Was good until I heard ads prompting agendas for a fascist. I’m going to switch apps now.

Do you like missing episodes of your favorite podcasts? Do you like driving into a ditch as you frantically try to fix your podcasts while driving? This app was once good, but has since become maddening and unreliable. Look elsewhere.

I don’t know what they did but they nerfed the ability to stream quite awhile ago and it still doesn’t work. You have to download podcasts for this app to work, even on WiFi. Please keep working on this

I liked the layout but no matter what settings I mess with it will completely stop everything at the end of each episode. And I don’t mean just stop playing, it will lock you out of pressing “play” on your headset for the next episode. This app DOES NOT work for me, I don’t want my phone out to choose the next episode. Tried other apps that tend to force you into paying to use the app. This has been so frustrating I’m redownloading the loathed Apple Podcast app and deleting this one. I miss Stitcher, it was SUPERIOR to ALL of these apps.

I have always had the Watch version of the app set to download a specific playlist when new podcasts are added to it. That playlist is my primary one of weekly listens, I like to have it downloaded to my Watch as well so I can run without carrying my phone with me. This function has never worked for me. Additionally, when I go to manually download episodes to my watch it doesn’t work either. Just today, about 90 minutes ago, I had the app download 1 specific episode to the Watch that should’ve already been on there. I tapped “download when charging” while the Watch was charging. I came back 90 minutes later and it didn’t download anything. Furthermore, when you try and download episodes while the watch isn’t charging then it forces you to play a bad breakout clone on the watch, with the scroll wheel, in order to keep the screen awake. Sometimes it takes 10-15 minutes for this download to happen and if you stop playing the breakout game for 20 seconds you have to start the download all over again because the screen went to sleep and it decides to stop downloading. This is extremely frustrating and happens to me several times a week.

Overcast was great and ahead of its time when it came out 10 years ago. It regularly gets better and is still one of the main reasons I keep using iPhone instead of Android.

Since the rewrite things have largely gotten better. Some of the interactions are still annoying and worse than before (e.g. anything on the now playing screen, but especially changing playback speed). My big issue now is that the most recent update broke bulk downloads. Only a couple of the episodes download, and I have to keep quitting and restarting the app to download all of them. This is made worse by streaming being unreliable. Pausing during a stream will completely cancel the stream, which is super annoying. Skipping back or forward also cancels the stream. I'm hoping the author will restore the code he accused of being an overcomplicated mess that was actually his accumulated learnings in building a reliable product.

Not at all happy with this app,it might be time to change.

I entered the apple world while I was trying to distract myself during a trial that I was doing years ago. I found podcasts. Then, quickly, I learned that all the apple nerds used an app called overcast. They said the developer was super smart, used the most current options apple offered, and was responsive to his users. I started using it on my iPad. The, I got an iPhone. I started using it on that. Then, my wife bought me an Apple Watch to use while running so I didn’t have to carry a phone. It has been wonderful. Recently, I found the timeline was not keeping up on my Apple Watch which created problems for me when I would either try to skip ahead or the workout app would interrupt to tell me how long it was taking me to run a mile. I sent feedback on an app for the first time in my life. This morning, not more than a week later, the timeline issue is fixed. I think the downloading got better too. I am so grateful for this app and the apple nerds who suggested it. Mr. Arment…thank you for making this. I’ve always used the free version. I’m going to find a way to work paying for your app into my budget.

The way network lost during streaming is handled is awful. It just immediately gives up and starts playing the next podcast