Overcast

I cannot believe that after all this time since the major application revision, the app routinely hangs when playing a podcast. After doing this a couple of times the app automatically delete the podcast. It’s crazily unreliable.

Why did you have to mess with the drag to re-arrange the queue feature? Every morning, as I get ready to work out, I drag my various frequently listened to podcasts into the order that I’d like to listen to them. Now I have an extra step to do to open up the edit menu …before it was so much easier. Please please change it back.

he recommended turning off one tap play and i doubted him, but he was correct. thank you marco

Great app! Great features! I like the control over speed of replay. I like the feature that eliminates pauses in speech. I like the feature that starts replay at the beginning of a word and goes back a second or two. Unobtrusive ads. Things to improve: Please allow me to set a limit on how much storage is used up before downloading of new podcasts stops. Please allow me to decide whether or not i want to download old episodes of podcasts previous to a set time period.

The watch background sync issue seems to be resolved… as well as the subsequent sync issue. Perhaps a more comprehensive set of standard tests prior to releasing updates?

Despite asking it not to track etc it is giving me very specific ads related to the specific cancer I had. DO YOU KNOW WHAT CANCER SURVIVORS DON'T NEED? CONSTANT REMINDERS THEIR CANCER COULD COME BACK POPPING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PODCAST THEY ARE TRYING ENJOY!!!! Used this app for years, deleting and never looking back. Nothing like being traumatized by your podcast app. No way to request NOT having certain ads.

I love overcast, it’s my podcast app of choice, but it’s lacking in some important features for the serial podcast consumer: - you can’t make a note about a podcast or about specific episodes - you can’t search podcast or episodes by your notes - there’s no way to record who recommended the podcast/episode to you - there’s no easy way to get a an Apple Podcasts or Spotify podcast link, so if you want to share with a normal podcaster, you have to look up your recommendation outside of overcast. Cmon guys!!

Best podcast app out there, but priority grouped date sort still doesn’t handle new episodes as expected without manually refreshing the sort method

Update 7/9/25: Recent update introduced a bug with syncing. The app was promptly updated with a fix. This is appreciated! Update 11/21/24: I understand some have found the recent UI refresh and changes difficult (including me), but you cannot say Marco isn’t busting his butt trying to remedy the problems. But now he’s added this amazing new history feature!? OMG this fixes my falling asleep problem. Thank you Marco! Always forgetting to set the sleep timer. Update 9/16/24: SWIPE TO DOWNLOAD IS BACK!!! THANK YOU MARCO!!! Still a few gripes, but they are tiny and few. Lightning fast turnarounds and taking enormous pride in the app, I'd give Overcast ALL the stars. Truly the BEST PODCAST PLAYER! Marco, you've earned it. Again! Get some well deserved rest! Update 8/10/24: Another helpful update! Love the return of the easy access sleep timer. Still no easy download gesture or button. But I have full faith in Marco! He’s clearly working hard to restore the app to its former glory. And we very much appreciate it and patiently await the next update(s). Again, thank you Marco! Update 7/31/24: Another helpful update. Hoping this fixes the irritating queue/playlists resorting issue. Also still missing the easy gesture to download episodes (especially bothersome with the new pause to download thing). You added back the star, why not download!? Also hate that there is no way to just swipe to remove something from the queue (or other playlist) without deleting the episode. Previous Update: Overcast just went back up to 5 stars with latest patch update. Clearly Marco has been working hard to fix issues and restore some functionality quickly. Previous Review: The new update looks good. But... it's really quite the downgrade for those that don't download all their podcasts. Removing the swipe right to download is a huge loss. I don't mind that streaming is gone if it had a quick way to download the podcasts like before. But now things are further buried in menus and take more taps to get to. It's very Apple like, and not in the good ways. It's less efficient where the swiping over was so much better to change playback speed quick when you are doing chores. It's an odd choice for someone that seemed to be in tune with making things quick. The good news is that I have faith in Marco. I imagine some of these pain points will be noisy enough that he'll find a way to mitigate them. And change is always difficult, so some friction might be temporary. It's still a great app and does most of the things it did before. And his blog update already acknowledges that changes are coming and former functionality will be restored. So I'm optimistic, but. I really wish I had waited to update it. I hate that you can't go back to a previous version, but that's an Apple issue. Until we get it back to useful, I'll be using an old iPhone that runs iOS 16 to use overcast more often than not (iOS 17 is required for latest version).

Download queue on iPad stalls out. Manual downloads don’t always work.