What each week held
Withheld: something was read in 1 week of the last 12. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
What it declares
- Studio-quality local recording (up to 4K/48kHz)
- Separate audio/video tracks per participant
- AI-powered editing (Magic/Co-Creator editor)
- Multi-platform clip generation for social
- Live streaming/multistreaming
- Podcast hosting and publishing
- In-person multicam recording
- AI transcription and captions
As the company’s own pages describe it. Forge did not test any of these.
What users raised
The reading listed none.
Everything on record
4 observed claims. Newest first; the tag on each row is what kind of claim you are reading.
- PRICINGCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Third-party pricing trackers report materially different current price points for Riverside's paid tiers (entry paid tier cited anywhere from $12-19/mo annual, and top self-serve tiers from $34-99/mo), with plan names also varying (Standard/Pro/Starter vs. Pro/Grow/Webinar) across sources checked between April and August 2026.
Indicates pricing/packaging may have changed or been restructured (new plan names 'Grow' and 'Webinar' appearing alongside older 'Standard/Pro/Business' naming) during 2026, but the exact current structure could not be confirmed from the live pricing page directly; flagged for follow-up verification.
riverside.com/pricing - PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Riverside's product-updates page (riverside.com/university/product-updates) lists a steady cadence of feature rollouts through mid-to-late 2026, including in-person recording with multiple cameras/mics (July 13), auto-crop of speaker tiles (Aug 26), private podcast hosting (Aug 6), faster/more reliable live streaming (Aug 10), deeper podcast analytics and per-platform publishing status (Aug 4), a new async recording flow (Aug 10), custom shadows for speaker tiles (Jul 15), and direct publishing of video podcasts to Apple Podcasts (Jul 9).
Shows incremental feature expansion in Riverside's own product area (recording, editing, distribution) since the 2.0 launch; individually most are minor but collectively support the platform-expansion narrative.
riverside.com/university/product-updates - PRODUCTCOMPANY CLAIMSep 30, 2026
Riverside's own blog frames this release as making it 'the first platform in the world to take you across the entire creative workflow: record, edit, publish, and now distribute, all in one place,' calling it the biggest wave of releases in company history.
This is the vendor's positioning claim for competitive messaging, not independently verified functionality claims.
riverside.com/blog/riverside-2-0 - PRODUCTFACTSep 30, 2026
Riverside launched 'Riverside 2.0' in late June/July 2026, described by the company as the biggest release in its history, adding a rebuilt recording studio and AI editor, automatic social scheduling/publishing, motion graphics in the video editor, in-person multicam recording via the Mac app, newsletter publishing, and an upcoming MCP integration to connect AI assistants like Claude or ChatGPT.
Establishes Riverside's current positioning as a full record-edit-publish-distribute platform rather than just a remote recording tool, relevant to feature-parity comparisons.
podnews.net/update/riverside-2
A record of what Forge read in public about Riverside — its own pages and what people wrote about it. Nothing here is a test of the product, a ranking or a score, and Forge has no relationship with this company.