# Riverside Reviews **Vendor:** RiversideFM **Category:** [Audio Editing Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/audio-editing) **Average Rating:** 4.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 1,680 ## About Riverside Riverside is an all-in-one podcast and video studio for businesses and content creators who demand professional quality without technical complexity. Podcasters, video creators, and businesses across the globe are producing studio-quality content in a fraction of the time it would take with traditional methods. Riverside puts professional production capabilities in your hands to: - Record crystal-clear audio and video regardless of internet connection - Edit content with intuitive, time-saving tools leveraging AI - Repurpose content automatically for multiple channels - Live stream to any social platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, and more) - Transcribe audio and video files in 100+ languages with 99% accuracy - Host and distribute your podcast to major directories like Spotify, Apple, and YouTube. Forget about expensive studio setups, complex recording equipment, or unreliable video conferencing tools. Riverside is your complete solution for professional-grade content creation. Everyone from seasoned podcasters to first-time creators can use it to produce broadcast-quality recordings without technical expertise. Riverside's multi-track technology lets you: - Capture separate audio tracks for each participant - Maintain perfect quality even with unstable internet - Export professional files compatible with any editing software - Plus, Riverside's powerful AI tools make production dramatically more efficient. Riverside AI enables you to: - Edit recordings by simply editing text in the transcript - Automatically remove filler words and awkward pauses - Repurpose long-form content into social clips with a single click. Available in-browser on any device, plus dedicated Mac and mobile apps, Riverside integrates recording, editing, and publishing tools within a single user-friendly interface. Businesses and content creators use Riverside across diverse audio and video production scenarios: - Podcast recording, editing, hosting, and publishing - Remote interviews with experts - Marketing content such as testimonials and case studies - Live-streaming conferences with multiple presenters - Webinars with interactive elements and screen sharing - Screen capturing and solo recording for tutorials and product demos Riverside is the platform powering professional content for thousands of creators, from independent podcasters such as Tim Ferriss, Mel Robbins, Guy Raz, to Fortune 500 brands including Spotify, Marvel, Hubspot, GE Aerospace, Accenture and more.. ## Riverside Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Riverside, finding it convenient for recording and editing podcasts. (1086 reviews) - Users praise the **high quality** of Riverside, benefiting from excellent video, audio, and transcription capabilities. (782 reviews) - Users love the **high quality** audio and video output from Riverside, enhancing their podcasting and interview experiences. (732 reviews) - Users appreciate the **local recording** feature of Riverside, ensuring high-quality audio and video without lag. (672 reviews) - Users praise the **high-quality video recordings** of Riverside, enhancing their overall content creation experience. (657 reviews) - Audio Quality (539 reviews) - Easy Recording (532 reviews) - Easy Editing (496 reviews) - Features (475 reviews) - Video Editing (462 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **recording issues** with desync and quality dips, especially with multiple participants, impacting overall usability. (248 reviews) - Users desire **missing features** like green screen capability and more editing tools in Riverside for improved usability. (218 reviews) - Users desire additional **feature capabilities** , particularly for social media publication and advanced editing options. (214 reviews) - Users face **audio issues** including difficulties with input selection and unwanted background noise during recordings. (157 reviews) - Users are frustrated with the **editing issues** in Riverside, lacking advanced tools and accurate clipping functionality. (143 reviews) - Limited Features (140 reviews) - Editing Difficulties (139 reviews) - Feature Limitations (125 reviews) - Limited Customization (118 reviews) - Upload Issues (111 reviews) ## Riverside Reviews ### 1. My Go-To Platform for High-Quality Podcast Recording **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Wes A. | President, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** I love how easy Riverside is to use without sacrificing quality. The platform is incredibly intuitive, so I can focus on the conversation instead of worrying about the tech. The recording quality is consistently high, which is critical for a professional podcast, and the editing tools are powerful but still simple to navigate. It saves me a ton of time and makes the entire process, from recording to final cut, feel seamless. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** There’s not much to dislike. Occasionally there’s a minor technical hiccup, but it’s rare and typically resolves quickly without impacting the overall experience. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** Riverside solves the challenge of recording high-quality remote conversations without the usual technical headaches. It ensures both audio and video are captured locally, so I don’t have to worry about internet issues ruining an episode. That reliability gives me confidence when recording with guests, and the built-in editing tools streamline my workflow, saving time and allowing me to focus more on creating great content instead of managing production. ### 2. Easy Editing, Amazing Co-Creator Tools, and Truly Helpful Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** terrence p. | Podcaster, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** I absolutely love working with Riverside FM, editing is much easier and if I have a problem I can always use chatbot or talk to a real person, although the chatbot is really good at finding the problem which is another plus for using Riverside. The ease of learning the editing tools and the co creator tools are absolutely amazing! Also having the help videos on YouTube are also really helpful. My overall experience has been great and whatever issues I have there is always a way to help and grow in producing my podcast **What do you dislike about Riverside?** I don’t have a downside to using Riverside, even when I first started and was new to podcasting and didn’t know how to edit, it was a wealth of knowledge on the website and YouTube channel **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** Riverside has created ways to put my podcast on All my outlets and it has even created a website just for me to share my podcast!! ### 3. Feature-Rich but Unreliable and Buggy **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaila S. | Marketing for Small Business, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Riverside?** I like that Riverside makes it really easy to record, edit, and draft copy for final show publishing. I also love that I my Riverside Studio has a dedicated URL, so I'm able to send recording links to my studio guests without having to manually pull unique links. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** While Riverside has a ton of fantastic and incredibly helpful features, I'm afraid it has been incredibly unreliable over my past year of use. The time I've saved with their amazing editing tools and copywriting has been overridden by time spent troubleshooting and fixing things. (Not sure if their R&D team just doesn't exist, or is too busy developing new features without smoothing out existing? This signals too-rapid business growth, so they need to slow down a beat to take inventory.) I have had issues where I go to edit or export tracks, and I'm simply unable to. Imagine spending time recording or editing your episodes then trying to get them to the next stage, and suddenly there's an error! More frustratingly, the software is unclear about the errors, so either A. nothing will happen when it's supposed to, or B. a random error message will appear without further context, so you have no idea how to fix it. It's also impossible to find where all of my uploads live, so I don't know where that media is, and there is no way to better organize it. It is difficult to get a hold of a human through their AI chatbot. And, when I am able to get a hold of a human, it's a 50/50 chance that they will actually fix the problem in a timely manner. When I've asked for partial refunds to at least compensate for a fraction of the time that I've spent having to fix their buggy issues, they just point back to their terms of service, which to me shows that they cannot guarantee their product. Customer support has been lackluster overall. Initial setup of Riverside could have been smoother. There are technical specs that needed to be set up, and there was very little guidance on how to do that. So, I made a lot of mistakes that could have been prevented with simple UI info markers. Because Riverside is so unreliable and buggy, I'm afraid to move my show hosting onto Riverside, even though Riverside has that capability. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Riverside to capture video and audio for my podcast and edit the show. It helps with editing, creating transcripts, chapters, show summaries, and generating episode keywords. ### 4. Riverside Makes Podcast Recording and Sharing Simple from Day One **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric P. | Podcast Host, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** Riverside has made podcasting simple and seamless for someone like me who had no experience whatsoever with content creation. We are in our 4th year of making our podcast, and while we had to learn a lot about content, editing, and marketing, the technical side of recording and publishing has been easy from day one. Also, Riverside has added quite a few features in that time, like Magic Clips for example, that make sharing our work even easier. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** A small number of times, downloads did not complete properly for one of our guests. When this happens, the Riverside team is very responsive, and they have always resolved the issue. But these instances can be a bit frustrating because I cannot edit an publish a show with one of the tracks missing. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to make a podcast but had zero experience. I signed up for a Riverside account, and we were able to record and publish a podcast within a few days. There are a lot of challenges with content creation, but Riverside eliminated the ones related to recording and publishing. ### 5. Easy All-in-One Podcast Recording, Editing, and Posting That Streamlined My Workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ali B. | CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** I really enjoyed the easy to use recording options to kick start my podcast and creator journey. Once I started and saw all of the features I could add on with the pro version, it was a no brainer! Record, edit, and posting all in one - not only saving me multiple login accounts and hundreds in other softwares, but it's streamlined my workflow tremendously. Can't wait to try out going Live with YT too! And my 10/10 to recommend usually comes down to the magic clips - game changing! **What do you dislike about Riverside?** I wish the iPad version had the option to go live on YT. The editor and accessing video recordings are a little wonky and intimidating but once you get the hang of it, it gets better. I also think there are A LOT of features which again can seem overwhelming so sifting through it all takes time when I'd rather just get the work done the way I can in that moment. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving me money with one pro account for recording WITH teleprompter, an editor WITH AI, and ready to post social media generated clips. So much time saved from not having to login to so many accounts and faster editing options. ### 6. Great Platform for Recording High-Quality Podcasts and Interviews **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura B. | CEO, founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** Riverside makes recording podcasts and interviews simple and high quality. I love that it records locally, which keeps the audio and video clear even if the internet connection isn’t perfect. The platform is easy to use, the separate tracks make editing much easier, and it helps streamline the process of recording professional content for podcasts, interviews, and online conversations. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** Sometimes the upload or processing time can take a little longer than expected, especially with larger recordings. Occasionally guests who are not familiar with the platform need a little guidance to get set up, but once they are in the studio it works smoothly. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** Riverside solves the challenge of recording high-quality remote interviews and podcast episodes without needing expensive studio equipment. It allows creators, businesses, and podcasters to easily record conversations from anywhere while maintaining professional audio and video quality. ### 7. All-in-One Podcasting in Riverside: Record, Edit, Schedule, and Publish with Ease **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sarinah P. | Creator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** I love that I can do EVERYTHING for my podcast all within one platform. I even set up my Youtube/Spotify/Apple Pods right through Riverside. My sister and I host together, and I can connect two mics and a camera, then record, edit, schedule, and post everything all within Riverside. Literally TYSM. Podcasting used to overwhelm me, but that changed once I found it. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** I feel like I keep making the same few edits to some of the Magic clips, and it doesn’t always apply my settings when it generates new clips. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** It streamlines the entire (overwhelming) podcast recording, editing, scheduling, posting etc experience. I can get EVERYTHING I need from auto transcriptions, on screen captions, tons of multi-platform shortform generative clips (perfect for Reels/Tiktok + Shorts, etc). Lots of editing tools. And the AI tools that I use are super effective, like the audio enhancer, and the button to remove pauses, uhm's, etc. ### 8. Streamlined solution for remote video and audio podcasting sessions. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben S. | Sr. Video Editor & Director, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Riverside?** The browser text based editor has really come a long way in just a short time. We initially selected Riverside just as a recording platform and edited off of the platform but I have to say with the exception of a few tweaks we edit all of our YouTube episodes and 90% of the audio episode right inside the Riverside editor. It's that good. Audio sweetening, color correction, captions, formatting. It's all there and it's snappy and responsive. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** Live streaming to YouTube and FB isn't always the most intuitive process but some of this is due to limitations of those platforms specifically. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** My problem was how to record remote sessions from halfway across the country and keep the quality of the video and audio high. Riverside accomplishes this because I and my guest are both uploading original files within the app during our session. Even if one of us looks a little blurry during the interview I know what they're uploading is a full quality video file for use later. It's extremely convenient and frankly a much better solution than Zoom. ### 9. Riverside offers services that speed up my work and improve the quality of the content I produce. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peterson T. | I am a consultant working with five different non-profits., Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** Editing saves time, and the AI tools that generate clips and short reels are decent and keep improving. I appreciate being able to add my clients' branding to videos, and the audio enhancement is awesome. The recording quality is very high, and the videos come out sharp and crisp. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** It is not as good at audio editing. While I now use video in addition to the regular podcasts, the flow of audio for video and audio-only is very different. The editing tools that remove filler words and pauses require extra editing on my part to create the smooth sound I want for the podcasts. Also, it decides what "filler words" are, and I would like the option to add a list of words and phrases that I can flag. For instance, "I think that," "I mean," "And" at the beginning of a sentence. I can, of course, do this through the search function, but that is cumbersome. The AI assistant that can produce text and thumbnails is just ok. It could be much better. As a result, I either edit a lot of what it suggests or I use ChatGPT or Gemini. There is another issue I have been trying to bring to Riverside's attention. They are very good at responding to support issues, but I cannot get anyone to respond to this dilemma I have. Riverside is Israeli-owned, and some of my clients and their guests, because of political reasons, have reservations about working with companies out of Israel. Riverside is not on any of the "boycott" lists, but my clients want assurances that Riverside is not connected with the Israeli government or actions in Palestine. From what I can tell, it is not. It is a good product, and the people running it may hold personal political beliefs, but the platform and the company seem neutral on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I need to provide more assurances to my clients, but I cannot until I hear from someone in Riverside management. Otherwise, I would have answered the question, "How likely is it that you would recommend Riverside to a friend or colleague?" with a 10. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating fairly accurate transcripts easily. Cloud storage for video. Recording guests remotely. ### 10. The Foundational Tool for Our Content-Led Growth & Investor Storytelling **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander V. | Founder & CEO, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 02, 2026 **What do you like best about Riverside?** What I value most is how Riverside turns my most valuable asset—my time and expertise—into a scalable, high-fidelity content engine. As a founder, I'm constantly explaining our complex software to investors, potential hires, and early users. With Riverside, I can record a perfect, multi-camera product demo or a technical deep-dive with a co-founder in one take, regardless of our locations. The local recording feature is non-negotiable; it guarantees that every screen share, every line of code, and every nuanced explanation is captured in pristine quality, free from internet glitches. This allows me to produce investor update videos, onboarding tutorials, and community AMA sessions that look professionally produced, without the cost or time of a production team. It's founder efficiency at its best. **What do you dislike about Riverside?** For a resource-constrained startup, the pricing, while justified, sits in a considered tier. The per-host model is perfect for our core content creation, but as we scale, inviting multiple team members as occasional hosts for departmental videos requires planning. A more flexible "guest host" add-on or a modestly priced tier for growing teams would lower the barrier for broader internal adoption beyond the founders and marketing leads. **What problems is Riverside solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the critical early-stage challenges of building trust and scaling founder-led marketing. For a technical SaaS product, seeing is believing. A crystal-clear demo video created with Riverside is more effective than a dozen slide decks in moving an enterprise deal forward or securing a follow-on meeting with an investor. It also powers our content-led growth strategy. We repurpose long-form interviews with industry experts into dozens of short, engaging clips for social media, driving organic traffic and establishing our thought leadership. Riverside transforms me from a bottleneck—the only person who can give "the demo"—into a force multiplier, amplifying our message and accelerating our path to product-market fit. ## Riverside Discussions - [Can you screen share on Riverside FM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/can-you-screen-share-on-riverside-fm) - 2 comments - [What is Riverside FM?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-riverside-fm) - 2 comments - [How does Riverside FM work?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-does-riverside-fm-work) - 1 comment ## Riverside Pricing - **Free**: Free - **Standard**: Starting at $15.00 The essentials for a great recording & editing - **Pro (Our most popular)**: Starting at $24.00 The full studio experience - **Business**: Contact Us Great for companies producing video content in-house (Use by companies like TED, Spotify, Netflix) [View full pricing details](https://www.g2.com/products/riverside/pricing) ## Riverside Integrations - [4K video downloader Pro](https://www.g2.com/products/4k-video-downloader-pro/reviews) - 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