Overcast Podcast App

Overcast Podcast App

By Overcast Radio, LLC

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2014-07-16
  • Current Version: 2026.8
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 55.77 MB
  • Developer: Overcast Radio, LLC
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Score: 4.5
4.53936
From 47,508 Ratings
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Description

A powerful, simple, award-winning podcast player. Featured by the App Store as Editor's Choice and critically acclaimed by The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppAdvice, and more. No big company or VC funding here — Overcast is the only major podcast app written by a single person. The Verge: “The best podcast app for the iPhone” 9to5Mac: "Overcast is the best podcast app that I’ve ever used” AppAdvice: "Our favorite podcast client" Six Colors: "My podcast player of choice" The Sweet Setup: “Overcast is our favorite” Cult of Mac: “It’s the best podcast app out there” TIME: “Overcast lives up to its lofty claims” iMore: "My personal favorite" TechCrunch: “There is no reason why you should still be using the Podcasts app over Overcast” Overcast is a modern, fully featured audio podcast app with many useful features in a simple, intuitive interface: - Smart Speed saves time without distorting the audio or sounding unnatural. - Voice Boost makes every podcast the same volume with a broadcast-quality remastering engine. - Download podcasts for playing anytime, even offline. - Search and browse for new podcasts, plus get personalized recommendations. - Create custom Playlists with smart filters and per-podcast priorities, and rearrange the list whenever you want. - Receive optional notifications when new episodes arrive. - Subscribe to a podcast, or just add an episode: try new shows without committing. - Sleep timer automatically stops playback after any time interval you set. - Apple Watch app with standalone playback and cellular streaming. - CarPlay support. And Overcast has world-class privacy, with no third-party analytics, ad services, or tracking code. Overcast is funded by ads that promote other podcasts. If you choose to purchase Overcast Premium to hide these ads, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase. Privacy policy: https://overcast.fm/privacy Terms of use: https://overcast.fm/terms Proudly made in New York.

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Reviews

  • Episode Limits

    3
    By Nope-Won’t-Add-Nickname-2348
    Why did they change episode limits? Who was asking for this to be strictly enforced? Now I can’t use this option and either use a ton of space OR lose true extra episodes I manually downloaded. I other than that it has been great for years. Will seal out a better option now.

  • Updates

    5
    By Lk☀️
    Playlists can now be sorted by episode duration????!!! I’m tempted to unsubscribe and then resubscribe just to give this app more of my money.

  • Strict Episode Limit & Developer Hubris

    1
    By Vilmos Ratajczyk
    Marco, if you’re going to lean on Claude to code your app, you have enough time to make thoughtful decisions on feature roll-out. Instead, you released a strict episode limit that breaks longstanding functionality and user behavior. Your rollout was user-hostile and destructive of users’ playlists, podcast settings, and good will. You would have absolutely roasted Tim Cook for a decision like this. I’ve been an Overcast user since launch because I believed it’s best-in-class, but the negligence and hubris of this rollout resonates with the increasing out-of-touch perspective you bring to ATP.

  • Ruined

    1
    By ohhhhnooooooo
    What used to be a great app has been junked up with premium upsells and AI features. Let me turn this stuff off.

  • Forced data loss

    2
    By scumbly
    The new version’s episode limit behavior is a no-win for anyone who used it as-intended previously — on first launch of the new version I’m forced to either delete all 100+ episodes I manually downloaded, or unilaterally wipe out all the soft limits I deliberately set per show: both are forms of data loss and there’s no option to simply retain the app’s previous behavior. I painstakingly set the per show limits so automatic downloads wouldn’t accumulate on their own but I could still manually add episodes beyond the automatic limit when I wanted; this was how this core feature was designed and telegraphed so it’s how I trusted it to work; I saw nothing wrong with that and it should have at least been retained as an option. Instead I have to choose which of my work Overcast will delete before I can use the app again. Bad experience and a betrayal of user expectations for sure.

  • The best

    5
    By feefingirl
    I was an “early adopter” of podcast listening and have used many players over the years but I have found that this one has the best user interface and is so intuitive! Everything I want to customize is easy to find. Marco is the sole proprietor and I love that I can support a small business for pennies per day, especially when it’s an excellent product! Thanks Marco!

  • Lowkey fire

    5
    By Lyrictullos
    lowkey fire

  • Disappointing updates

    2
    By trpropst
    So often an update ruins my experience. The latest one deletes in progress episodes when a new episode is available (connected to my episode limits). I understand people may expect a limit to be a rigid rule but come on. Who wants the episode they are listening to randomly deleted?

  • Unusable after update

    1
    By JK469
    After the latest update I find the app unusably sluggish. How can I revert to the old version?

  • Why did you make episode limits so strict

    4
    By takdude7
    This is still my favorite podcast app, but you made a frustrating change that's forcing me to rework my download habits. Strictly enforcing episode limits means that if I want to binge a bunch of old episodes of a podcast, I have to disable the episode limit feature. But disabling the episode limit feature means that new episodes will keep automatically downloading and taking up more space until I remember to go back and re-enable the episode limit. I really preferred the old method where manually selecting episodes to download exempted them from the episode limit. It sounds like the crowd asked for this feature change for some reason.

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