AICO vs Timebolt

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.

Timebolt is a desktop video editor built around waveform-first jump cuts for podcasts, interviews, and screen recordings. It strips silence, filler words, and bad takes with 0.01 second cut control, then exports timelines to Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Camtasia without re-cutting by hand.

Most text-based AI editors guess where pauses live and leave hundreds of missed cuts per hour. Timebolt measures the audio waveform first, which is why its benchmark claims zero mistakes left per hour while rivals like Descript and Gling still need manual cleanup. That trade-off favors editors who want frame-tight cuts over a chat-style transcript workflow.

Podcasters, YouTubers, and course creators use Timebolt to shrink raw talking-head footage before publishing. Post-production teams also route Riverside multicam sessions through Timebolt XML exports so senior editors finish polish work in their preferred NLE.