What happened???
This app was the best for years and has been ruined by the latest update. It’s glitchy, it freezes, it won’t scroll easily, and is just overall FRUSTRATING! But what really pisses me ofc is that I just paid for another year before the update and now I’m stuck with this garbage. FIX IT!!!
An unfortunate update
This is simply a buggier app after the redesign. It just feels like everything needed more time to bake.
Best podcast app period
I’ve been using this app for many, many years and it’s consistently one of the highest quality, most consistent apps I interact with. Can’t recommend it highly enough. I listen to well over a thousand hours of podcasts every year and I have never had a single complaint about this app.
Excellent Podcast Control Options
I’ve been using Overcast for years. It offers excellent options for customizing podcast playback such as listening speed, custom playlists, voice boost, Apple Watch support. Very reliable and an app I use every day.
New design is not user friendly
Raising the prices while making the app buggy? Stop trying to stuff new features in just because it’s faster to develop now with AI.
Good app but the new UI is confusing and takes a lot more clicks to do the same actions, compared to the old UI
Good app but the new UI is confusing and takes a lot more clicks to do the same actions, compared to the old UI
Great app, questionable direction
It had taken me a while to get to grips with the redesign. I'd finally made my peace with it and created a number of playlists. It was working okay, and then they move the goalposts again with this new hard episode limit...
It makes no sense, the previous logic was actually smarter: you decide on the limit for automatic downloads, and if you want to add more, you can. You're in control. With the new logic, whatever you set as the limit is hardcoded, and if you want to download another episode you can't unless you disable the limit entirely, which breaks automatic downloads for that episode unless you fiddle with the (already super fiddly) settings for every individual podcast before and after downloading.
Who does this help? Who thought this was a good idea? If there really is a use case, why not make it an optional setting rather than breaking everybody's playlists?
It makes no sense, the previous logic was actually smarter: you decide on the limit for automatic downloads, and if you want to add more, you can. You're in control. With the new logic, whatever you set as the limit is hardcoded, and if you want to download another episode you can't unless you disable the limit entirely, which breaks automatic downloads for that episode unless you fiddle with the (already super fiddly) settings for every individual podcast before and after downloading.
Who does this help? Who thought this was a good idea? If there really is a use case, why not make it an optional setting rather than breaking everybody's playlists?
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Great Podcast App
This app is easy to use, constantly updated and extremely reliable! You won’t be disappointed with the intuitive interface and wonderful set of features!
Locks up on spotty WiFi
This release does not fix an ongoing problem where the app locks up and will not continue playing if you are on spotty WiFi. It will look for new episodes, even on a plane with message-only WiFi, but will hang until it (never) finishes d/l-ing. Image proof posted to Reddit and Mastodon
Good but getting slow and bloated
I was very happy with this app for years but after several upgrades it became unbearably slow (second and a half to start scrolling) and the interface lost coherence. With impending price increases, I'm switching back to Apple's app, which is an interface fiasco but it is free and responsive.
Downloads Don’t Work
There’s so much to love about this app, but ultimately, the downloads don’t work and never have. Every time I’ve gotten a new phone, I’ve had to suffer through the process of redownloading my episodes as they refuse to do so in the background. I have to keep the screen on and stay on the download queue while they take hours to download. Then the final straw this week: one of my podcasts refuses to fetch new episodes. It took a full 20 hours to be recognized in Overcast when it was available everywhere else. I tried some troubleshooting tips, including switching Sync Profiles to see if the episode showed up there (it did not) and now I’m in download hell. The app deleted all my downloads and now absolutely refuses to process the download queue no matter what I do. The only thing that works is tapping each episode individually. That is unacceptable. No amount of fancy features makes up for broken basic functionality.
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Good for podcasts
Love it!
New update ruined app :/
I’ve recommended this app to many people before, and always loved it. I’ve even paid the premium subscription before in the past.
However the recent updates have been a dealbreaker for me. The episode limits (which used to just be how many NEW episodes it would download) now apply to ALL episodes. This means that it literally won’t let you download more episodes unless you turn off the limits.
For podcasts with daily episodes, this is an absolute nightmare. I had a 1-3 episode limit for these, and I could just manually pick the ones I wanted instead of filling up my storage. However that’s not possible now, and even just a few days of this update has added over 1gb to my storage.
There have also been some pretty annoying changes with previous updates too. For instance, if a specific episode has custom episode art, the title is pushed over to the right. Titles without custom art are justified all the way to the left. This means you can’t easily scroll a list, because the titles are now essentially in two different columns.
I totally get that it’s just one person making this, so I know that can occasionally come with hiccups, but I’m just so confused how decisions are being made for such a popular app. It feels like the developer is just making choices based on HIS own podcasts, not what others use it for.
I’m pretty sure something from every new update recently has had to be rolled back or fixed, which doesn’t reflect very well on however decisions are being made.
I’ve worked in tech for years, and UX/UI testing is really crucial, even for small teams of developers. There are some pretty avoidable mistakes that keep happening that it seems like would have been caught from user testing.
The benefits of using the app now are outweighed by the negative, which is really disappointing. I hope this episode limit change gets rolled back because otherwise I literally won’t have the phone storage to keep listening to podcasts on this app, which feels crazy to me.
However the recent updates have been a dealbreaker for me. The episode limits (which used to just be how many NEW episodes it would download) now apply to ALL episodes. This means that it literally won’t let you download more episodes unless you turn off the limits.
For podcasts with daily episodes, this is an absolute nightmare. I had a 1-3 episode limit for these, and I could just manually pick the ones I wanted instead of filling up my storage. However that’s not possible now, and even just a few days of this update has added over 1gb to my storage.
There have also been some pretty annoying changes with previous updates too. For instance, if a specific episode has custom episode art, the title is pushed over to the right. Titles without custom art are justified all the way to the left. This means you can’t easily scroll a list, because the titles are now essentially in two different columns.
I totally get that it’s just one person making this, so I know that can occasionally come with hiccups, but I’m just so confused how decisions are being made for such a popular app. It feels like the developer is just making choices based on HIS own podcasts, not what others use it for.
I’m pretty sure something from every new update recently has had to be rolled back or fixed, which doesn’t reflect very well on however decisions are being made.
I’ve worked in tech for years, and UX/UI testing is really crucial, even for small teams of developers. There are some pretty avoidable mistakes that keep happening that it seems like would have been caught from user testing.
The benefits of using the app now are outweighed by the negative, which is really disappointing. I hope this episode limit change gets rolled back because otherwise I literally won’t have the phone storage to keep listening to podcasts on this app, which feels crazy to me.
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New features are awesome
The new episode limit feature to keep the oldest episodes has eliminated an admin task I hadn’t realised was taking so much time. I love it and never would have thought of it myself. Thank you Overcast!
Episodes disappear
At times all downloaded content disappears until my watch is reset. The first episode plays and when completed all the other episodes disappear and you are left with nothing playable
The best podcast app, hands down
Been a user for years, most recent update solidified it. Goated
New features!
The last few years, I’ve gotten annoyed with the slowing development and lack of features. I started looking at other apps, but I pushed it off due to the cost of migrating apps. The latest update has given me faith that we will continue to see useful features.
Excellent app
I've used Overcast from the start. Highly recommended.
Unstoppable auto-downloads
As soon as I installed it, it started auto-downloads of all of my podcast library, downloading 60 GBs which went unnoticed because there is no permission dialogue or warning. There is no easily discernible way to stop this behaviour. This should not be a default to begin with.
There is no option to clear the download queue at once, and it keeps retrying the failed downloads. Is the user supposed to clear the download queue one-by-one manually? Huge headache!
There is no option to clear the download queue at once, and it keeps retrying the failed downloads. Is the user supposed to clear the download queue one-by-one manually? Huge headache!
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Audio wholesome goodness
A very good and nicely crafted podcast app with an excellent range of audio enhancement features (eg smart speed and voice boost). The recent move to strictly enforce episode limits is a step backward - I would prefer a flexible system that retains the x most recent plus any older episodes that I have downloaded. The recent introduction of transcripts is a fantastic addition, continuing a tradition of providing great features as part of the free base version of the app.
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