I like Overcast – Overcast Review

The ads are mostly ads for podcasts you might like anyway and not noticeable or obtrusive. The layout is pared down and useful while giving basic info about each episode and links to the website page of the podcast so you can find out more (most of the time). I don't know who is the Overcast demographic but the selects Overcast features for each category of interest is helpful. The previous apps I've used didn't have this quality of selection. I actually bothered to click on "write a review" b/c they promise not to auto-ask. Nice honor system they deserve recognition for. A few things that could make the interface even more friendly -- --It would be cool to have an option to search for topics within podcasts, not limited to podcast titles or ones that have been keyworded(I don't know if that's a thing, I'm assuming). If searching for a specific book, or topic of controversy, I go through all the podcasts I subscribe to and scroll though to around when I think they might cover the topic and it ends up being pretty ad-hoc and concentrated to the beginning of the alphabet. I might be missing something, but maybe there's a way to search within podcast episodes. --when I pin something, which I do for reference, the icon is always an Overcast icon. I realize that is good for the company but it would be nice to have some distinguishing feature to the link like with normal links. --how to navigate from current episode to the podcast 'home' page within Overcast so I can see the other ones easily. Maybe there's a shortcut I don't know about. What I love about this is you can share the episode at a current time. I can take notes by sharing the Overcast timestamped link to my Drafts app and write while I'm listening or save certain points I want to revisit. Maybe other apps have this now but the previous app. which was the premium version, didn't, and Overcast does at a basic level. (This is not to discourage anyone from the premium option. I returned to podcasts recently so I'm figuring out the lay of the land on a basic level. I've had Overcast for a year though and am happy with it enough to write this!)
Review by suzieXoh on Overcast.