Overcast 2 review: a freemium podcast app adds streaming and goes totally free<article>
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Overcast podcast app 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, 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>
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Overcast 2 review: a freemium podcast app adds streaming and goes totally free
