Riverside is where you record the podcast. Podcli is where you clip it. The overlap is Riverside's Magic Clips feature, and that's the part Podcli does better, free, and locally.
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Riverside solves remote recording: multi-track, local capture per guest, lossless upload. That's a hard problem and Riverside is good at it. Podcli doesn't try to compete with that.
The overlap is Magic Clips, Riverside's clipping feature. It exists, it works, but the control surface is narrow: you take what Riverside's templates and ranker give you. Podcli's pitch is the same job done with editable captions, scored against your own knowledge base, runnable from the CLI or an AI agent, with no quota.
The most common shape: record on Riverside, download the final mix, hand it to Podcli for the shorts pass. You keep Riverside's recording quality and drop the clipping subscription tier you didn't need.
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No. Podcli is a clipping pipeline, not a recording tool. Use Riverside, Zoom, or any DAW for capture, then hand the file to Podcli.
Yes, in scope. Magic Clips picks moments from a Riverside recording and crops them. Podcli does the same job (picks moments, crops to 9:16, burns captions) for any video source, free and locally.
Yes. Export the final video from Riverside in any common format (MP4, MOV) and Podcli will transcribe, score, crop, and caption it.
The setup script handles the toolchain. You'll have a clip out the other side in a few minutes.