Fantastic but buggy
I’ve been an Overcast user for years and years, it’s been my podcast player for most of my adult life and I have had a 5 star review on this bad boy since the beginning. I love this podcast player.
I’m downgrading the review to a 3 though because lately the app feels like it’s become much buggier. Audio often stops playing even while the podcast ticks down. Swipe actions also often trigger interaction so deleting episodes first plays them. Download failures, there’s a memory leak on the search screen where if you search, exit, and open search again you get your old search.
It’s still a great podcast player but it doesn’t feel all that reliable anymore. I hope it’s temporary and I’ll back here again with a 5 star review in a few months!
(EDIT: the feature that showed that podcasts would play via headphones apparently got dropped. I now have to tap the airplay button before hitting the play button always when listening at work. I’m starting to think I’ll be using a new podcast app next year)
I’m downgrading the review to a 3 though because lately the app feels like it’s become much buggier. Audio often stops playing even while the podcast ticks down. Swipe actions also often trigger interaction so deleting episodes first plays them. Download failures, there’s a memory leak on the search screen where if you search, exit, and open search again you get your old search.
It’s still a great podcast player but it doesn’t feel all that reliable anymore. I hope it’s temporary and I’ll back here again with a 5 star review in a few months!
(EDIT: the feature that showed that podcasts would play via headphones apparently got dropped. I now have to tap the airplay button before hitting the play button always when listening at work. I’m starting to think I’ll be using a new podcast app next year)
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Legit info delivered in an engaging way
I love this podcast. These cats deliver evidence based skincare info that I find so useful when choosing products I use.
The best podcast app
I fairly regularly try others and keep coming back to Overcast. It tells me I’ve saved hundreds of hours of listening time by enabling the Smart Speed feature.
New iOS broke the app
I've been using Overcast for at least 10 years and have loved it. The last week, since the iOS upgrade the app has been unusable. It freezes immediately after opening it up and the app sometimes will start playing on its own without any touch or even an accidental switch.
Need a new app, or even better, an acknowledgment that Overcast needs/is getting an update soon!
Need a new app, or even better, an acknowledgment that Overcast needs/is getting an update soon!
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Shameful
And the developer knows why.
You don’t need to pay!!!!!
You don’t need to pay and it doesn’t shove “pay for exquisite account” in your face every single second, which is amazing!!!!!!!!!
Still the Best
Absolutely worth every penny. Overcast is far and away the best way to subscribe, manage, and listen to podcasts.
Nothing better
Best podcast app out there
It's just the best podcast app
The developer cares, and you can tell. Thought is put into the app, with a huge attention to detail. Using it for free is a better experience than anything else but the yearly subscription is worth every penny.
One of the best!
Update: a day one Duo update that’s actually incredibly good? So excited to play with it even more but the best podcast app just got even better. Marco did it again!!!
I’ve been using Overcast for 8-10 years and it’s incredible! Easily the best podcast player I’ve ever used. Things were slightly bumpy after the re-write but the Overcast team has quickly bounced back and now it’s better and faster than before!!!
I’ve been using Overcast for 8-10 years and it’s incredible! Easily the best podcast player I’ve ever used. Things were slightly bumpy after the re-write but the Overcast team has quickly bounced back and now it’s better and faster than before!!!
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Great work lately
I’ve been using Overcast for years, but in the last few months some really standout changes have taken it above and beyond. Transcripts are amazing, I appreciated the developer response around the episode limits and the final iteration works great for me, and day one support on the Duo is fantastic. Thanks a ton, best podcast app on iOS by far!
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Please fix the sleep timer move
The update that just shipped moves the sleep timer so the scrubber shows time to sleep instead of time remaining.
This is REALLY bad UX because e.g. if there’s are a couple more minutes left vs the sleep timer I might choose to extend it and now I cannot know!
Please revert this change Marco, great app otherwise!
This is REALLY bad UX because e.g. if there’s are a couple more minutes left vs the sleep timer I might choose to extend it and now I cannot know!
Please revert this change Marco, great app otherwise!
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The GOAT podcast app
Overcast is the best, simplest, and cleanest podcast app available. I’ve used Overcast explicitly for over 7+ years and refuse to use any other app.
Works fine
Needs more ways to sort episodes.
Was great for years
Now the app freezes on my iPad Pro so it is useless unless I only use my phone. Sad to have to let it go.
Came Back Home
I used Overcast for year and loved it. When I updated phones this year to the iPhone 17, I decided to try the Apple podcast app. I hated almost every day of it. I finally came back to Overcast and remembered why I love it. The ability to lock the scrubbing slider on the lock screen is worth everything in itself. But beyond that it’s a clean design with a great level of personalization.
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Needs a major update
Was the best but now not so much. Have to open & close the app 3 or 4 times just to get it to finish downloading episodes & then even after it sometimes still freezes up🙈
Best podcast app
Still the best podcast app around. Smart speed, voice boost and all the features are well thought out and made with great care. Only podcast app to get
Much better than Apple
It’s easy to use, I love the features like when you pause and play, it has gone back a few seconds to help you with context. The smart speed is great too. Definitely recommend!
Downloading sucks
Trying to download an episode here is so unintuitive. They hide it, it should be easier. But apps keep getting worse idk
