Overcast

Overcast

By Overcast Radio, LLC

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2014-07-16
  • Current Version: 2025.5
  • Adult Rating: 4+
  • File Size: 29.61 MB
  • Developer: Overcast Radio, LLC
  • Compatibility: Android, iOS 17.0
Score: 4.53943
4.53943
From 43,739 Ratings

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

  • Universe’s worst

    1
    By Luap63128
    If you have anything but a perfectly optimal internet connection, this app’s astoundingly poor design and implementation will drive you nuts. Some months later I’ve come back to add to my review. This is the universe’s worst podcast app if you have less than optimal bandwidth. Instead of downloading podcasts sequentially, it attempts a massive download of all at one time. Worse yet, it doesn’t pause the podcast you are trying to listen to if it needs to buffer as you download it, it just aborts everything, both playing the podcast and it throws away any portion of the file that it did download. When you start to listen again, it starts all over at square one with the download. Often resulting in the exact same scenario repeatedly. I can’t think of any software in the history of time that has been designed worse than this app.

  • Moved from android to iPhone, this is the best podcasting app on iPhone, but it’s one of the worst

    1
    By 8null8
    I came from Android using the podcast addict app, this is the best podcast app on iPhone and it doesn’t even slightly come close to the features of podcast addict 1. The download feature doesn’t work half the time, only if you are completely caught up in a podcast and are only downloading the latest episodes 2. The custom playlist options are horrendous and gives no options besides priority or manual sorting for adding in new episodes as they come around 3. There’s approximately 1/4 of the settings available on podcast addict I hope one day somebody makes a even slightly good podcast app, as I listen to about 20 in rotation, only 2 of which I am fully caught up on I have seceral podcasts that refuses to auto download and will not add the oldest episodes into the playlist first

  • In the age of podcasts…

    1
    By Kyletamo
    How can an app that is meant to play only audio, be this bad. I spend more time closing out and restarting a podcast episode because of glitches or freezes than I do listening. Not only does it often crash, but it resets where you were in the episode and sometimes resets the “played” tag to “unplayed”. truly a troll of an app. I’m going back to a Walkman and burning all my podcasts to a CD.

  • The MacOS Version is Badly Broken

    2
    By wdr1
    I’ve used the iOS version for a long time, but the MacOS version is basically trash. No way to manage store etc. It seems like it’s abandoned. I would avoid.

  • Watch app worthless

    1
    By JeremyJDodd
    Episodes not downloading automatically or on-demand. And streaming doesn’t work. Really too bad. I loved this app now I’m looking at a replacement.

  • Maddening

    1
    By MBShick
    If you love listening to podcasts and hate yourself, get this app. Almost nothing it does makes any sense. It limits how many episodes you can see. And if you choose to show all episodes, that setting won’t persist. I’ve found no way of playing a newly discovered podcast from the beginning (think something like “Serial” and most true-crime podcasts). There’s a “play next” option which doesn’t seem to do anything most of the time. There’s a concept of a queue, but its rules are mysterious. If you’re playing from the queue(?) and you select a different podcast episode to play, when that episode ends, it just stops playing. It can’t handle having to download and play an episode— the developer seems to have never heard of buffering. If the download is slow while it’s playing back, it just gives up and plays something else. I’ve never used anything that has me swearing at my phone more than this app.

  • Sad

    2
    By requiringuniquenicknamesisridiculous
    This app went from “can’t recommend enough” to “can’t recommend.” Crashes constantly, especially if an app isn’t fully downloaded, and seems to have trouble fully downloading eps in the background. A sad fate for a once great app.

  • Tried others, came back to Overcast

    5
    By thetoolman
    I was lured by the idea of AI in my podcast app, and gave it a go with some other apps that left me unsatisfied, I canceled my subscription there and came back to Overcast for getting all of the basics right that I had taken for granted until I tried an alternative.

  • Still broken and buggy

    2
    By ImmaAppFiendOkay?
    Fundamental features of the app do not work. Podcasts frequently don’t download. Be prepared for very frequent “DOWNLOAD FAILED” errors. You need to manually go into the app and tap the podcast to get it to download again. The app requires nonstop fiddling to make it work. The base app was great at one time but those days are over. When you try to use any of the additional features, they’re now completely broken. My podcast list keeps changing the order I set, and the High-Priority Podcasts feature does not work. Full stop. UX glitches are an expectation now. Episodes often stop playing halfway through, or worse, the app plays a totally different episode than what’s displayed. The post-rewrite version feels much buggier and requires way more fiddling than ever before. I’ll plan ahead and spend a few moments working around the Priority Playlist issues by manually reordering my queue only to discover when I’m out walking that Overcast has reverted my set order. It is incredibly frustrating. The UX really needs some serious rethinking. The old version wasn’t perfect, but at least it was usable. Now it feels clunky and hard to navigate, especially if you’re out walking or multitasking. I find I have to stop what I’m doing to really contemplate where some of the button or features are hidden. Base navigation is confusing. On top of that, support requests go unanswered, and the developer has openly said they don’t prioritize responding to them. If I were just starting out with podcast apps, I wouldn’t pick Overcast knowing what I know now. Since I listen to dozens of hours of podcasts a week, I’d likely begin with another app that offers a smoother and more reliable experience. Honestly, I’m considering switching to another podcast app entirely.

  • Watch app is broken

    1
    By Jon-Val
    No longer downloads episodes to the watch. Insanely frustrating to start a run and see that all downloads have failed. Unfortunately need to leave a 1 star since it has been broken since the new watch app and Marco is too busy running his restaurant to fix it I guess, and now redesigning the main app. As he said before, he notices the bad reviews

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