Overcast’s Now Playing screen features a live visualizer at the bottom of the podcast art. For a $5 in-app purchase, however, users can unlock numerous additional features, including: support for downloads over cellular, features that modify or improve sound output (more on those below), and unlimited playlists and episodes in playlists (there’s only one playlist, containing 5 episodes, by default). Says in a statement on the Overcast website. “I want to offer a better alternative for the mass market, so it must be free,” Arment Let’s start with the basics: Overcast is free, though feature-limited. (If you use your iPad for podcasts, Overcast isn’t for you yet-it currently runs only on the iPad in iPhone emulation mode, though Arment says a Universal version that also runs natively on the iPad interface is planned.) That makes sense, because different people listen to podcasts in different ways-and all those apps rightly have their fans. Swell), each app takes a somewhat different approach. Podcasts app (not to mention podcast-aggregation apps like UI playground, like Twitter apps were back in the day. These days, there are countless good podcast-playing apps out there-it’s a Overcast’s main screen features a single list with playlists on top, podcasts below. For the last few months I’ve been using a prerelease version, and I’ve come away impressed. Instapaper read-it-later app last year.The app was teasedĭetailed on Arment’s popular podcast, and now it’s out there for everyone to try. Podcast-playing app Overcast, his anticipated major return to the iOS App Store after selling his popular
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