Riverside

What it is

Riverside is a browser-based studio for recording remote podcast and video interviews. Each participant’s audio and video records locally in their own browser at up to 4K and 48kHz, then uploads once the session ends, so a dropped connection during recording does not cost the footage the way a live video call would. On top of recording, it bundles AI editing (removing filler words, fixing eye contact, editing by transcript), automatic show notes and transcripts, and an “AI Co-Creator” that turns one long recording into clips, social posts, thumbnails and headlines for different platforms.

The product used to live at riverside.fm. That address now 301-redirects to riverside.com, and the brand on the new site drops the “.fm,” though the company’s own footer still names the legal entity RiversideFM, Inc.

Who should use it

Someone running a remote interview podcast or video show who wants recording, AI editing and clip generation under one login instead of a separate call tool, editor and clipping app. It fits a show recording weekly or more, since Pro’s 5 monthly hours of separate-track recording go quickly across even a handful of hour-long episodes.

What stands out

The free plan is a trial disguised as a tier: 2 hours of multi-track recording, but as a one-time allowance rather than a monthly quota, capped at 720p and watermarked. That is a meaningfully smaller offer than a plan that resets every month, and it is worth knowing before assuming “free” means “free forever” the way it does on some competitors.

Paid plans track two separate meters that are easy to conflate: recording hours and download hours. Pro allows 5 hours of separate-track recording a month, useful for roughly five hour-long episodes, but 15 hours of separate-track downloads, which matters more for a show re-exporting or re-editing older sessions. Grow raises both ceilings to 15 and 20 hours respectively and adds social scheduling, a newsletter and a creator website; Webinar goes further for live audiences, capping registrants at 100 per session until the custom Business plan removes the limit entirely and adds SSO, API access and SOC2 and ISO27001 compliance for teams that need them.

The pitch for local recording is that a shaky connection cannot ruin the footage. Castmagic’s review of the product still lists distorted audio, out-of-sync tracks and long export processing times among the complaints it found, which suggests the local-recording design reduces but does not eliminate the technical problems it is meant to solve.

The verdict

For a remote interview show, Riverside’s combination of local per-guest recording and built-in AI editing removes several separate tools from the stack, and the free tier is a reasonable way to test that workflow before paying anything. The one-time nature of the free hours, rather than a monthly refresh, is the detail most likely to surprise someone who has not read the fine print.

Budget around actual output before picking a plan. A weekly hour-long show alone will use Pro’s 5 monthly recording hours on the show itself, before counting downloads of older sessions for re-editing, so a genuinely active show is closer to a Grow customer than a Pro one. Skip Riverside if a show already records in a shared physical space or works with a dedicated audio engineer, since the local-recording problem it solves is not the problem that setup has.