Works on any recording
Paste a link or upload a file, up to 3 hours long, whatever you recorded it with. Klap works on any content where there's speech: podcasts, interviews, webinars and more.
8.5M clips made by 3.5M creators
The best Riverside alternative for AI powered short video creation
Last updated November 4, 2026 · Riverside prices and features checked on its own pages
Klap is an AI tool like Riverside that turns long videos into ready-to-post vertical shorts, on plans that count clips, not source minutes.
Try Klap free on 1 video. No credit card required.
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In short: Klap is built for the clips: it takes a recording from anywhere, scores every clip, frames it on the active speaker and schedules it. Riverside is a recording studio with Magic Clips as one feature, and its social scheduling starts on the $34/month Grow plan (Riverside pricing as of November 4, 2026).
Klap finds the moments worth posting
8.5M clips made by 3.5M creators
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Comparing Klap vs. Riverside
Klap | Riverside | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Turning long videos into clips | Recording, with clips as a feature |
| Schedule to Socials | Every paid plan | From Grow ($34/mo) |
| AI Virality Score | Every clip | Not listed |
| Prompt-based Clipping | Yes | Keywords and focus speaker |
| Post Analytics | Yes | Not listed |
| API | Self-serve, pay per use | Not listed |
| MCP Server | Yes | From Grow |
| Export Quality | Up to 4K | Up to 4K from Pro |
| Active Speaker Reframing | Yes | Yes |
| Animated Captions | Yes | Yes |
| Free option | Free trial: 1 video, no card | Free plan: 720p, watermark |
| Pricing | From $14.50/mo (100 clips) | Pro from $24/mo billed yearly |
Klap: current plans. Riverside: checked on its own pages on November 4, 2026.
Riverside sources: pricing, Magic Clips
Why people choose Klap over Riverside
The checkable reasons podcasters add or switch to Klap for their clips.
Scheduling on every paid plan
Riverside's social media scheduling starts on its $34/month Grow plan. Klap schedules to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook on every paid plan, and can publish automatically.
A virality score on every clip
Every Klap clip gets a virality score, so you know which to post first. Riverside's pricing and Magic Clips pages don't list one.
Tell it what to pull
Write a prompt such as "every moment the guest talks about pricing" and Klap makes clips around that theme.
Plans that count clips
Klap Basic is $14.50/month billed yearly ($29 month to month) for 100 clips a month. You pay for clips, not a recording studio.
An API priced per use
Klap's API is self-serve at $0.44 per input video, $0.32 per short and $0.48 per export, so a podcast network can clip every episode automatically.
What our users say about Klap
Elise H.
Marketing Director
View review on Capterra"Best AI tool for turning a Youtube video into Reels & TikToks"
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Edward L.
Social Media Marketer
View review on Trustpilot"I've been using Klap since Friday. I also created my TikTok the same day. I have a couple of videos with a few thousand views and one that's over 70k views, my TikTok has 110 followers already, and 1650 likes!!! It's only been 4 days"
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Marie S.
Designer
View review on G2"Helped me with my Social Media Marketing. Coming from a real estate business, we are upping up our social media game. I been using klap to help me out with the video edits. Easy to use!"
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Micode
Tech YouTuber
Watch review on YouTube"I am very impressed by the results. It selected exactly the right moments."
Save hours using AI
Never spend hours editing your videos again. Klap uses AI to automatically create engaging clips from your content.
AI Editing
AI extracts the best topics from your long video and automatically edits them into many viral-worthy clips.
Auto Reframing
Automatically reframe your video clips to always focus on the most important subject.
Engaging Captions
Keep your followers engaged with beautifully designed subtitles and recommended captions to help it go viral.
Customization
Fully customize everything to fit the unique needs of your brand: like fonts, colors, logos, and framing.
Publish & Schedule
Directly share your new video clips on your social media channels (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook) and schedule them in to fit your content strategy and ultimately grow your followers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Riverside free?
Riverside has a free plan: 2 hours of multi-track recording, up to 720p, with a Riverside watermark and Magic Clips included. Pro is $288 a year ($24/month), with no watermark and up to 4K, and Grow is $408 a year ($34/month), which adds social media scheduling (Riverside pricing as of November 4, 2026). You can try Klap free on 1 video with no credit card: create a free account and Klap turns that video into clips you can preview and edit.
Is Riverside's Magic Clips good enough for clipping my video podcast?
If the job is getting clips out of a podcast and onto social every week, Klap is built for that: it reads the whole episode, up to 3 hours, gives every clip a virality score, reframes on the active speaker, adds animated captions and schedules to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. Klap Basic is $14.50/month billed yearly ($29 month to month) for 100 clips a month. Magic Clips is one feature of Riverside's recording studio, and its social scheduling starts on the Grow plan (Riverside pricing as of November 4, 2026).
What's the best alternative to Riverside for clips?
For clipping, Klap: paste a link or upload your recording, whatever you recorded it with, and it makes ready-to-post vertical shorts. Our alternatives page compares it with OpusClip, Descript, Vizard and others.
What is Klap?
Klap is an AI video clipping tool that turns long videos into ready-to-post vertical shorts. Plans count clips, not source minutes. Every clip gets a virality score, active-speaker reframing and animated captions, and Klap schedules to TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook. It works in 99+ languages and has a self-serve API and an MCP server.
What kind of videos does Klap work on?
Klap works on any content where there's speech: podcasts, interviews, webinars, gaming and sports commentary, tutorials and more.
What languages does Klap support?
Klap works in 99+ languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hindi.
Is Klap free?
You can try Klap free on 1 video with no credit card: create a free account and Klap turns that video into clips you can preview and edit. Downloading and posting clips needs a paid plan. Paid exports carry no Klap branding. Paid plans: Basic is $14.50/month for 100 clips a month, Pro $39.50/month for 300 clips and Pro+ $94.50/month for 1,000 clips, all billed yearly ($29, $79 and $189 month to month).