Riverside Reviews & Product Details

This is the easiest, fastest to publish podcast hosted. I love the webinar and livestream features too!

The studio every now and then doesn't record so you have to create a new studio. Besides that it's great!

AI clips, remove silencing, makes it easy to post and export.

It was designed with the needs of podcasters in mind rather than meetings like people who record on Zoom, and the team are lovely and very responsive to feedback so that the product remains relevants to the needs of podcaster as the industry changes so fast. The AI features have been helpful as I mostly edit on my own, but my absolute favourite feature is in-text editing. It makes it very easy to use and I had no trouble learning it even as a luddite with no patience for learning new tech.

I'd like the process of exporting a full size episode to be more streamlined than go in the editor, export the episode, then download the episode.

Remote podcast recordings and editing all in one place, and easy and quick so I don't hate my younger self for starting a podcast and want to quit on account of the production.

Learning isn't hard to grasp. video and audio quality is excellent, and the magic tools make editing hour-long videos a "one click and finish in minutes!" A great short generator tool as well that lures more viewers.

I would like to be able to have more than one person as an Admin, have the ability to add more layers during editing, and the ability to overlay images and photos with timing options to insert images or logos whenever you please throughout the video would be nice.

A platform for remote video recording allows me to have more interviews with guest that arent in the studio and still have high quality recordings.

Riverside allows you to record each person seperately, video and audio so that you can create a great podcast. It has easy to use editing and transcription features as well as tools to help you create sound bites/audiograms from your podcast.

You maybe fooled into thinking that the video quality is low at the time of recording but the final video is of much higher quality.

With recording software and meeting software it's all one audio and all one video so it can be hard to get the right balance for podcasts. Riverside also makes editing and transcription really easy.

The editing software and all the features are amazing. It feels like they are constantly updating their features too.

The editor could be a little more precise with the slide bar. If you could zoom into the track too to make cuts even more precise that would be optimal.

Amazing video editing which is quick and easy to use

I am new to recording platforms for video and podcast. I was turned on to this platform by my mentor, Sean Shahkarami. It's very user friendly and has been a breeze to use!

My wish would be to have video previews that are not low res. I also would like to be able to upload my content directly to all my social platforms.

At this time, I am not sure.

Riverside is close to perfect and provides a very easy and seamless way to produce podcasts. What's even better: they take suggestions serious and are very responsive, they improve very quick.

There is noting to dislike because of their high responsiveness in case of suggestions.

Riverside provides the best video-audio quality for me doing podcasts. It's really very easy to handle – you can hardly make any mistakes, even it its the first time using it. From recording, via post-production to publishing they provide a perfect work-flow for me. And in some points, using AI they are even kind of magic. This because they really provide good working AI and not that nonsense-AI you often find elsewhere. However this is great, the very most impressive part is their responsiveness in the customer-support. I can really keep up my workflow, asking something and receiving an answer always quick enough to keep going.

It does what it says it will do, for a reasonable price. The recordings are of professional quality because audio and video are recorded locally. All of my friends who have podcasts use Riverside too and are very happy with it.

Some minor things - when you navigate to their website and then go to a studio, it opens a new tab. But then it doesn't like to have multiple riverside tabs open when you start recording, so you have to close previous tabs. Strange workflow. I also don't as soon as you join a studio, a red record button appears on the browser tab... it makes it seem like you're recording even if you're not. I made the mistake of doing an entire hour-long podcast (with a guest), and didn't realize until the end that I never hit the record button! Needless to say, I'm just more mindful of that now. Lastly, the recordings don't always upload automatically. I haven't figured out why, but this has happened with several of my guests. They then have to click on a link and follow some prompts... I almost had a heart attack the first time, but we got it to work eventually. It did take about 30min to figure out though.

High quality video and audio.

easy and quick to use great customer service -- was curious about receiving email notifications for billing purposes with receipts and was connected to Anne. i really appreciated that she was supportive and I felt really "heard" as a customer, which I'm always grateful for. Thanks Anne!

nothing at the moment ... love all of the new features!! would love an option to receive email notifications when billed with a copy of the receipt...

easy and quick podcast production at an affordable price makes my life much easier as an award-winning author, artist, and activist for content production and podcasting, which is a huge contribution to increasing my brand value!

It's very simple to use. There is absolutely no learning curve. You hit record, wait a tiny bit, follow that up with a few more clicks here and there, and you have an output. I initially tried to do a bit of editing on Final Cut Pro but then figured a way around that as well, so do not really spend any time editing. If there are some minor edits you need to make, it's super easy to remove words and sentences, and it works. If you are like me (a startup founder at saas.snowpal.com where we provide APIs for businesses to go to market in quick time), and have not a whole lot of time to spend on post-production work, and are primarily focused on the subject matter expertise of your content, I can't see why you wouldn't want to use Riverside.fm.

I don't know if I know of any serious downsides but since this is a required field, I have to write something so I am going to recommend some features! 1. After an edit is done, there doesn't appear to be a way to save the changes so I find myself doing the same thing multiple times. This could use some improvement. 2. The time it takes to convert is not terribly long but if you need HD content and the length of your video is long, it can take a bit of time (that's not to say that FCP is super quick even on the latest Apple machines so this is quite understandable). 3. The layout options are rather limited, and I would like one where you can place your guest picture-in-picture and still add some borders around the frame. 4. Translation of transcripts would be real handy (to appease global audiences). 5. After a video is exported, it places it on the page in a horizontal layout and that page could use a bit of rework to improve UX.

I needed a way to invite guests to my podcast, and record the sessions in high quality with minimal requirement for post production work, and I tried a few other tools before I landed on this one. Riverside.fm delivered to its promises (maybe, it should run for office :)).