Overcast 2024.11.1
The price change goes into effect tomorrow (November 21).
Premium is going from $9.99 to $14.99, the first price increase since it was introduced 8 years ago.
The new 48-hour listening history feature builds upon the undo seek feature that Overcast introduced earlier this year.
- 48-hour History and Undo: Accidentally seek too far, leave your phone playing overnight, or delete the wrong episode, podcast, or playlist? Just undo it!
The undo seek feature has been one of my favorite parts of Overcast’s big update from July, so I’m thrilled to see this new feature expand even further.
Meanwhile, the new Listening Stats feature gives Overcast users a great way of recapping their podcast listening on a daily, monthly, or yearly basis.
I like the history idea. Previously, the only Premium features that I used were uploads and ad removal.
I’m actually still using the old Overcast, though, because I’m still seeing bug reports, and I’m scared of ending up in a broken state if they bite me. The App Store won’t let me revert to the previous version. I could switch to Pocket Casts, but I don’t want to, and it would be a lot of work because, although I can import OPML, there’s no way to transfer the lists of which episodes are queued or already played, nor can I download the unplayed files that I’ve uploaded.
See also: Under the Radar.
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I wish I could go back to the old version. The new one hasn't provided any end-user benefits ('til this new feature, at least) but was very buggy at release and still has some stunning bugs, like not reliably playing the next episode when the current episode finishes, or spontaneously marking listened-to episodes as not listened-to. And simply losing track of where playback was paused. i.e. the most very basic functions of a podcast player.
Listening to ATP, it sounds like Marco's having a lot more fun with his new Overcast, but he might be the only one. 😔
@Wade As I’ve mentioned, I’m also using Apple Podcasts, to keep a separate set of podcasts for family car rides. And, even in that light use, I’ve run into bugs where it forgets the playback position and also where the displayed playback position doesn’t match the actual position being played. The most very basic functions, as you say.
These days, I find Pocket Casts the most reliable and most intuitive in its playlist management.
Price hike on this terrible Overcast iteration that has everyone downvoting it in the store is a serious 4D chess move. 🤦♂️
I never really liked Overcast when I was looking after Apple redesigned Podcasts a few (5?) years ago and I wanted to find a better app. The interface was weird and never clicked with me (and that's not to mention I don't like Marco generally). And now that he messed up OC with a redesign (rule number 1 of software development is never rewrite, just keep slowly improving) sounds like I made a smart decision.
So I went with PocketCasts and have been super happy. It has a great interface (way better than Apple's) and the sync is awesome. I pay for the premium version which seems worth it. And so far the new company has not made it worse.
