Riverside

What is Riverside?

Riverside is an online studio for making podcasts and video, covering recording, editing, repurposing, live streaming and publishing in one product. Sessions are recorded locally on each participant's device, in up to 4K video and uncompressed audio on separate tracks, so quality does not depend on the internet connection. Editing happens in a transcript: cutting or moving text changes the video. AI features remove filler words and silences, clean up sound, correct eye contact, generate B-roll from a prompt, produce clips and show notes, and translate or dub content into more than 30 languages. The platform can stream in full HD to several destinations at once, run webinars with registration and reminders, and host a podcast with analytics and distribution to Spotify, Apple and YouTube. There is a Mac app, mobile apps and an MCP connection for AI assistants.

Key Features

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Online tools Webinars

Use Cases

Remote Interview Podcasts

Record a host and guests in different places and receive studio-grade separate tracks.

Cutting Social Clips

Pull short captioned segments from a long episode for reels and TikTok.

Lead-Generation Webinars

Collect registrations, sync them to HubSpot and reuse the recording afterwards.

Multilingual Releases

Translate and dub an episode so it can be published for other language audiences.

Branded Company Video

Apply a saved logo, colours, intro and outro to testimonial or internal videos.

Things to know

Free plan adds a watermark

The Free plan is limited to 720p video with a Riverside watermark and a one-off two hours of separate-track recording.

Track downloads are capped

Paid plans below Business include a monthly number of separate-track download hours; recording itself is unlimited.

Some AI features use credits

AI Translation, AI B-Roll and Animated Clips draw on AI Credits, and more can be purchased when they run out.

Webinars need the Webinar plan

Registration, polls, Q&A and HubSpot sync are only included from the Webinar plan upward.

FAQs

Who it's for

• Podcasters
• Video producers
• Marketers
• YouTubers
• Webinar hosts
• Media teams

Tagspodcast recordingtext-based editinglive streamingwebinarsAI clipspodcast hosting

Used in these workflows

• Where AI tools fit in making a documentary, from research to subtitlesStage 2: Recording and transcribing interviews
• What it takes to start a podcast, and where AI tools save the most timeStage 3: Recording the episode
• Where AI tools fit in making a documentary, from research to subtitlesStage 7: Editing the film
• What it takes to start a podcast, and where AI tools save the most timeStage 9: Hosting and distribution

Each guide lists the stages of one job and the tools that help at each stage. All guides

Alternatives to Riverside

Tool	Free plan	Starting price	API
DescriptAI video and audio editor where you cut recordings by editing the transcript, with an assistant called Underlord.	Yes	—	Yes
PodsqueezeAI podcast tool that produces transcripts, show notes, clips, audiograms and cleaned-up audio from an episode.	—	—	—
ChoppityAI video editor that cuts podcasts and long videos into captioned short clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.	Yes	—	Yes
RSS.comPodcast hosting with automatic distribution, analytics, monetisation tools and AI-generated transcripts.	Yes	$15/mo	Yes
SubmagicAI video editor that captions, trims and clips footage into short-form videos and schedules them for social.	—	—	Yes

Listed in the same categories as Riverside. A starting price appears only where we checked it on the maker’s pricing page; a dash means not checked or not published. All Video Editing tools