🎧 Bloom Meeting
The Riverside replacement you buy once.
Bloom Meeting at a glance
| Price | $49, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Riverside at $15–29/mo — roughly $288 a year, every year |
| Type | Desktop app — runs offline |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Category | Video & Audio |
Bloom Meeting features
🔗 Guests join from a browser link
Create a meeting and send one link — up to 4 guests plus the host, nothing to install on their end.
🎙️ Everyone records locally
The live call is only for conversation. Each participant records in studio quality on their own machine — 8 Mbps VP9 video plus separate lossless-leaning Opus audio — so a bad connection never ruins the take.
🎚️ Per-person synced tracks
Server-stamped start times and per-recorder clock offsets land in the take folder, so every track lines up on a timeline in post.
📦 Tracks collect automatically
Guest recordings chunk-upload to the relay during the call; ending the meeting gathers every participant's files into one auto-titled take folder.
📡 Go Live — RTMP streaming
Broadcast the composited meeting grid (speaker labels, solo/split/grid layouts) to Twitch or any RTMP server while you record.
🪄 Dynamic Edit — auto-cut episodes
Local Whisper transcribes each participant, then auto-cuts the episode — full-screen on the active speaker, split view on crosstalk — with per-segment manual override and a 1080p ffmpeg render.
💬 AI captions, fully local
Whisper runs on your machine — no cloud credits, no upload. Captions burn in with drag-to-position placement.
✂️ Full editing toolkit built in
Silence removal, Descript-style transcript editing, viral-reel auto-cuts and vertical 9:16 exports — the whole BloomRecorder toolkit ships inside.
$49 once — that's the whole pricing page
Riverside charges $15–29/mo — roughly $288 a year, every year. Bloom Meeting is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Bloom Meeting inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Bloom Meeting guides & pages
Honest answers
Do my guests have to install anything?
No. Guests open a browser link — up to 4 guests plus the host. Only the host runs the desktop app.
What happens if the connection is bad during the call?
Nothing, to the recording. The live call only carries the conversation — each participant records locally on their own machine, so the tracks are studio quality even if the call stutters.
How do I get my guests' recordings?
They upload in chunks to the relay server during the call. When you end the meeting, every participant's tracks collect into one take folder with per-recorder sync offsets, ready to line up in post.