What Users Really Think About Overcast

I want to like this app and at one time it was superior to Apple's podcast app. I find Overcast's interface to be clumsy and obscures what episode and season you are currently listening to. Annoyingly it does not keep track of the Current or All view setting so I have to change that each time I open...

I was going to try this app. But when trying to add my podcast...it was taking waaaayy to long. I go to the category..choose the podcast..and instead of just adding the podcast to my favorites and letting me continue to add other podcasts in the category, it goes to my library. Then I have to go bac...

I’ve used this app for several years. Paid subscriber for most of those years. On the iPhone app works quite well. 4-5 stars. Apple Watch integration is quite poor. Very difficult to manage downloads. Often a podcast download disappears while listening. Multiple attempts to download file despite...

I’ve been a user for at least 8 years. Recently new episodes stopped downloading so I finally updated the app. I’m note sure when they did the redesign, but wow it’s awful! There is no visual hierarchy, everything is tiny and randomly distributed…a double-rowed horizontally scrolling panel is just c...

This used to be the best podcatcher app out there. Now it is so buggy that it is unusable. Adding episodes to a queue is virtually impossible anymore. Pressing the episode settings button is unresponsive the first 15 times you press it and then episodes in your queue just disappear or re-sort themse...

You used to be able to set default playback speed for all the episodes in a given podcast. Now you can’t, which is really frustrating, because some podcasters are super slow and some talk a mile a minute. I’m constantly adjusting the playback speed. Also, it’s hard to access the speed controls. Th...

Recently reinstalled on my device and it’s having problems streaming episodes over a solid WiFi connection. Not sure if it’s a bug or not.

He’s moving on from Apple platforms and is more interested in destroying the environment generating slop code with LLMs.