Riverside
Riverside: Studio-quality remote recording for podcasts and video. Skip the sign-up: WhipScribe transcribes it in your browser. Packs: $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000, $32 for 6,000; Workspace $19 a month. Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Measured turnaround: about 2 minutes per audio hour. 99 languages. Checked 2 Nov 2026.
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Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes. Credits never expire.
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Best for podcast producers and content creators who want studio-quality remote recordings. Pricing: free / from $19/mo.
What it is
Riverside is a remote-recording platform for podcasts and video shows. The product records each participant locally at studio quality (up to 4K video, uncompressed audio) and uploads the local files after the session for editing — avoiding the compression artifacts that mar live-broadcast captures. Riverside includes AI transcription, AI clip detection, magic editor (text-based editing similar to Descript), and AI-generated show notes. The product is widely used by podcast networks and content creators. Pricing is straightforward monthly tiers. Pricing and product details listed here were last reviewed by Neugence on 2026-05-12; check the vendor site for current values before quoting.
Watch out for: Recording-and-production focus; not a meeting bot.
Install / use
riverside.fm — Free, Standard $19/mo, Pro $29/mo, Business $49/mo, Enterprise contact
What people actually do with Riverside-style transcription
The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.
Features
| Speaker diarization | No |
| Word-level timestamps | No |
| Streaming / real-time | No |
| Languages supported | None |
| HIPAA eligible | No |
Riverside vs Whipscribe
| Feature | Riverside | Whipscribe |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Products | Transcription APIs |
| Pricing | Not verified | $4–$32 one-time packs (credits never expire) · free preview of the opening minutes |
| Speaker identification | Not verified | Named in the summary, key quotes and chapters |
| Word timestamps | Not verified | Yes |
| Streaming | Not verified | No |
| Languages | — | 99 |
| Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web, API, MCP |
Alternatives to Riverside
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Frequently asked about Riverside
Is Riverside free?
Partly. Riverside has a free tier with paid plans above it — published pricing: free / from $19/mo. Free-tier limits change more often than this page does; verify on the vendor's pricing page.
Does Riverside work on Mac, Windows and Linux?
Riverside runs on Web, iOS and Android.
How do I get started with Riverside?
There is nothing to install — Riverside is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.
What are the limitations of Riverside?
Recording-and-production focus; not a meeting bot.
Who is Riverside best for?
Podcast producers and content creators who want studio-quality remote recordings.
Is Riverside open source?
No. Riverside is a proprietary product from Riverside.fm Inc.. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.
Who makes Riverside?
Riverside is made by Riverside.fm Inc..
What kind of tool is Riverside?
In this directory Riverside is filed under meetings, podcast, recording as a product.
Can I automate Riverside-style transcription without running it myself?
Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.0133 a minute — about $0.80 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.
How is Whipscribe different from Riverside?
Riverside is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes, and a pack from $4 (300 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.
What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Riverside?
$0.0133 a minute — about $0.80 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.40, a thousand-hour archive is about $800 once. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes, and a pack from $4 (300 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.
Where is the Riverside category heading?
Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.
Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.
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