Riverside.fm
Summary
Remote recording platforms all look equivalent on a Zoom call — the difference shows up when your guest's Wi-Fi drops mid-sentence and your 'studio-quality' file is a compressed mess. Riverside solves that by recording locally on each participant's machine and uploading the clean file afterward.
The local-first architecture is the load-bearing wall of the whole platform: each speaker's video and audio are captured at the source — up to 4K video and uncompressed WAV — so a bad internet connection degrades the preview stream, not the final file. From there, a text-based editor lets you cut by editing the transcript rather than scrubbing a timeline, which collapses post-production time for interview-heavy formats. AI tools handle noise removal, filler-word stripping, eye-contact correction, and clip generation without leaving the platform. The wall appears when your workflow demands fine-grained color grading, complex multi-cam switching, or the kind of layered audio mixing a DAW handles — at that point editors export tracks and finish elsewhere. Teams running high-volume enterprise webinar programs also hit limits around audience scale and CRM integration depth that push them toward dedicated webinar infrastructure.
Bottom line: Riverside earns its place for podcasters and content teams who need broadcast-quality remote recordings and fast social repurposing in one place — but production houses with complex post-production pipelines or enterprise webinar teams needing deep CRM automation will find themselves exporting out of Riverside before the job is done.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 days ago- Price
- $24/mo
- Free Tier
- Free tier available with limited features
Free
Get started with Riverside
- 1 studio
- 2 hours one-off separate audio & video tracks downloads
- Up to 720P video quality on desktop
- Up to 720P video quality on mobile
- 44.1 kHz audio quality
- 24 FPS frame rate
- 10 people in single session
- Standard virtual backgrounds
- Screen-share recording
- Noise reduction
Pro
Create polished, high-quality content
- 1 studio
- 15 hours of separate track downloads per month
- Studio-quality video & sound
- Up to 4K video
- 48kHz audio
- No watermark
- Teleprompter for host
- Unlimited text-based editing
- AI editing & repurposing agent
- Magic Audio, eye contact, unlimited transcriptions
- Magic clips & show notes
- Podcast hosting & analytics
- Podcast website
- Publish to YouTube, Spotify, Apple & podcast directories
- Share to social media
- Live chat support
Grow
Grow and engage your audience
- 2 studios
- 20 hours of separate track downloads per month
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- Audience Growth
- Content scheduling to YouTube
- Podcast hosting for 2 shows
- Embeddable Media
- AI thumbnails
- Full HD 1080p live streaming
- Multistream to unlimited destinations
- Custom RTMP
- Omnichat Live call-ins
- Live stream chat
- Custom studio overlays & lower thirds
- Backstage speaker management
Webinar
Webinar Plan, host & repurpose webinars
- 3 studios
- 25 hours of separate track downloads per month
- Everything in Grow, plus:
- Host webinars with up to 100 registrants
- Pre-record & stream the session as live
- No time limits
- Unlimited sessions
- Lead capture tool
- Custom branded registration form
- Automated email reminders & follow-ups
- Q&A, live call-ins, polls & reactions
- Webinar analytics
- HubSpot integration
Business
Produce at scale with full control
- Unlimited studios
- Unlimited separate track downloads
- Everything in Webinar, plus:
- Up to 10,000 webinar registrants
- Custom branding
- Async recording
- Simultaneous recording
- Podcast hosting for unlimited shows
- Producer mode & full remote control
- Control guest input & output
- Teleprompter for host & guest
- Presentation recorder
- Custom frame rates: 24, 25, 29.97 FPS
- Production workspaces & custom roles
- Collaborative editing
- Non-destructive timeline exports
- Producer on demand
- Salesforce integration & API access
- SSO (Okta, Azure)
- SOC2 & ISO27001 compliance
- Dedicated CSM & customized onboarding
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Local recording on every participant's device captures uncompressed audio and up to 4K video regardless of connection quality, so a guest's unstable Wi-Fi degrades the preview — not the file you actually edit.
- Separate track download for each speaker means you can fix crosstalk, swap layouts, and mix audio independently, which eliminates the destructive editing problem that comes with merged recordings.
- Text-based editing lets you cut by deleting transcript words rather than frame-scrubbing, so a 60-minute interview can be roughed out in minutes without timeline experience.
- AI clip generation and the 'Co-Creator' asset suite produce social cuts, captions, thumbnails, and show notes from a single session, so a solo creator ships a week of content from one recording without a separate editing pass.
- Direct publishing to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts is built in, so you avoid the manual upload loop and metadata re-entry that breaks distribution cadence for high-frequency publishers.
Cons
Sign in to edit- The text-based editor handles cuts and transcript corrections but stops short of color grading, advanced audio mixing, and layered motion graphics — teams with a post-production specialist on staff export tracks to Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or a DAW before the job is done, splitting the workflow the platform was supposed to consolidate.
- AI voice and lip-sync correction for 'said the wrong thing' edits is a paid-only feature, so teams on the free tier who discover the capability in a demo cannot use it in production without upgrading.
- Webinar functionality covers recording, streaming, and basic lead capture, but teams running demand-generation programs that need audience segmentation triggers, CRM field mapping, or post-event automation report switching to dedicated webinar platforms — the webinar feature is sufficient for internal communications but not for high-volume marketing programs where those integrations are the product.
- There is no self-hosted option, so teams operating under data residency requirements or strict enterprise security policies that prohibit cloud-only storage have no path to compliance and must evaluate alternatives from the start.
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- Platforms
- Web (browser-based Chrome), iOS app, Android app, Mac app
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-09T17:18:49.740Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Podcasters conducting remote interviews
- Content creators and video producers
- Marketing teams producing webinar content
- Businesses hosting internal webinars or communications
- Solo podcasters wanting an all-in-one solution
What it does well
- Recording remote interviews and podcasts with studio-quality audio/video
- Live streaming podcasts and webinars to multiple platforms simultaneously
- Creating social media clips and short-form content from longer recordings
- Publishing and hosting podcasts with integrated distribution
- Hosting webinars with automated lead capture and audience engagement
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Riverside.fm free?
- Riverside.fm is a paid tool ($24/mo). A 14-day free trial is available.
- Is Riverside.fm open source?
- No — Riverside.fm is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Riverside.fm have an API?
- Yes. Riverside.fm exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://riverside.fm for details.
- When was Riverside.fm released?
- Riverside.fm was first released in 2020.
- What platforms does Riverside.fm support?
- Riverside.fm is available on: Web (browser-based Chrome), iOS app, Android app, Mac app.
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Riverside is a browser-based platform for recording, editing, repurposing, and distributing video and audio content. The core workflow runs in sequence: record a solo session or multi-guest interview with local capture on every participant’s device, edit in a transcript-driven timeline, use AI tools to generate clips and promotional assets, then publish directly to YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts. Live streaming to multiple destinations simultaneously runs as a separate mode inside the same product. The vendor describes the platform as covering the full content lifecycle without requiring external tools for each stage.
The differentiating technical feature is local recording with separate track download. Because audio and video are captured on each participant’s machine rather than over the call, the recording quality is independent of connection stability. Each speaker’s file downloads as a separate track — WAV for audio, MP4 for video — which makes post-production mixing and crosstalk removal practical in ways that server-side compressed recordings are not. The AI audio enhancement layer then applies noise reduction and level correction to any mic, not just broadcast hardware.
Riverside fits teams that produce regular interview or podcast content and need to move from raw recording to distributed clip without assembling a separate toolchain for each step. It fits less well when post-production requirements outgrow the text-based editor — color grading, complex audio mixing, and layered motion graphics all require export to dedicated software, at which point the ‘all-in-one’ value erodes. Enterprise webinar deployments that need deep audience segmentation, CRM field mapping, or attendance-triggered automation at scale will find the webinar feature functional but thin compared to platforms built specifically for that use case.
The platform is cloud-hosted with no self-hosted option. An API is available for teams building integrations or automating parts of their content workflow. Mac and mobile apps exist alongside the browser client, and the vendor states AI translation and dubbing supports over 30 languages.