Video is the feature and the problem
If your job is sharing customer moments with a product team, tl;dv's video library is the reason to use it, and Nod is not a replacement for that. If your job is remembering what was agreed, the video is overhead you now have to govern.
- A bot in the participant list on every call it covers, including external and client meetings.
- Stored video and audio in the cloud (EU/US depending on plan — verify), with retention, access, and deletion to manage.
- Only meetings a bot can join — no phone calls, no in-person conversations, nothing ad-hoc.
- Faces and screens, not just words. A shared screen with someone else's data in it is now a recorded asset.
What Nod keeps and what it throws away
Nod captures your Mac's audio with nothing joining the call, turns it into a structured recap, and throws the audio away. There is no video at any point — Nod never touches your camera or your screen. Capture is local on your Mac; transcription isn't. Each audio segment is sent through a European proxy to a hosted transcription service and discarded the instant the text returns, under Zero Data Retention and with no model training. No audio is stored at either end. Only the transcript and summary are saved, encrypted at rest in the EU (AWS eu-west-1). See the security page.
Where tl;dv still wins
Clippable video moments, a shareable library, sending the bot to a call you're not on, and running anywhere rather than macOS only. If any of those is load-bearing for your team, tl;dv is the right tool and Nod isn't pretending to replace it.
The rest of the field is covered in our tl;dv alternatives roundup.
Try the no-recording version
14 days free, no card, then $12–$20 a month billed annually (pricing). Download Nod for Mac.
Related: meeting notes without storing audio and private by default.
Frequently asked questions
What's the best tl;dv alternative without a bot?
On macOS, Nod: it captures your Mac's audio, never joins the call, records no video, and stores no audio — only the transcript and summary, encrypted in the EU. It is not a replacement for tl;dv's video clip library, which is a deliberate omission rather than a gap.Does Nod record video?
No. Nod never accesses your camera or your screen. It reads audio only, and even that is discarded from memory about five seconds after it is transcribed.Where does tl;dv store recordings?
tl;dv retains cloud video recordings, with the region depending on plan and configuration — verify current specifics on their own pages. Nod stores no recording of any kind.