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.
Love the “share clip” function. Would be great if you have a more affordable plan for light users who also want to support your efforts. Anyway keep up the great work.
Literally the best PODCAST APP!!! However….
Tok-star
…. However, new episodes since Feb. 5th don’t show up anymore what happened??! I checked my phone storage & there’s still plenty of it. Besides I haven’t touched any setting for a long time. Someone know how to fix that really appreciate some help I can’t live on w/o all my favorite podcast’s new episodes 😭😭😭…… (I don’t know if it has anything to do w/ the new rule “any playlists getting over 1500 episodes would stop the function of MANUAL SORTING & PRIORITY PODCASTS …. But I don’t see our dear Mr. developer mention anything about STOPPING THE UPDATE ON NEW EPISODE, whhhhyyyy???) ……… P.S. Besides why can’t go over 1500 episodes, ??? …. my old phone w/o new updates went over 1500 episodes a long time ago w/o major problems occurring except short freeze & occasional APP meltdown restart. …. I’d imagine new phone can handle such even better. 🤔🤔……… P.S.S. I'd love to sort away listened episode but just like many ppl out there I DON’T HAVE THE TIME 🥲🥲 besides it would be nice to quickly check up the episodes’ title to have that sweet nostalgia feeling to see what I’ve listened to all these time I bet our dear developer must can understand being a fellow podcast lover!!🥲
App keeps getting worse
Doraemonic
Since the large revamp of the app last year, it has initially gotten better but then worse again. The latest annoying change is that the playback shuttle controls have been removed from playlist list view, requiring the user to click on another button in order to access the jump forward, backward, pause, controls, etc. while browsing lists of episodes. Lately the app also has a lot of problems streaming podcasts. Many podcasts freeze upon streaming.None of the new features added, are useful and most require an extra click by the user, wasting time and complicating accessibility. ***Note to Apple App Store reviewers: my reviews of this app have seemingly been reported by the developer before and removed for no good reason. I am just a regular user of the app who has strong opinions about the changes that have been made to it over the past year or two. This review is authentic and free of any conflict of interest or other bias.
- Transcripts! (Many more transcript features coming in the future, too. Gotta start somewhere, though!)
- Fixed bugs that could cause background termination
- Lots of smaller bug fixes
