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Title: Overcast 2 review: a freemium podcast app adds streaming and goes totally free Post by: HCK on October 21, 2015, 03:00:16 pm Overcast 2 review: a freemium podcast app adds streaming and goes totally free
<article> <section class="page"> <p>The Overcast podcast app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/overcast-podcast-player/id888422857?ls=1&mt=8&at=11lIuy&ct=marcoorg-announcement2) has switched from freemium to free, added streaming, and improved some of its custom audio settings—but it looks and works mostly the same. It changes the equation in choosing a podcast app other than Apple’s owns Podcasts app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/podcasts/id525463029?mt=8), which has minimal necessary functionality—the latest release only averages three out of five stars in its App Store review.</p><p>The original Overcast had a few key features that tried to set it apart from several mature competitors, like Castro and Pocket Casts. Some of these were on the back end, like extra-finicky monitoring and parsing of syndication feeds to provide rapid updates when new episodes of subscribed podcasts were available, as well as providing sync services for subscriptions, downloaded episodes, played/unplayed episodes, and the position within podcasts that a user had already started. (Other apps had some of these features; Overcast tried to do them all and with a higher degree of perfectionism; podcast feeds are especially diverse in how they’re misformatted.)</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2993304/streaming-services/overcast-2-review-a-freemium-podcast-app-adds-streaming-and-goes-totally-free.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Overcast 2 review: a freemium podcast app adds streaming and goes totally free (http://www.macworld.com/article/2993304/streaming-services/overcast-2-review-a-freemium-podcast-app-adds-streaming-and-goes-totally-free.html#tk.rss_all) |