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Audacity

Riverside

Overview

Audacity is an open-source and on-premise audio editing software designed to help musicians manipulate soundtracks using keyboard shortcuts, analyze sound frequencies, and export, edit or import audio files in various formats on a unified platform.

Riverside (formerly Riverside.fm) is the all-in-one platform for recording, live streaming, editing, repurposing, and publishing studio-quality videos and podcasts. Creators and businesses use it to produce broadcast-quality content without the production maze of multiple tools.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

Free

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

469

293

130

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

81%

would recommend this app

4.8

313

270

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

92%

would recommend this app

Pros

“What I like is it does allow you to pinpoint exactly where you want to edit certain things without having to constantly stop and play to find where you want to edit.”

Carly G.

Curriculum designer and trainer

“The audio editing tools are incredible and produce high quality, professional recordings.”

Anne H.

Senior Learning Designer and Developer

“The amount of tools available for free to help any creator edit quality audio with so much ease of use”

Jeremy H.

Host and Owner

Pros

“I love the Ai features where I can create short clips and remove filler words!I also love how it also give me suggested clips to post on social media, show notes and a script for when I'm recording.”

Eryn L.

Owner and Creator

“I use this service for my weekly webinars, my workshops, my masterminds with clients and this service works phenomenally for all uses.”

Jennifer B.

Consultant

“You get all the different magic studio features that are just insurmountable and I'm even waiting for my show to grow in a way to where we can utilize the feature where someone is just in there and is actually just playing the producer role controlling the camera, switching the media doing that sort of thing.”

Donovan H.

Owner

Cons

“There is SOME help documentation, but I found that I rely more on 3rd party tutorials than within the existing help documentation (which is sometimes out of date) or Audacity-focused forums.”

Shaun D.

Producer

“The vocal isolation tools are limited, and there is no included media library.”

Peter R.

Program Director

“It has all the bells and whistles that you see in other programs that cost a lot of money.”

James G.

Associate Pastor

Cons

“The main issue I experienced was that today’s recording became a little choppy in the middle of an episode, which interrupted the flow of the conversation. While the platform has generally worked well for me overall, moments like that can be frustrating when you’re trying to maintain a natural discussion or record professional-quality content.”

Warda b.

Marketing Manager

“While on a live stream, every time someone leaves a new comment in the public chat, it resets all the way to the bottom. If you’re trying to show comments on the screen during the live stream, this can be very annoying.”

Eric C.

Lead Investigator

“I am using iphones and i do not have the ability to zoom my video recording also maybe i a beginner i found the web based editing to be extremely hard”

Zeeshan S.

Engineering leader