What do creators use to make podcasts?
Riverside is the most-adopted tool for this among creators we track, used by 6 creators (67% of its mentions organic). This ranking counts real, receipt-backed creator usage — no editorial opinion, no paid placement.
Spans: 2 categories · ranked by active tracked creators
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- 1RiversidePodcasting
Browser-based remote recording studio that captures local, uncompressed audio and up-to-4K video per participant, then uploads progressively. Includes AI transcription, clips and text-based editing; standard kit for remote podcasts and interview shows.
6 active creators · 37 mentions · 67% organic · Free tier; paid from ~$15/month
“Riverside makes it super easy for beginner creators to record, edit and publish” — Mike Russellsource ↗
- 2TwitchScreen Recording & Live Production
Live streaming platform with chat, subscriptions and tipping, strongest in gaming.
4 active creators · 16 mentions · 100% organic
“I Stream on Twitch” — ThePrimeTimesource ↗
- 3OBS StudioScreen Recording & Live Production
Free, open-source software for video recording and live streaming on Windows, macOS and Linux. Scene composition, sources, filters and plugins make it the default streaming tool for gaming, education and creator broadcasts.
4 active creators · 10 mentions · 100% organic · Free and open source (GPL)
“Today we are covering placement, levelling your audio, and most importantly how to add filters to your microphone inside” — Stream Schemesource ↗
- 4Ecamm LivePodcasting
Mac-native live streaming and video production studio: scenes, overlays, multi-camera switching, guest interviews and local recording. Used for live shows, video podcasts and webinars without a hardware switcher.
1 active creators · 1 mentions · 100% organic · From ~$20/month after free trial
- 5Screen StudioScreen Recording & Live Production
macOS screen recorder that automatically produces polished demo videos: smooth zoom-ins on clicks, cursor motion smoothing, device frames and quick exports for social. Popular with indie developers and product marketers for product demos.
0 active creators · 0 mentions · – organic · ~$89 one-time license with 1 year of updates
- 6LoomScreen Recording & Live Production
Async video messaging: record screen, camera and mic in one click, get an instantly shareable link with viewer insights, transcripts and AI summaries. Acquired by Atlassian in 2023; standard for async team communication and quick tutorials.
0 active creators · 0 mentions · – organic · Free up to 25 videos; Business from ~$15/user/month
FAQ
- What tool do most creators use to start a podcast?
- Riverside is the most-adopted tool for this job among the creators we track: 6 tracked creators have an active usage record for it. 67% of its classified mentions are organic, meaning no sponsorship signal was found in them (mentions we cannot classify are excluded from that ratio). Adoption counts, not editorial opinion, order this list, and the receipts behind it are linked above.
- What is the runner-up to Riverside, and when is it the better choice?
- Twitch ranks second with 4 active creators, against 6 for Riverside. The honest differentiation our data supports: Twitch sits in Screen Recording & Live Production, Riverside in Podcasting, so choose by which part of the job you actually spend time in. Where a creator has explained the choice on the record, the quote appears in the list above with a source link.
- How is this ranking decided?
- By counting creators, not opinions. Every mention we ingest carries a receipt: a source link, a timestamp or position, a verbatim quote of at most 120 characters, and a sponsorship classification (organic, sponsored or ambiguous). The list orders tools by how many tracked creators actively use each one; organic mentions weigh four times more than sponsored ones in scoring. Affiliate links on this page have no path into that computation. Full detail is on the methodology page.
- How fresh is this data?
- The scores behind this ranking are snapshotted weekly, and the data behind the current list was computed on 31 Jul 2026, the same date the stamp at the bottom of this page shows. After a recompute, the page refreshes within roughly ten to twenty minutes (two stacked 600-second caches). Recency also shapes the ranking itself: mention weight decays with a 14-day half-life, so current usage counts more than last year's.
- Are these affiliate recommendations?
- No. Some links on this page, marked with an arrow, are affiliate links, and if you buy through them we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That revenue has no path into the ranking: positions, trending scores and sponsorship labels are computed exclusively from creator-mention data. The full disclosure, in FTC wording and the German paragraph 5a UWG wording, sits on this page above the list.
- Where do these creator mentions come from?
- From public content by the creators we track: YouTube videos, podcast episodes, X posts and newsletters. When a tracked creator mentions a tool there, we ingest the mention together with its receipt: a source link, a timestamp or position, a quote of at most 120 characters, and a sponsorship classification. Rankings are computed exclusively from that mention data; money never changes them.