Streaming & Content Creation

I put Riverside's mobile app to the test for live streaming and recording over the past three weeks, and it's been a mix of genuinely impressive and genuinely frustrating. The app makes it fast and easy to start recording or go live, and the recording quality has held up well every time. The biggest issue is that you can't see audience stream chat from the mobile app or camera view while live, only guest and host chat, which makes real-time interaction with viewers tough. There's also an ongoing snag connecting podcast hosting to Apple Podcasts and YouTube, with support moving slowly. On top of that, the dashboard only works well in Chrome or Edge, and the AI tools were h…

I've been using Riverside on and off for a while now, so I finally sat down and broke down what it actually does, what it costs, and whether it's worth the money. I go through Riverside's full pricing breakdown across four tiers, from the $29 Pro plan up to the roughly $400 Business tier, and what you actually get at each level. I dig into the recording, text-based editing, live streaming, hosting, and newsletter features, including where the AI tools (show notes, titles, thumbnails) fall short. I'm currently 30-plus days into a paid trial, testing it against my real workflow, and I get into both what's worked well and what's still rough around the edges. Read the full ar…

Meld Studio just dropped an AI-powered tool that lets streamers build custom overlays and alerts from a text prompt. The reaction from the streaming community has been... complicated. Spark runs on Google Gemini and lets you describe what you want, chat overlays, alerts, and lower thirds, and it builds them for you. That's a big deal for streamers who previously had to either buy pre-made assets or know enough code to build their own. The backlash has been real, though, and it's understandable. Artists and designers who build stream assets for a living are now competing with a text box. Meld put out a transparency report addressing the concerns directly, which is worth re…