tl dv alternative for recruiters
The tl dv alternative for recruiters whose real interviews happen on the phone
Screening calls run back to back, and the write-up always waits until the end of the day. Superscribe records each call on your own number and has the candidate notes ready before the next one starts.
Superscribe
Stop rebuilding calls from memory
Use Superscribe to capture the words, context, next steps, and time while the work is still happening.
Most people searching for a tl dv alternative for recruiters are not unhappy with the recording. They are unhappy with what is still left to do after it. The call is captured, the transcript is there, the summary is there, and you still have to sit down at 6pm and turn eight conversations into eight sets of candidate notes, eight scorecards, and eight follow-up messages that do not sound like they were written from memory. Because they were.
That gap matters more for recruiters than for almost anyone else, because your day is not shaped like a meeting calendar. It is shaped like a phone. A candidate calls back on their lunch break. A hiring manager rings between interviews to say the brief has changed. A passive candidate picks up once and never again. None of that arrives as a meeting link, so none of it lands in a tool that waits for one.
Where the recording ends and your reconstruction begins
A meeting recorder gives you an artefact. What the hiring manager actually wants is a judgement: is this person worth an onsite, what are they earning now, what is their notice period, what made them nervous when you described the team. That judgement lives in your head for about two hours before the next three calls overwrite it.
So the work splits into two jobs. The call, which you are good at, and the reconstruction, which nobody is good at. Reconstruction is where salary expectations get rounded, where a candidate’s exact concern turns into a vague note, and where the follow-up goes out a day late and slightly generic.
Try it on the real workflow
Turn your next screening call into finished candidate notes
Use Superscribe on a real screening call. The call becomes a title, a summary, suggested actions, and a follow-up you can send without rewriting it.
The tl dv alternative for recruiters starts at the phone, not the meeting link
Superscribe Phone is a free iPhone app. You keep your own number and you answer calls the way you already do. There is no bot joining anything, no link to send, and nothing for the candidate to install or accept. Every call is transcribed, in many languages with automatic detection, and comes back with a title, a summary, and suggested actions. Call this person back. Put the agreed second-round time in the calendar. Save this unknown number to contacts. Turn the list you dictated between calls into a checklist. Each one is a single tap, and nothing runs on its own. The time-sensitive ones show up on the lock screen with buttons, which is where they are useful when you are walking between rooms.
Interviews in a room work too. Tap Start meeting, put the phone on the table, and the recording state stays visible so everyone can see it. Remote panellists can be dialled in by phone onto the same transcript. Speakers are separated and named when they introduce themselves, so a three-person debrief does not come back as one wall of text. The minutes are ready when the meeting ends.
| What your day contains | Meeting-link recorder | Superscribe Phone |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled video interview | Its home ground | Not what it is for |
| Screening call to a mobile | Built around the meeting link | Your own number, no bot |
| Candidate who calls you back | Usually missed | Captured like any other call |
| In-room debrief with the hiring manager | Needs a laptop and a link | Phone on the table |
| Remote panellist with no video | Depends on the link | Dialled in by phone, same transcript |
| What you get back | Recording, transcript, recap | Summary plus one-tap actions |
| Where it lands | Wherever you paste it | Filed to the project, pushed to Pipedrive, or pulled through the API and MCP |
Choose the one that matches your week
Choose tl dv if the interviews that matter to you genuinely happen on scheduled video calls, your candidates reliably join links, and you want a library of recorded video to scrub through later.
Choose Superscribe if most of your day is unscheduled, on your mobile, or in someone’s office, and what you need at the end of it is written output rather than footage.
Get the workflow, not just the tool
Run one full screening day through it before you decide
Take a normal day of candidate and client calls, let every one of them come back as notes and next steps, then compare that to what you would have written from memory at 6pm.
Why I built it around calls instead of meetings
I am Siim. I built Superscribe because I kept losing the same thing: the work happened out loud, and then I rebuilt it in writing hours later, badly. Spoken work is where the detail is, and typing it up from memory is where the detail dies.
Recruiting is the clearest version of that problem I have found. The output you owe people is entirely made of things that were said. A scorecard is quotes. A hiring manager update is quotes. A candidate follow-up is a promise you made out loud twenty minutes ago. So the product does not stop at a transcript. It turns the call into the next step and puts that step one tap away.
What changes on a normal screening day
Calls and meetings are filed to the right project automatically, so the second conversation with a candidate sits next to the first without you tagging anything. Activities can be pushed to Pipedrive, and anything else in your stack can pull the same structured output through the API and MCP. Business Voice adds seats and pooled minutes when a whole desk works this way. The solo app is free to start.
The difference is small and daily. Scorecards get written the same day, because the substance is already there. Hiring managers get specifics instead of two lines. Salary and notice period come from the transcript rather than your best recollection. The hour you spent writing up calls at 6pm goes back to making more of them.
Three questions recruiters ask
Do candidates have to install or agree to anything? No. It is your phone and your number, and the call works exactly as it normally does for them. Record in line with the rules where you and the candidate are, and tell them you are recording.
What about interviews that happen in a room? Tap Start meeting and put the phone on the table. The recording state is visible, speakers are separated and named when they introduce themselves, and the minutes with decisions and follow-ups are ready when you walk out.
Does it work for calls that are not in English? Yes. Transcription covers many languages with automatic detection, which is the normal case if you source across markets.
Related paths
Do it on the next call
Open your next screening call and let it write itself up
Answer it the way you always do. Then look at the notes and the actions before you dial the next candidate.