Donna vs tl;dv
Donna or tl;dv? Pick tl;dv if you want zero-ops cloud convenience with EU hosting and video clips. Pick Donna if you want analysis beyond summaries — six lenses, verbatim receipts, tensions, position shifts, and the room read — from a Flocci product that treats sharing as a decision.
tl;dv is what a cloud notetaker looks like when it takes European privacy law seriously, and it deserves credit for that. Donna answers a different question: not which region the recap lives in, but whether the report is actually useful — and whether you decide who sees it.
Side by side, structurally
| Axis | tl;dv | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| How it attends meetings | Bot joins your calls | Joins Google Meet as a visible participant — on demand, or auto-joined from your calendar |
| Meeting video capture | Yes — recordings with clips and timestamps | Yes — screen video and audio, compressed after the call |
| Transcription | Vendor-managed, 30+ languages | Flocci Speech Recognition, with real speaker names from Meet captions |
| What you get after the call | Transcript, AI notes, clips, multi-meeting AI reports | Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders |
| Pricing | Free tier; per-seat pro and business plans | Credits by usage — no per-seat fee |
Where tl;dv genuinely wins
- EU hosting and a serious GDPR posture — the strongest privacy story among the cloud incumbents.
- Wide language coverage for international teams.
- Clip-making and multi-meeting reports are genuinely useful for async video culture.
Where Donna wins
- tl;dv’s privacy story is a region. Donna’s is access: Google sign-in, a private archive, sharing that is always an explicit act, and a Flocci operator you can actually reach.
- tl;dv still holds the corpus as a notetaker vendor. Donna’s dashboard is yours to use; public links exist only when you mint them, and they are revocable.
- tl;dv’s AI reports summarize across meetings; Donna’s report interrogates a single meeting harder than any summary: six lenses, receipts, tensions, the unsaid, the room read.
The read, since summaries are not the product
tl;dv: Transcript, AI notes, clips, multi-meeting AI reports. Donna: Meeting intelligence through one of six lenses: decisions with tradeoffs, exact-quote receipts, tensions, what nobody said, position shifts, the room read, and orders. For boards, client work, hiring, negotiations, and one-on-ones, that line is usually the whole decision.
What each one charges
| tl;dv | Donna | |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Free forever plan with unlimited recordings | One-time credit grant plus a monthly free allowance |
| Paid | Paid tiers published on their pricing page | Credit-metered usage — meetings attended, minutes transcribed, reports delivered. No seat licence. |
tl;dv’s figures were read from their own pricing page on 29 July 2026; check it before you buy, because plans change without notice. Donna’s current credit costs live on your billing page at account.flocci.in.
Questions, answered straight
Is Donna more private than tl;dv?
Different guarantees. tl;dv stores meetings on its EU cloud as a GDPR data processor. Donna stores them in your private Flocci workspace: Google sign-in, noindexed dashboard, sharing only when you send a link, invite a collaborator, or export a file. Flocci is the operator; we do not pretend there is no operator.
Does Donna support 30+ languages like tl;dv?
Donna transcribes with Flocci Speech Recognition, which is multilingual, so non-English meetings transcribe well. The analysis report is written in English today.
Who should pick tl;dv over Donna?
Teams that want zero-ops cloud convenience with an EU compliance story, video clips for async sharing, and per-seat billing they’ve budgeted for. Teams that want a deeper report — and a private Flocci archive they actually control access to — should run Donna.
Put Donna in your next meeting
Access is open — sign in with your Google account and she’s in your dashboard in minutes. Rolling out to a whole team, or want a hand with the server setup? We’re glad to help.