AICO vs Riverside

AICO is no longer available as an active product. ReturnZero ended the service on April 1, 2026, and aico.tv now shows a sunset notice instead of a working editor. The closure page is published in English, Korean, and Japanese.

ReturnZero says AICO provided meaningful value to users and will close the service responsibly. Personal information and usage data will be deleted after the end date under applicable laws, except records that must be kept for legal retention periods.

The notice also states that ReturnZero will keep building voice AI technology outside AICO. Former users with account or data questions can email [email protected] on weekdays from 10:00 to 18:00.

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.