RiRiverside
Records every participant locally at up to 4K, so a bad connection never becomes a bad recording.
Riverside records interviews and podcasts by capturing each participant locally at up to 4K video and 48 kHz audio, then uploading progressively. It adds a text-based editor, AI clip generation, captions, translation and live streaming. Plans start free, Pro is fourteen dollars a month, twelve billed yearly.
What it is for
- Record a client testimonial properlyIt feels like a normal video call to the guest, and it produces broadcast-quality files with each side recorded locally. This is what we run testimonials on, and a testimonial is exactly the recording you cannot redo.
- Cut the episode from the transcriptText-based editing plus automatic clips, so a long conversation becomes publishable pieces without an editing suite.
- Get the separate tracks backEach participant comes back as their own file, so the edit is real editing rather than cropping a single composited video.
What I measured
- Published price, read 25 Sep 2026: free tier, Pro at 29 dollars a month or 24 billed yearly, Grow at 39 or 34, Webinar at 99 or 79, Business quoted by sales. The yearly totals shown are 288 dollars on Pro and 408 on Grow.
- The paid tiers buy recording hours, resolution and the AI tools. The local recording itself, which is the reason to be here, is present from the start.
- A 14-day free trial is offered on the paid plans.
What it is not for
- You record alone at your desk and publish the same day. A lighter tool will get it out faster. The way out: Record the solo pieces elsewhere and keep this for the interviews. Owning two tools in this category is cheaper than forcing one to cover both jobs badly.
- You need a quick annotated capture of a screen. Wrong category entirely.
- You will never use the studio quality. You are paying for the part that protects a recording you are not going to make. The way out: Start on the free tier and let a bad connection decide. The first time a guest's audio degrades on a normal recording, the studio quality stops being theoretical.
What it costs, as the vendor publishes it
| Free | 0 dollars | up to 720p, watermark on everything, 44.1 kHz audio, two hours of multi-track recording to try |
|---|---|---|
| Pro | 29 dollars a month, or 24 billed yearly at 288 a year | up to 4K video, 48 kHz audio, no watermark, teleprompter, one studio, fifteen hours of separate track downloads |
| Grow | 39 dollars a month, or 34 billed yearly at 408 a year | everything in Pro, plus live streaming, multistreaming, two studios, twenty hours of separate track downloads |
| Webinar | 99 dollars a month, or 79 billed yearly | everything in Grow, plus webinars up to a hundred registrants, lead capture, three studios |
| Business | quoted by sales | unlimited studios, up to ten thousand registrants, SSO, SOC 2 and ISO 27001, Salesforce, API |
- Priced per month with up to 20 percent off on yearly billing.
- The meters that matter are studios and separate track download hours, not seats. Recording itself is unlimited.
- 14-day free trial on the paid plans.
Vendor list price, read on their pricing page. The page shows the local currency of the visitor: these are the dollar figures their own FAQ states. Their pricing page. Read 9 Oct 2026.
No video on this one yet. When there is one it goes here, recorded on the real account. The page says so either way.
Questions people ask
What does local recording actually protect against?
Every network problem during the call. The file on each machine is the real recording, and the call quality is only what the participants hear at the time.
Is the free plan usable?
For trying it, yes. Exports carry a watermark and the hours are limited, so anything published runs on a paid tier.
Does it edit as well?
Text-based editing, automatic clips, captions and translation are included on the paid tiers. It is a recording tool that got an editor, and it shows in the best way.
Solo or guests?
Guests. Solo is where a lighter tool wins, because the insurance you are paying for here is about the other person connection.