Riverside

Pros: It is ever user friendly. A lot of content creators are not necessarily tech wizzes but they want easy content to make. The AI features that help make clips are super useful!

Cons: Riverside does not have any sound effects that could be added to podcasts. I used to use Spotify for creators and l liked it when l was able to add cool sound effects.

Pros: I enjoy the ability to record remotely with my guest, and have everything in one easy to use platform. I enjoy the ability to normalize audio and make adjustments on the platform. It's just easy. It's much easier than trying to do it in some roundabout way.

Cons: I think the editing platform needs streamlining. I am an editor, and so I typically use davinci or premiere, and the riverside editor is only JUST passable, to the point where I don't want to export and drag it into a real editor. If it were smoother, I'd be much happier.

Pros: Riverside has fantastic ai features that automatically summarize your video, create social media clips automatically, and make editing your video almost effortless.

Cons: I don’t really have many cons because I really love this platform however I do wish there was a way to present my slides so that presenter notes could still be visible to me only while I am going through the presentation. That is a little prohibitive.

Pros: Magic clips and magic audio makes post production a breeze! I can easily create 3 - 5 additional video clips from my podcast to use in social promotion.

Cons: Sometimes it gets buggy and kicks you out of editing, but usually it saves so often its not a problem.

Pros: The local recording changed everything for me. My guest's connection can go sideways, and my audio doesn't move. I do a weekly podcast and Friday Night Lives, and I need my sessions to hold. Riverside holds. The quality is there, the interface stays out of your way, and for somebody running everything solo, that's the difference.

Cons: The editor took me longer than it should have to figure out. Nobody really walks you through it. You learn it by doing it, which is fine, but it could be smoother. And the pricing tiers can feel like a stretch when you're building lean and every dollar has to earn its place.

Pros: I appreciate that Riverside is specifically built for podcasting and records high-quality audio and video content. It has been a reliable tool for my first year of podcasting, and I have no intentions of switching. I like the editing functionality, the AI "magic audio" enhancement, and the user experience for my podcast guests. I highly recommend it for folks who want to create a professional podcast project and want something that is reliable but not overly expensive.

Cons: I've had a couple instances where the audio came out muddled. In one, the gain was too high on my mic (which is my fault... but it still would have been nice to have some sort of warning from Riverside). In the other case, I thought the audio was recording well, but the wifi for my guest was poor and the audio came out scrambled. These challenges are very disappointing because booking time with a guest and recording an entire interview is a big ask for them, and if it goes wrong, asking to re-record is a big deal. These issues are rare, yet I think they're something Riverside could improve on.

Pros: I love that it makes recording, editing and clipping so much easier since its all in ONE place. It makes everything seamless and takes away the stress of having audio, video, etc fragmented. I love the A.I Features as well. I also love that it make interviewing guests so much easier and seamless.

Cons: I wish we had the option to do a cam link of several cameras at once. Then it would be perfect.That way we can shoot with several angles without a switcher

Pros: Everything, there ways of improving, and they come at with a team vibe atmosphere. Love the way Riverside helps you to bring the best in you projects and podcasts! So awesome

Cons: Nothing really. Just an overall great experience and just a fun atmosphere. With great software, with, making podcasts awesome!

Pros: Riverside is very user friendly in its ease of use to record and invite others to record. I record remotely with my friends and that is a major plus for me. Plus the editing features are very easy to use as well.

Cons: The cost of the plans is on the higher side. I pay for the $29/month plan and that’s pushing it in my opinion. Especially given that there’s still a ceiling on how much content I can record. $15/$20 per month would be more palatable. Regarding the actual software, the magic audio isn’t great. When I’ve used it, it would make awkward edits at the beginning and end of each time someone spoke making it sound clunky and even slightly cutting off the beginning and ending of sentences.

Pros: Riverside makes creating reels so quick. Using the made for you ai has cut down the time that it takes to create reels by 80%. A great feature!

Cons: I have had a hard time when I’m doing a live. Four or five times the Recording has just stopped within the first few minutes and I have to start it again, which is extremely awkward when doing a live.

Pros: Easy to use. Love using it for my pocast. It is nice to have all projects on one platform. There are a ton of options, great value for your money.

Cons: Nothing. It is great. I enjoy using the platform. I am not super savy but I am able to figure ut out pretty easily.

Pros: I love being able to record with guests and also edit in the same platform. The AI functionalities and tools make it so much faster to get my episodes out into the world. I also use it to edit other videos for my brand and I love that it's one tool I can use in many different ways.

Cons: It can be heavy and slow loading at times, especially with longer videos or when using the AI tools. I also don't like how the script editing functions at times, when I want to restore certain parts of the "made for you" edits, it feels clitchy and slow

Pros: I love the Magic AI feature- it is one of my favorites. I also love the sound quality is produces. I record from home and you would never be able to tell.

Cons: The support has been helpful but slow to resolution. I have had 2 issues so far and while they tried to help, it took many attempts, slow response and at the end, did not get resolved.

Pros: The deleting of words from video/audio is key. Basically their AI autocreates a transcript and then you can literally just delete the words and it deletes the audio/video. Very cool feature. I also like the magic segments that the AI autocreates for you which are generally so good that I don't look for anything else to grab people's attention on the socials.

Cons: I didn't push echo cancellation when recording one pod, and the AI tools weren't able to remove it in post. Was a painstaking process to remove all echos over a two hour pod, which seems like a simple job for AI. Also there's a special button to remove umms and ahhhs but its a little agressive and often eliminates laughter too :(

Pros: For me, it's the professional grade recording that Riverside allows us to do. We've used it for over three years now and have had over 50 guests and it has failed us only twice.

Cons: The cons have been the support team in the critical moments where we have lost footage or had to update our company email address due to a lost email account. That process was immensely hard to navigate and the time for someone to get back to us was sometimes days.

Pros: Easy to record, easy to edit. I'm a relatively new podcaster, and it's been an intuitive and easy-to-navigate platform / system. I appreciate that editing is so fast and easy!

Cons: I've had some recording issues and had to re-record two different podcast episodes. One of those was just me being new- my guest closed out the box at the end before hers had uploaded to 100% (giving her the little green check mark), and we lost a large portion of our interview, and then it overlapped me talking over her.

Pros: Riverside is intuitive and easy to use, with robust video editing features. Their support is second to none!

Cons: I wish it would run on browsers other than Chrome or Edge. I try to steer clear of those due to privacy concerns.

Pros: It's making podcast creation very user friendly as I build my first podcast. Customer support has been very responsive and it's been a great value thus far.

Cons: No cons as of yet. I've only tested the recording and not posted yet, but excited to see how user-friendly the posting process is moving forward.

Pros: Startup is easy. Editing features are fantastic. I can perform edits in a matter of minutes and post. Endless options and very intuitive. The AI is fantastic. The audio enhancing features are great.

Cons: While there are lots of updates, sometimes there are too many. When I go start up a recording, it will need to update. You have to plan for that.

Pros: Riverside made it easy for a beginner podcaster to create a show! There are tutorials and videos that got me started.

Cons: It is pretty costly to unlock all of the features. As a podcast that is not sponsored I am not able to take advantage of all features.

Pros: As a novice podcast producer, Riverside has been incredible for me. The editing features are so easy to use. Being able to click on a word or a sentence to edit it, is so simple.

Cons: I don't love the dub over feature when I want to correct a word. The volume gets messed up. If there was a way to adjust that specific word or inserted audio, that would be awesome. I would also like to be able to adjust when and how people appear (i.e. if you want to bring a guest in halfway through).

Pros: Ease of use, the ability to easily capture and edit video in 4k video is also a winning play. Connecting to podcast services is a plus.

Cons: I wish more of the capabilities were available at the lower price point but I get it. They are a business.

Pros: Riverside was the game changer I didn't know I needed! I accidentally fell into podcasting and was using Zoom, because it was a tool I knew about. Manual editing was tough, to say nothing of the creating the transcripts and clips for reels. I was so exhausted with the entire process, I almost quit.

Cons: Not to sound corny, but legit the only con is how EASY it is! I find myself creating and podcasting even more than I originally planned because it's just so easy to be an artist now.