Riverside
"Riverside earns its reputation through the local recording technology that makes 4K remote interviews genuinely achievable without a production setup. The text-based editing workflow is the most intuitive available for spoken-word content and Magic Clips saves meaningful time on repurposing. The Pro plan at $24 per month annually covers everything a professional podcaster or video creator needs for regular weekly publishing. The free plan with 2 hours of monthly recording is enough to properly evaluate recording quality and the editing experience before committing."
- Local recording technology delivers 4K video and 48kHz audio regardless of internet connection quality
- Text-based editor cuts spoken-word post-production time significantly
- Magic Clips generates social content automatically after every recording
- Direct publishing to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts from one dashboard
- Guests join recordings for free on all plans including free tier
- Used by TED, Spotify, Marvel, Tim Ferriss, and Gary Vaynerchuk
- Annual billing saves approximately 35% across all paid tiers
- Starter plan does not include separate audio and video tracks per participant
- Free plan limited to 2 hours of recording per month
- AI transcription limited to 10 hours per month on Pro before additional charges apply
- Business plan pricing requires a sales conversation with no published rate
Key Features
Local Recording Technology
Every participant records audio and video locally on their own device and uploads it separately, eliminating internet quality as a variable and delivering studio-grade 4K video and 48kHz audio regardless of connection stability
Text-Based Editor
The full transcript appears alongside your video timeline and every word is linked to the corresponding footage, letting you edit your recording by deleting words from the transcript rather than scrubbing a timeline
Magic Clips
Automatically analyses every recording after the session ends and generates a ranked selection of short-form vertical clips with captions, ready to publish to TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts without manual editing
Magic Audio
One-click background noise removal and audio enhancement applied across the entire recording, turning laptop microphone quality into something approaching studio output automatically
AI Transcription and Show Notes
Generates accurate transcripts and structured show notes automatically after every recording, included on Pro plans with up to 10 hours of transcription per month
Separate Multi-Track Recording
Each participant's audio and video are captured on individual tracks and delivered as separate WAV and MP4 files, giving full post-production control in any external editor
Live Streaming
Stream directly to YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn, and Facebook simultaneously while recording locally at full quality, available on Pro plans
Direct Publishing
Publish finished episodes with one click to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts directly from the Riverside dashboard without exporting and re-uploading
Brand Kit
Store logos, colours, intro sequences, outro overlays, and custom episode templates that apply automatically to every recording for consistent branded output at scale
Teleprompter
Built-in teleprompter scrolls scripts at a controlled pace directly on screen during recording, available on Pro plans for script-based content and interviews
Pricing Plans
$0/mo
- ✓ 2 hours of recording/mo
- ✓ 720p video
- ✓ Basic editing tools
- ✓ Watermarked exports
$15/mo
- ✓ 5 hours of recording/mo
- ✓ Full 4K video & 48kHz audio
- ✓ Watermark-free exports
- ✓ Up to 2 hosts
$24/mo
- ✓ Unlimited recording hours
- ✓ Separate audio WAV & video tracks
- ✓ 10 hours AI transcription/mo
- ✓ Magic Clips & Magic Audio
- ✓ Live streaming & Direct publishing
Custom
- ✓ Advanced team management
- ✓ Roles and permissions
- ✓ SSO & Remote guest control
- ✓ Compliance certifications
About Riverside
Remote recording has always involved a quality tradeoff. Unstable connections, compressed video, and degraded audio have been the accepted cost of interviewing guests who are not in the same room. Riverside eliminates that tradeoff entirely. Every participant's audio and video is recorded locally on their device and uploaded separately, meaning internet quality has zero effect on the final output. What comes back is studio-grade 4K video and 48kHz audio regardless of how bad the connection was during the call.
The text-based editor is where Riverside saves the most time in post-production. Every recording is automatically transcribed and the transcript appears alongside the video timeline. Delete a word from the transcript and the corresponding audio and video are removed from the recording instantly. Filler words, false starts, and long pauses can all be cleared in a single pass without touching a timeline or scrubbing through footage manually. For podcasters and video creators who produce weekly content, this changes editing from a half-day process to something closer to a one-hour task.
Magic Clips analyses the full recording after each session and automatically identifies the strongest moments, generating ready-to-publish short-form clips with captions for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts without any manual selection. Magic Audio applies one-click background noise removal and audio enhancement across the entire recording. AI transcription and show notes are generated automatically on Pro plans, covering the full post-production workflow inside a single tool.
Riverside covers every distribution channel from inside the platform. Finished recordings publish directly to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts with one click. Live streaming to YouTube, Twitch, LinkedIn, and Facebook runs simultaneously with recording on Pro plans. A brand kit stores logos, colours, intro and outro sequences, and custom overlays that apply automatically to every episode for consistent output at scale.
Used by TED, Spotify, Marvel, Apple, Tim Ferriss, and Gary Vaynerchuk alongside hundreds of thousands of independent creators, the platform is trusted at both ends of the production scale.