Overcast Now Includes Smart Resume Feature and More
Our favorite podcast app, Overcast, keeps getting better. The latest app update adds features that make playing your favorite podcasts even easier and fun.
First introduced in 2015, Overcast continues to offer some of the best playback features available to podcast listeners. With the 4.1 app update, three more tools have been added.
Overcast's new Smart Resume feature allows you to jump back a podcast by a few seconds whenever you hit pause. This is a great way to catch up on a conversation before hearing something new.
The Smart Resume feature is on by default. To turn it off, visit the Nitpicky Details section under the app's Settings page.
The app also has a new option to auto-delete episodes 24 hours after completion. This means less clutter in your favorite podcast app and less space being used on your iOS device.
Finally, the new update now supports password-protected podcasts. On the Add URL screen, you'll find a "Use Password" option. Click on this to add the username and password for a password-protected podcast
The rest of the Overcast 4.1 update offers bug fixes and other changes, as mentioned in the app's What's New page:
Fixed bugs related to glitchy audio, stalled playback, failed downloads, and disappearing play controls
Extremely large playlists now only show the most/least-recent 500 episodes to improve app performance for users with very high subscription counts
Rotation support is now iPad-only; iPhone rotation has proven too costly to maintain for its extremely low usage. My apologies to the few people who did use it.
You can download Overcast from the App Store.