Oh dear – Overcast Review

4/28 For 30s I was able to download an older version onto my 4s (running iOS 9.5.3) I have rattling around. That was going to be a solution to the inability of Overcast to run in the background and let me use my 6 Plus to do anything that requires memory, power, etc. Overcast isn't allowing older version downloads- this is a YUGE problem for me! ______4/19/18 it's looking like this crashes when I edit photos. Who doesn't want to spend time listening to pods and editing? Obviously this can't continue. In fact, maybe it’s lost the ability to run in the background with many other apps because it stopped when I began typing here. ___________________________________________________ 4/18/18 Crashing constantly. I've restarted it at least a dozen times today and it's cut my listening ability in about half for the last several days. Adding an episode to a playlist is a slow, slow process; it's frustrating and exhausting. I even downloaded a few pod player apps but have more interest in seeing this fixed than using something else. ___________________________________________________ I've been using this since Apple released iOS 11 and broke the native player (and landscape keyboard and I don't remember what else…). Turns out I love having more flexibility for playback speed and silence shortener. Critics of the increased speed don't understand our brains now register that as normal and "normal" speed as slow. Strict and limited choice of 1.0, 1.25. 1.5, 2.0 don't work because the line isn't smooth and proportional. Overcast is missing important stuff- "listen to next" or Cloud storage. I have about 50 podcasts and some are serial fiction or investigations so I want the season handy even if there's no chance I'll see any Wi-Fi all day. Sometimes simple access to the season is all I need so "up next" list add on or downloading from the Cloud would satisfy. It might be the only way to get me to update to the point of eliminating the landscape display since the trade-off hasn't been worthwhile yet.
Review by PhelineCat on Overcast.