# Alternatives to Riverside

> Source: https://dubsheet.com/riverside/alternatives/ (re-verified)
> Updated: 31 October 2026

## At a glance

| Name | Best for | Starts at | Better than Riverside at | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Riverside](https://dubsheet.com/riverside.md) | Podcasters and video teams producing interview-led content | Free, then $9.99 a month | — | 30 October 2026 |
| [Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet.md) | Course makers and video teams creating multilingual narration from scripts or slides | Free, then $6 per 30 minutes | Past your allowance, Languages | 29 October 2026 |
| [HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen.md) | Creators and teams localizing video into many languages without reshooting | Free, then $29 a month | Languages, Re-voice your recording | 26 October 2026 |
| [Akool](https://dubsheet.com/akool.md) | Marketing teams localizing brand video into many languages from one workspace | Free, then $12 a seat a month | Languages, Re-voice your recording | 27 October 2026 |
| [Murf AI](https://dubsheet.com/murf.md) | Individuals and freelancers creating voiceovers | From $29 a month | Languages, Re-voice your recording | 29 October 2026 |
| [Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker.md) | Content creators and e-learning teams making multilingual voice-overs on a small budget | Free, then $5 a month | Languages, Re-voice your recording | 26 October 2026 |
| [Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma.md) | Creators who need free multilingual voice-over within per-conversion limits | Free, then $9 a month | Languages, Re-voice your recording | 30 October 2026 |
| [TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai.md) | Creators making multilingual voice-overs, dubbing and music for social video | From $35.99 a month | Languages, Re-voice your recording | 27 October 2026 |
| [Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio.md) | Creators narrating videos, audiobooks and character voices from their own cloned voice | Free, then $15 a month | Languages, Re-voice your recording | 26 October 2026 |
| [Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast.md) | Creators and teams making narrated video, courses and podcasts in their own voice | Free, then $5 a month | Languages, Your voice trains their models | 26 October 2026 |

The ones people open most here come first, then the closest matches.

## Shortlist

### 1. Narakeet

Duration-priced browser voice-over and narrated-video maker with non-expiring capacity.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Past your allowance: yes — Additional capacity is sold as non-recurring top-up credit; the stated 30-minute pack costs twenty cents per minute.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Languages: yes — Narakeet publishes 112 languages and regional accents, with language groups and individual accent variants listed.](https://www.narakeet.com/languages/)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — The vendor limits itself to storing and processing your uploads on your instructions and claims no other rights, and source files are deleted after 30 days.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/data-security/)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — Narakeet describes its public capacity purchase as a one-time payment, not a promotion or recurring subscription.](https://www.narakeet.com/docs/pricing/)
- [Lip sync: no — Its documented voice-over dubbing leaves the original visuals unchanged while replacing the audio track.](https://www.narakeet.com/create/ai-dubbing.html)
- [Publishes to YouTube: partial — It produces an alternate-language track for YouTube's multi-audio feature, but the documented workflow has you upload that track yourself; no connected publishing is described.](https://www.narakeet.com/create/ai-dubbing.html)

[View Narakeet](https://dubsheet.com/narakeet)

### 2. HeyGen

AI avatar video, voice cloning and video translation into 175+ languages with lip sync.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — Paid plans cover 175 languages and dialects while Free is held to 30-plus, and the help center lists the regional accents behind that, such as fourteen English variants.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)
- [Re-voice your recording: yes — You can record a line yourself and get it back in another voice with your own performance preserved: the vendor says the output keeps your emotion, emphasis, cadence, timing and pacing and runs the same length as your recording, available in the app, as Voice Mirroring inside Studio, and through the API.](https://www.heygen.com/models/heygen-voice-1)
- [Your voice trains their models: partial — Non-enterprise customer data may be used to train HeyGen's models with an opt-out published in the privacy policy, enterprise data is excluded, and the vendor says voice data never trains shared AI voices.](https://www.heygen.com/trust-and-safety)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none. The price shown first is the plain month-to-month rate: each plan card opens with its Monthly control selected at $29, $49 and $149, and only switching the card's own control to Yearly drops Creator to $24 a month billed as $288 for the year, advertised as two months free rather than as an introductory discount.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)
- [Audio you get: partial — You can download just the audio or the captions SRT beside the video, and MP3 or MP4 from the podcast and cloning flows; audio-only export of a translation is Enterprise-only, and no bitrate is published for app exports.](https://help.heygen.com/en/articles/9834825-how-to-download-or-export-a-video)
- [Works inside: partial — Canva and Adobe Express imports are documented in the help center, and n8n, Make, HubSpot and Zapier are listed on Business; those automation routes need API credits rather than plan credits.](https://www.heygen.com/pricing)

[View HeyGen](https://dubsheet.com/heygen)

### 3. Akool

AI video suite with video translation, lip sync, text to speech, voice cloning and a voice changer.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — Akool claims speech synthesis in 175+ languages with 900+ neural voices, and the plan table gives video translation 155+ languages on every tier; individual accents are not enumerated.](https://www.akool.com/apps/voice-lab?type=text-to-speech)
- [Re-voice your recording: yes — A Voice Changer tool takes a recording you upload and returns it in another voice, and the comparison table marks it unlimited on every paid plan while the Free plan has no access.](https://www.akool.com/apps/voice-lab?type=text-to-speech)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — The Terms of Service rule out training on customer material outright, so there is nothing to opt out of; the content policy repeats the guarantee for uploaded and generated content.](https://www.akool.com/terms-of-service)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Several speakers: partial — Video Translation detects multiple speakers in an uploaded video so each gets its own translated voice, but no page read describes assigning several voices inside one text to speech script.](https://www.akool.com/apps/video-translation)
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: partial — Akool requires that you be authorized to use any voice or likeness you upload and bans harmful impersonation, but documents no verification step or consent proof before a clone is trained.](https://help.akool.com/trust-and-safety)
- [Captions and subtitles: partial — Captions and subtitles are marked on every plan, but downloading them as SRT or ASS files is restricted to Pro Max and above, so lower tiers get burned-in subtitles only.](https://www.akool.com/pricing)

[View Akool](https://dubsheet.com/akool)

### 4. Murf AI

Voice-over Studio with timeline video syncing, downloadable audio, dubbing, and a public API.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — Studio documents voices in 40+ languages with accents for English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Dutch.](https://help.murf.ai/languages-and-accents)
- [Re-voice your recording: yes — The Voice Changer API transforms an existing recording into another voice while preserving timing, pacing, and emotion.](https://help.murf.ai/api-features)
- [Your voice trains their models: partial — The Enterprise Studio card promises no training on customer data; public pages do not describe a general opt-out setting.](https://murf.ai/pricing)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: partial — Enterprise cloning rules require ownership or clear documented consent for the voice submitted to Murf.](https://help.murf.ai/are-there-any-specifications-for-recording-the-voice-data)
- [Lip sync: no — Murf labels its lip-sync feature Coming Soon on the dubbing page, even though the same page elsewhere claims accurate lip-syncing.](https://murf.ai/ai-dubbing)
- [Free plan or trial: partial — Every first-time Studio signup receives a free trial with ten minutes for testing voices and premium features.](https://help.murf.ai/is-murf-free-to-use)

[View Murf AI](https://dubsheet.com/murf)

### 5. Voicemaker

Credit-metered AI text-to-speech studio with 2,000+ voices, voice cloning, speech-to-speech and SRT export.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — The vendor claims 140+ languages including regional English, Spanish and many Indian languages, with named accents such as UK, Australian and Indian English.](https://voicemaker.in/faq)
- [Re-voice your recording: yes — Yes - you record or upload your own line and get it back in another voice with your tone kept, included from the Starter plan.](https://voicemaker.in/)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — Voicemaker says it does not train its general voice models on your text, audio or training recordings unless you give separate explicit research consent.](https://voicemaker.in/terms)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none — Starter is shown as a monthly subscription, while annual billing is displayed separately.](https://voicemaker.in/pricing)
- [What the free plan leaves on your audio: partial — Free output carries no stated watermark or credit line, but it may be used only personally: commercial use starts on the paid plans.](https://voicemaker.in/terms)

[View Voicemaker](https://dubsheet.com/voicemaker)

### 6. Speechma

Free text to speech and creator audio tools with no account or credit card.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — The library covers more than 75 languages and locales, including American, British, Australian, Canadian, Irish, and Indian English.](https://speechma.com/text-to-speech)
- [Re-voice your recording: yes — The voice changer takes a recorded file and target sample, retaining source words and pacing while changing its voice.](https://speechma.com/voice-changer)
- [Your voice trains their models: no — Your recordings are processed only to make the result you asked for, are not kept after processing, and infrastructure partners may not use them for their own purposes.](https://speechma.com/privacy)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Promotion and regular price: no — none: the free price is permanent rather than an introductory rate, and the vendor states there is no trial and no card involved at all.](https://speechma.com/)
- [Lip sync: no — The dubbed-video tool replaces speech in another language but explicitly leaves the speaker’s lip movements unchanged.](https://speechma.com/ai-dubbing)
- [Team seats: no — There is nothing to share: the free site has no accounts at all, so no shared workspace, seat pricing or per-seat collaboration exists.](https://speechma.com/faq)

[View Speechma](https://dubsheet.com/speechma)

### 7. TopMediai

AI studio for text to speech, voice cloning and video dubbing on one shared credit balance.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — Speech coverage is broad and the vendor names the accent variants it supports, including three English accents plus three Chinese variants.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/text-to-speech/)
- [Re-voice your recording: yes — A dedicated Speech to Speech tool takes an uploaded or recorded take and swaps the voice while keeping your delivery, with stability and similarity sliders.](https://www.topmediai.com/app/speech-to-speech/)
- [Video dubbing: yes — Uploading a video or a link and picking a target language returns dubbed audio that the vendor says keeps the original speaker's vocal character.](https://www.topmediai.com/ai-dubbing/)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Consent of the voice’s owner: partial — The terms make you warrant that the voice owner authorized the clone, but describe no verification step or proof the vendor collects before cloning.](https://www.topmediai.com/terms-conditions/)
- [Works inside: partial — Integration is through an MCP server rather than plugins: the vendor names Cursor and Codex as the supported clients and documents no design or video-editor plugin.](https://www.topmediai.com/mcp/)
- [Who owns the audio: partial — The terms hand you ownership of generated works and of any voice model you train, but the separate license agreement grants only non-commercial personal use without a business license.](https://www.topmediai.com/terms-conditions/)

[View TopMediai](https://dubsheet.com/topmediai)

### 8. Fish Audio

Expressive text-to-speech, voice cloning and long-form studio with a credit-metered API.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — The vendor names eight languages for text to speech with native accents, though a homepage solutions tile claims 30+ languages, so the count depends which page you read.](https://fish.audio/)
- [Re-voice your recording: yes — A Voice Changer tool in the web app takes an uploaded recording and renders it in another voice, so your own delivery can be carried into a different voice.](https://docs.fish.audio/overview/platform)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Video dubbing: no — Audio Translation transcribes and translates speech into text you read, not dubbed audio in the speaker's voice, and the product takes audio files rather than video.](https://fish.audio/translate-audio/)
- [Captions and subtitles: partial — Word-level timestamps and speaker turns come back from transcription and the vendor's cookbook turns them into SRT or VTT cues, but that is a developer recipe rather than a caption download in the studio.](https://docs.fish.audio/features/speech-to-text)
- [What the free plan leaves on your audio: partial — Free output may not be monetized or used commercially, which the plan card and FAQ both state; whether that audio is watermarked or credited is not addressed anywhere.](https://fish.audio/)

[View Fish Audio](https://dubsheet.com/fish-audio)

### 9. Typecast

Expressive AI voice generator with emotion controls, voice cloning and a developer speech API.

**Where it improves on Riverside:**
- [Languages: yes — The current model speaks 35 plus languages and the docs enumerate 37, from English and Korean to Hindi, Thai and Cantonese; accents are not broken out.](https://typecast.ai/docs/models)
- [Your voice trains their models: partial — You must consent to your upload being used to train your own custom voice, and no page offers a way to decline while still cloning.](https://typecast.ai/voice-cloning/)

**Trade-offs against Riverside:**
- [Captions and subtitles: partial — Subtitles come only from the developer tools, which write SRT, WebVTT or raw JSON timings beside the audio; the studio plans never mention captions.](https://typecast.ai/docs/cli-reference/timestamps-captions)
- [Voice to video: partial — A built-in video editor pairs the voice with visuals and music and exports up to 4K, but export quality and watermark removal depend on the plan.](https://typecast.ai/text-to-speech/)
- [Works inside: partial — Automation platforms are covered through the API, with documented Zapier, Make, n8n and Google Sheets paths, but no Canva, Adobe or video editor plugin is documented.](https://typecast.ai/docs/integrations/zapier)

[View Typecast](https://dubsheet.com/typecast)