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Intriq vs tl;dv
If you need your Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams calls recorded, transcribed, and pushed into a CRM for a sales team to review, use tl;dv. It is good at that and Intriq does none of it. Keep reading only if the thing you actually keep losing is what you knew about a person.
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Verdict
Choose tl;dv if the meeting is the asset: recorded calls, transcripts, coaching, and conversation intelligence shared across a revenue team. Choose Intriq if the person is the asset, and what you need is a private memory that spans every conversation including the ones that never happened on a call.
See it in action
What relationship memory feels like in Intriq
Speak a note out loud or type it. Intriq transcribes the audio, quietly pulls out the people and details, organizes everything around the person, and hands it back to you right before the next conversation, privately, on your iPhone.
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- Speak or type, in plain English Dictate a note out loud and Intriq transcribes it, or type it. No fields, tags, or forms.
- Grounded recall Briefings are built only from notes you saved; nothing is invented.
- Private by default Your relationship memory stays yours, on the device in your pocket.
Side by side
Intriq vs tl;dv at a glance
| Criterion | Recommended Intriq |  tl;dv |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Private relationship memory app | AI meeting recorder with sales conversation intelligence |
| Primary platform | iPhone-first native app, plus a web app in any browser | Browser extension, desktop app, and meeting bot for Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams |
| Core workflow | Capture a note, organize it around the person, brief yourself before the next conversation | Record the call, transcribe it, summarize it, route it to the CRM and the team |
| Who it is for | One person, for their own memory | Revenue teams; priced per seat with team analytics and coaching |
| Capture method | Speak or type a plain-English note after the conversation; no audio of anyone else is recorded | Records the call itself, either with a visible bot or from the desktop app |
| AI | Grounded recall from your saved notes only; refuses to invent | Summaries, custom prompts, coaching scorecards, and conversation analytics |
| Privacy posture | Local-first with encrypted on-device snapshots; single-user; captures no audio | Call recordings and transcripts stored in the cloud and shared with your team |
| Pricing | Free plan; optional paid plans; not per seat | Free plan with limited AI summaries; Pro around $18 per user a month; Business around $59 per user a month |
| Best fit | Remembering people across scattered conversations | Sales teams reviewing and coaching recorded calls |
Grounded recall
Ask in plain English. Every answer is grounded in your notes.
Intriq answers questions about the people you know using only the notes you saved, and it shows you the exact note behind every match. No enrichment, no scraping, no invented details.
Who did I meet at the conference that I should follow up with?
- Note · Jun
Ruth Adeyemi COO, Marchant
“…asked me to send the security overview in September…”
- Note · Jun
Stefan Lindqvist Angel investor
“…invests only after seeing two quarters of retention…”
- Note · Jun
Aisha Rahman Head of Ops
“…introduced me to her old colleague at Vantage…”
Every answer cites the exact note it came from: no enrichment, no scraping.
Questions Intriq can actually answer
Gather people by a shared interest
- Who likes golf?
- Anyone into tennis?
- Who plays golf and has pets?
Find the right introduction
- Who can introduce me to someone at Mastercard?
- Who do I know from Microsoft?
Reconnect before it goes cold
- Who haven't I talked to in 3 months?
- Which dormant relationships could become pipeline?
Filter with real logic
- Who works in healthcare or AI?
- Who studied at UCLA?
What tl;dv does well
tl;dv is a serious meeting-recording product with real depth for revenue teams. It records Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, transcribes in a long list of languages, produces summaries against your own prompts, and pushes the result into HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive so nobody has to type up the call.
The layer above that is where it earns its price: coaching scorecards, talk-time and conversation analytics, and the ability for a manager to review calls they were not on. If you run a sales team and want to know how your reps actually handle objections, that is the product, and Intriq is not competing for the job.
What Intriq does differently
Intriq is built for one person and records nothing. There is no bot, no desktop capture, no audio of the other side of the conversation anywhere. You have the conversation, and afterwards you capture the line worth keeping, which is filed to the person rather than to the calendar entry.
The practical consequence is coverage. tl;dv knows about the conversations that happened on a call with software running. Most of what you learn about people does not happen there: it happens at the dinner, in the corridor, on the walk to the station, at the conference badge table. Intriq is built for the minute afterwards.
The team asset and the personal one
tl;dv's output belongs to the company. That is a design choice, not a criticism: recordings are shared, coachable, and CRM-bound, because a revenue team needs one version of what happened. It is priced per seat for the same reason.
Intriq's output belongs to you. It is single-user by design, and it travels with you when you change jobs, which a CRM record does not. That also makes it the right home for the candid observation you would never put in a shared call recording: who really makes the decision, what they are worried about, why the timeline slipped. Those notes are useful precisely because they are private.
Scenarios
Which tool fits which job
Sales manager coaching a team of reps
Needs to review calls they did not attend, score how objections were handled, and make sure the CRM reflects what was actually said on each opportunity.
Best fit: tl;dv . This is tl;dv's core job: recorded calls, coaching scorecards, and CRM sync across a team. Intriq is single-user and records nothing.
Solo consultant with a referral-driven practice
Wins work through a network of past clients and introducers met at dinners, conferences, and the occasional call. Has no team, no CRM, and no interest in paying per seat.
Best fit: Intriq . The value is a private per-person memory across mostly off-call conversations, which a team call-recorder neither captures nor is priced for.
Founder running discovery calls
Wants an accurate record of thirty customer calls to pull quotes and patterns from, and to share the raw material with two colleagues.
Best fit: tl;dv . Verbatim transcripts of scheduled calls, shared with colleagues, is exactly what a recorder is for.
Account lead who already runs tl;dv
Has every client call recorded and summarized, but still walks into the quarterly review unable to remember that the client's counterpart changed roles and their daughter just started university.
Best fit: Either tl;dv or Intriq, depending on emphasis . Keep tl;dv for the call record the team needs; add Intriq for the private per-person memory that spans the calls and the conversations around them.
At a glance
Strengths and tradeoffs
Intriq
Strengths
- Single-user and private by design; the memory is yours and moves with you
- Records no audio, so there is no consent question in the room
- Person-centered memory that compounds across every conversation
- Covers in-person and informal conversations that never touch a call
- Local-first, encrypted on-device
- Not priced per seat
Tradeoffs
- No call recording, transcription, or meeting summaries
- No CRM integrations
- No team sharing, coaching, or conversation analytics
- You capture the takeaway yourself
tl;dv
Strengths
- Records and transcribes Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams reliably
- Bot-free desktop capture as well as a meeting bot
- Deep CRM integrations and custom AI summary prompts
- Coaching scorecards and conversation analytics for teams
- Generous free tier for recording and transcription
Tradeoffs
- Meeting-centered; no durable memory of a person across conversations
- Only sees conversations that happen on a supported call
- Recordings and transcripts live in the cloud and are shared with the team
- Per-seat pricing aimed at revenue teams, not individuals
- Recording still requires managing consent with the other participants
When tl;dv is the better fit
tl;dv is the better choice when the recording is the deliverable and other people need it: sales teams coaching reps, founders pulling quotes from discovery calls, anyone who needs the call in the CRM without typing it up. It is also the better choice if you genuinely need verbatim accuracy, which Intriq does not offer at all.
When Intriq is the better fit
Intriq is the better choice when you are one person trying to remember people rather than archive meetings, when most of what matters is said away from a scheduled call, and when the notes you want to keep are ones you would never put in a shared recording. Nothing is recorded, nothing is per seat, and the memory stays yours.
Common questions
Intriq vs tl;dv FAQ
Is Intriq a tl;dv alternative?
Only if what you want is to remember people. If you want Zoom, Meet, or Teams calls recorded, transcribed, and shared with a team, Intriq is not an alternative and will disappoint you. It records nothing and has no CRM integrations.
Does Intriq record my meetings like tl;dv does?
No. There is no bot and no desktop capture. You have the conversation normally and afterwards capture the one line worth keeping, which is filed to the person. No audio of anyone else exists at any point.
tl;dv already has a bot-free desktop app, so why Intriq?
Bot-free is about visibility, not recording. tl;dv's desktop app still captures the call audio; it just does not announce itself with an avatar in the participant list. Intriq does not record at all, which is a different thing, and it covers the in-person conversations that no call recorder sees.
Can I use tl;dv and Intriq together?
Yes, and for a lot of people that is the right setup. tl;dv holds the call record your team needs. Intriq holds the private, per-person memory that spans those calls plus every dinner, corridor conversation, and introduction that never appeared on a calendar.
Is Intriq cheaper than tl;dv?
They are priced for different things. tl;dv is per seat, around $18 per user a month on Pro and around $59 on Business, because it is sold to teams. Intriq has a free plan and optional paid plans for one person, and there are no seats to buy.
Which is more private?
Intriq, for notes about people. tl;dv stores call recordings and transcripts in the cloud and shares them with your team, which is exactly what a team tool should do. Intriq is single-user, local-first with encrypted on-device snapshots, and captures no audio, which is the posture you want for candid observations.
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Free to download with a free plan, iPhone only, ready in under a minute. Capture notes in plain English, by typing or by voice, and recall the context before the next conversation.