Alternatives to Riverside
A browser-based studio for recording, editing and publishing podcasts, interviews and video. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Riverside
A browser-based studio for recording, editing and publishing podcasts, interviews and video.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Riverside.
Descript
A video and audio editor where you edit recordings by editing their text transcript.
Descript also records, edits by transcript and publishes, and adds desktop apps for Windows and macOS, though it has no Android or iOS apps listed.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Riverside as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Gling
An AI video editor for YouTube creators that cuts bad takes, silences and filler words automatically.
Riverside adds remote recording of guests in up to 4K on separate tracks, with text-based editing and direct publishing, through a proprietary hosted service.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Cleanvoice
A web-based AI podcast editor that removes filler words, background noise, mouth sounds and silences.
Restream
A browser-based live video studio that multistreams one broadcast to more than 30 platforms.
OBS Studio
The standard free tool for recording a screen and for live streaming, built around scenes and sources.
OpusClip
A web tool that uses AI to cut long videos into short clips and publish them.
Captions
An AI video editor that cuts footage, adds captions and B-roll, and creates AI avatars.
