- Warning: Fireflies AI credits are consumed per query and are not refilled monthly — teams running high query volumes should evaluate credit top-up costs before switching.
Both products deliver automatic, speaker-labeled transcripts. Fireflies supports 100+ languages; tl;dv documents 30+ languages including English variants, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Hebrew. To move from Fireflies to tl;dv: download existing transcripts from the Fireflies Notebook (TXT or via API) for archival before cancelling; verify your team's spoken languages are in tl;dv's supported list. To move from tl;dv to Fireflies: export transcripts from the tl;dv library; reconnect the Fireflies bot to your calendar. If multilingual accuracy matters, run a side-by-side test on a sample call before completing the switch.
- Warning: Fireflies supports 100+ languages; tl;dv supports 30+. Teams using less-common languages should verify coverage in tl;dv before migrating.
- Warning: Fireflies Free plan caps transcript storage at 800 minutes/seat; tl;dv Free has unlimited transcription but a 3-month recording retention window, after which recordings (but not transcripts) may be lost.
- Warning: tl;dv claims a 96% accuracy rate but does not publicly publish per-language accuracy breakdowns; Fireflies similarly does not publish per-language accuracy data.
Both products push meeting notes, transcripts, and action items to CRMs and collaboration tools. To move from Fireflies to tl;dv: audit the Fireflies integrations you actively use (CRM, Slack, Notion, project tools) and verify they appear in tl;dv's integrations list or are reachable via Zapier; reconnect each integration in tl;dv Settings; if you relied on Fireflies' HubSpot or Salesforce native sync, check whether tl;dv's native connector (HubSpot/Zoho) or Zapier credit path covers your CRM. To move from tl;dv to Fireflies: replicate each connected integration in Fireflies (50+ native integrations available); Fireflies offers broader native CRM coverage including Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho, Pipedrive, Copper, Freshsales, Affinity, and others.
- Warning: Fireflies requires Business plan or higher for CRM sync and video recording; Free and Pro users get integrations without CRM write-back. tl;dv's deep CRM field mapping is also a Business-plan feature, but basic Zapier credits (20) are included on the Free plan.
- Warning: Fireflies has 50+ native CRM and tool integrations including Salesforce natively; tl;dv lists Salesforce only via Zapier (not a listed native connector) — sales teams reliant on native Salesforce sync should test before switching to tl;dv.
- Warning: tl;dv does not natively support Webex, Dialpad, GoToMeeting, or Jitsi for meeting capture; if those dialers/platforms are also CRM-sync sources in your current Fireflies setup, that workflow has no tl;dv equivalent.
Both products deploy a bot participant that joins scheduled calls via calendar integration and returns a transcript and recording after the meeting. To move from Fireflies to tl;dv: connect tl;dv to the same Google or Outlook calendar so its bot auto-joins future meetings; export past Fireflies transcripts from the Notebook (CSV/TXT) before cancelling to preserve history. To move from tl;dv to Fireflies: authorize Fireflies calendar integration and enable Auto-join in Settings; for bot-free capture, Fireflies also offers a Chrome extension (Google Meet) and a desktop app as alternatives. Both bots appear as named participants in meeting rooms, so inform attendees of the swap to avoid confusion if consent notices reference the old product name.
- Warning: tl;dv's Free plan records unlimited meetings but caps retention at 3 months and each recording at 3 hours; Fireflies Free caps storage at 800 minutes/seat but has no stated per-recording length limit.
- Warning: Fireflies bot appears as 'Fireflies.ai Notetaker {inviter name}' in participant lists; tl;dv's bot name is different — update any internal consent language or recording-disclosure scripts.
- Warning: tl;dv supports Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams; Fireflies additionally supports Webex, Dialpad, GoToMeeting, Lifesize, and Jitsi — teams on those extra platforms cannot use tl;dv's bot directly.
Both products let users extract and share short video/audio clips from meeting recordings. In Fireflies these are called Soundbites; in tl;dv they are called Highlights and Clips. To move from Fireflies to tl;dv: recreate any saved Soundbite Playlists as tl;dv highlight collections; download existing Soundbites (MP3/MP4) from Fireflies before cancelling since they won't transfer. To move from tl;dv to Fireflies: download clips from tl;dv's library; in Fireflies, use Manual Soundbite creation (select transcript sections) or enable Magic Soundbites for AI-auto-generated clips. Both tools support sharing clips with external stakeholders via a link.
- Warning: tl;dv Free caps shareable clips at 4 (non-downloadable); Fireflies does not explicitly cap Soundbite count on Free but charges 1 AI credit per Magic Soundbite on Free (0 credits on paid plans).
- Warning: Fireflies exports clips as MP3 or MP4 and supports organizing them into Playlists; tl;dv clips are shareable as links but the Free plan blocks downloads — downloading requires a paid plan.
- Warning: Fireflies' Keyword Soundbites (AI-generated clips around specific keywords) have no direct equivalent in tl;dv's highlights model, which is timestamp/segment based.
Both tools auto-generate structured summaries (action items, key topics, chapters) immediately after each meeting. Both support BANT, MEDDIC, and custom note templates. To migrate from Fireflies to tl;dv: configure your preferred template in tl;dv Settings (AI tags / custom note formats) before the first recorded meeting; action items are automatically extracted so no manual re-setup is needed. To migrate from tl;dv to Fireflies: select a matching template from Fireflies' 18+ built-in options (Team Meeting, Sales Call, Interview, BANT, etc.) or create a custom summary structure; existing summaries can be exported from tl;dv's meeting library before cancelling. Both tools also generate follow-up email drafts from summary content.
- Warning: tl;dv's Free plan caps automatic AI notes at a lifetime limit of 10 full meetings (after that, only the first 10 minutes per meeting are summarized); Fireflies generates summaries on all plans with no meeting count cap, but expanding summary sections requires Pro or higher.
- Warning: Fireflies charges AI credits for custom summary sections beyond the default (1 credit per extra section per regeneration); tl;dv's summary customization model does not use a credit system.
- Warning: Fireflies allows only the meeting host/owner to regenerate summaries after editing; tl;dv's permission model for re-triggering summaries is not documented with the same restriction.