Clipea (formerly 10LevelUp) vs Riverside

Clipea turns long-form videos into short clips built for social media. Upload a file or paste a YouTube link, and the tool finds the most engaging moments, adds captions, reframes for different aspect ratios, and prepares clips you can publish to TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, and other channels.

Simon and Fabian built Clipea after running Germany's largest non-fiction book podcast, Schwarz auf Weiß. When audience growth stalled in 2023, they wanted a faster way to repurpose hour-long podcast and YouTube videos into shorts, reels, and posts without spending 5 to 10 hours a week on manual editing.

The platform handles speaker tracking, layout switching between single and multi-speaker frames, and content-aware cropping so clips look native on each platform. Clipea also supports auto-posting, which publishes selected clips to your connected social accounts.

Podcasters, YouTube creators, and social media managers who already produce long videos but need a steady stream of short-form content are the primary audience. The product is engineered in Miami and supports more than 100 languages for native subtitles.

Riverside is a video editing and recording platform built for remote podcasts, interviews, and webinars. It records up to 4K video and uncompressed audio locally on each participant's device, so spotty internet does not tank quality. After recording, you edit in a text-based timeline, generate Magic Clips, captions, and show notes, then publish to YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts from the same workflow.

Zoom and Google Meet optimize for live calls, not post-production. Riverside records separate tracks locally, then layers AI cleanup, filler-word removal, and clip generation on top. The trade-off is that it is built for creators who publish regularly, not for one-off internal meetings that never leave the call app.

Podcasters, marketers, and producers at companies like Spotify and The New York Times use Riverside for studio-style remote recordings. Founded in 2020 by brothers Gideon and Nadav, the product now lives at riverside.com while riverside.fm redirects to the same experience.