# Openside launches an open-source alternative to Riverside and Loom

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[Openside](<https://openside.pro/>) [launched](<https://x.com/damnGruz/status/2121629984947319182>) as an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Riverside and Loom for recording podcasts, interviews and calls in the browser.

Recording happens locally in each person's browser, so a bad connection doesn't lower the quality of what's already captured. The chunks upload later. You get a mixed recording plus separate audio and video tracks for each participant, with video as MP4 or WebM and audio as MP3 or WAV. There's also a screen recorder for demos. Each recording gets a share link that people can comment on, and you can disable or replace the link. Recordings stay private until you share them, and you can delete them.

Openside lists [three plans](<https://openside.pro/pricing>). The Demo is free with no setup: 720p, 15 minutes of recording, up to 2 participants, 48-hour retention and a watermark. Pro is $8.99 a month on Openside's managed infrastructure, with up to 4K, 20 hours a month, up to 5 participants, 30-day retention, cloud backup and no watermark. Self-hosting has no Openside fee when you [bring your own LiveKit and Cloudflare R2 keys](<https://openside.pro/open-source>). You pay those providers directly, and recording time, participants and retention are unlimited.

The code is MIT licensed [on GitHub](<https://github.com/rinkitadhana/openside>).

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