Overcast

A powerful, simple iPhone podcast app.

Last Notes

2026-06-01 21:39:53 CEST

The 2026.5 update is now live in the App Store!
It contains big fixes and improvements for transcripts:
- Selectable text
- Better alignment for podcasts that use DAI
- Better performance!
🎉

2026-04-09 00:19:12 CEST

My first update with transcripts is now in the App Store!
It's a phased rollout that will auto-update over the next week for everyone, or you can update manually from the App Store app whenever you'd like.
More details: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1sg7epz/version_20264_released_transcripts/

2025-05-20 15:46:29 CEST

Big 2025.5 update in the App Store today!
- Completely rewrote the Watch app! MUCH faster and more reliable, and should eliminate MANY sync bugs.
- Disabled Lock Screen time-scrubbing by default to reduce accidental seeks (previously in Nitpicky, now in regular settings)
- Chapter rows no longer accidentally activate while scrolling
- Fixed universal links, CarPlay blank screens, certain audio conditions, playlist-reordering bugs
(And opened a restaurant on Fire Island in the meantime. 😉)

2024-09-13 16:52:52 CEST

This update also has:
- A bugfix that could've lost listening progress when switching to/from AirPlay.
- A new setting under Nitpicky Details that lets you change the mode from AirPlay 2 to original AirPlay, which fixed issues with some people's AirPlay setups in beta testing.
I'm still tracking AirPlay bug reports — that setting shouldn't be necessary, but it feels like AirPlay has changed a lot, especially in iOS 18, and I’m still working toward a universal fix.
https://mastodon.social/@galonsky/113130745903934144

2024-08-24 00:08:38 CEST

Streaming is simplified now to accommodate dynamic ad insertion (DAI):
Streams always start from the beginning of the file, and must download the entire file.
If it fails or times out, it saves your position and stops playback, and you need to retry the complete download again when you can.
(The previous system could download any arbitrary parts of the file, and could retry with multiple attempts to fill in each segment, which doesn't work in today's DAI environment.)
https://mas.to/@TheTrepanier/113013590224253022

2024-07-16 15:01:45 CEST

Today is Overcast's 10th birthday, and to celebrate, I'm launching a major rewrite of the app: https://marco.org/2024/07/16/overcast-rewrite
The first decade has been great, and this new foundation brings it into the next one!
(Spoiler alert: It's fast. REALLY fast. And there's more coming soon.)

2023-08-14 16:34:10 CEST

Substack is currently blocking Overcast.
It looks accidental, via Cloudflare misconfiguration. I'm trying to get in touch with them.
I cannot stress enough to podcast hosting companies: DO NOT HOST PODCAST FEEDS BEHIND CLOUDFLARE!
If you do, you MUST create a Cloudflare rule that changes the "Security Level" to “Essentially Off" for all feed URLs. Otherwise, if you host many feeds (especially per-member feeds), most podcast apps will be throttled or blocked from accessing them.