Openside

Openside, at openside.pro, is an open-source, self-hostable recording studio for podcasts, interviews and calls. It presents itself as an alternative to Riverside and Loom, and it runs in the browser.

Recording happens locally in each person's browser and is saved in small chunks, so a bad connection doesn't lower the quality of what has already been captured. Chunks that couldn't be sent upload later. You get a mixed recording plus separate audio and video tracks for each participant. Video downloads as MP4 or WebM, and audio as MP3 or WAV.

A screen recorder covers demos, tutorials and updates. Each recording can have its own share link where people leave comments, and you can disable or replace that link. Recordings are private until you share them, and you can delete them.

Openside lists three plans. The Demo is free with no setup, limited to 720p, 15 minutes and 2 participants, with a watermark. Pro costs $8.99 a month on Openside's managed infrastructure, with up to 4K recording, 20 hours a month and up to 5 participants. Self-hosting carries no Openside fee when you bring your own LiveKit and Cloudflare R2 keys. Those keys are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and are never shown in full after you save them.

The code is MIT licensed at github.com. Besides bringing your own keys to the hosted app, you can deploy the whole app from the repository, which Openside says needs Node.js 20+, pnpm 10+, PostgreSQL, Redis, LiveKit, Cloudflare R2 and a Clerk app.

Pricing: Openside's pricing page lists three plans. Demo: free, no setup, 720p, 44.1kHz audio, 15 minutes of recording, up to 2 participants, 48-hour retention, with a watermark and no cloud backup. Pro: $8.99 a month on managed infrastructure, up to 4K, 48kHz audio, 20 hours a month, up to 5 participants, 30-day retention, cloud backup and no watermark. You can cancel anytime and keep Pro until the end of the billing period, and payments are processed by Polar. Self-host: no Openside fee with your own LiveKit and Cloudflare R2 keys, which you pay those providers for, with unlimited recording, participants and retention. Checked November 15, 2026 at https://openside.pro/pricing.