Changelog

New Overcast Premium features:
- Listening stats: See your top podcasts by year, month, or day, with stats going back to the start of 2023!
- 48-hour History and Undo: Accidentally seek too far, leave your phone playing overnight, or delete the wrong episode, podcast, or playlist? Just undo it!

Minor bug fixes for notifications, playlists, and UI performance.

- Adjusted Smart Resume to go back less time after short interruptions.
- Fixed a bug in playlists that could cause manually rearranged episodes to reset their sorting.
- Some tiny bug fixes and improvements

Fixed excessive syncing.

- Play Next is now available outside of playlists
- Changes now sync more quickly
- Added Import/Export OPML in settings
- Premium dark-mode app icon now has variants for iOS 18 home-screen tint modes
- Widget backgrounds are now dark if using the Premium dark-mode app icon
- Widgets now render correctly in color-tinted mode
- "Add URL" screen now has a button to manually show username/password fields
- Small buttons on now-playing screen now have larger touch targets
- Fixed widgets sometimes missing artwork
- Fixed high storage usage in some conditions
- Fixed blue icons in search screen under some OS versions
- Fixed crash on Mac upon searching
- Fixed Mac file exports having ugly filenames
- Fixed clip-sharing failing if episode isn't playing
- Fixed the downloads icon being too big sometimes (Again! Differently this time.)

- Made episode-limit enforcement less aggressive
- Added Episode Limits section to settings screen for quickly browsing all of them
- Podcast Settings screens now have quick switches for playlist inclusion
- New Nitpicky Detail to disable Lock Screen time-scrubbing, in case you do it accidentally a lot
- Deleting or marking-as-played now loads the next episode if continuous play is enabled
- Playlists now loop around to the top if continuous play is enabled
- Fixed deleted episodes not appearing dim in a podcast's "All" tab
- Podcast screens now start on "All" mode if there are no "Current" episodes
- Fixed links not reopening after swiping to dismiss and tapping again
- Fixed tappable links in chapter list
- Fixed auto-linked timestamps seeking the current episode while viewing a different episode's info
- The app may now prompt you for ratings (I held out for 8 years… it's time)

- Swipeable now-playing screen for info and chapters
- Swipe from the left to download an episode
- Fixed episode-limit enforcement
- Navigation now persists between app launches
- Added "Download All Episodes" to playlist corner menu
- Fixed a bug that could show the Downloads icon at the wrong size
- Fixed a bug that could lose progress when switching to/from AirPlay
- Added AirPlay 2 switch in Nitpicky Details. Disabling it may work better on certain AirPlay devices.

- Fixed an issue with continuous play
- Other minor bugfixes

Streaming is back!

Also:
- Smart Speed now displays its current speed
- Podcasts can now have different sort order for Unplayed and All modes
- Other minor fixes

- Sleep Timer dedicated button, and support for any interval
- Manage Storage screen
- Seek controls on the mini-player at the bottom of list screens
- Moved info button on playback screen to the corner, like its close button. (Tap the artwork for a quick shortcut to info.)
- Fixed auto-deletion after 24 hours
- Other small bug fixes

I hear your other feedback, and I'm working on it. Thanks for your patience.

- Fixed a bug that sometimes reset episode order in playlists
- Fixed a bug that could lose playback progress
- Added Siri support for playlists and podcasts by name, e.g. "Play my Queue playlist on Overcast"
- Fixed problems launching on visionOS

A new foundation! Complete rewrite and redesign of most of the app, with more coming soon. In this bugfix update:

- Fixed continuous play when using Play Top Episode Next option
- Added One-Tap Play option
- Added Intents/Shortcuts support
- Added more swipe actions on episode cells
- Added pull-to-refresh in playlists
- Added playlist reordering and toggles for built-in playlists in Customize Home Screen
- Empty playlists are now gray
- Playlist widgets now resume the last-played episode if available
- Fixed notifications not opening their episode when tapped
- Fixed custom per-podcast deletion modes
- Fixed Mark as Played not deleting the episode in delete-immediately mode
- Fixed stale artwork/chapters being shown while the current episode downloads
- Fixed background refresh
- Fixed Remote Episode Skip
- Added Send Logs option to Feedback screen

A new foundation! Complete rewrite and redesign of most of the app, with much more coming soon. Stay tuned!

In this 2024.7.1 bugfix update, minor issues and bugs have been fixed from the larger 2024.7 update.

- Improved groundwork for a future release.
- iOS 17 is now required.

- Smart Speed now uses a perceptual filter for more accurate silence detection on shows with mastering errors.
- Minor bug fixes.

Interactive widgets!

- Improved performance with large collections
- Improved importing from other apps
- Fixed clip-sharing to Instagram Stories

- Revamped artwork downloader for higher image quality and reliability
- Minor fixes

- Improved the UI to make Apple Watch downloads faster and more reliable
- Improved sync frequency and efficiency
- Minor fixes

- Everyone hated the new "unplayed" logic, so I changed it back to the previous logic (meaning "not deleted")
- Renamed Unplayed sections to "Current" (let's give that a try)
- In the list-filter selector on the home screen, restored Archive and removed Active
- Reduced sync frequency when not necessary to improve battery life and reduce data usage
- Not-yet-downloaded podcasts now count as current/unplayed
- Fixed widget sometimes showing completed episodes
- Fixed VoiceOver announcing wrong episode count on podcast rows

- Replaced "Archive" filter on home screen with new "All" filter
- Unplayed areas now exclude items that have been fully played; formerly, "unplayed" really meant "not deleted"
- Episode menus with actions to "Add to" playlists now also include corresponding "Move to" playlist actions
- Fixed potential errors and infinite spinners with streaming playback
- Improved performance

- By popular demand, per-podcast listening stats are now collected to enable "most-listened" lists (coming soon)
- Minor under-the-hood fixes and improvements

- More customization of Lock Screen widgets
- Bug fixes

- Fixed a crash on watchOS 8.
- Fixed a crash with certain uploaded filenames.

- Bug fix
- Now requires at least iOS 15 and watchOS 8

- Minor bug fixes
- Accessibility improvements

- Play Next is now available under more conditions
- Other minor fixes

Minor fixes and performance improvements following the previous version's major redesign.

- Redesigned home screen, fonts, and many other elements throughout the app (other areas, such as the now-playing screen, will be redesigned soon)
- Can now choose your own theme colors
- Playlists can now have custom icons and colors
- Playlists can now be reordered on the home screen by dragging
- Added Starred, Downloaded, and In-Progress list options
- Recent episodes are now displayed on the home screen, and can be long-pressed to preview
- Podcasts can be pinned to the top of the list, and pinned podcasts can be reordered by dragging
- Episodes can now be marked as "played"
- Notifications are much more reliable
- Links can now be opened in Safari

- Fixed playback of Anchor-hosted podcasts
- Minor design tweaks (MUCH more coming soon!), including many improved icons throughout the app
- Now exclusively uses the system font for practicality, modern design priorities, and broader world-language support. I bid a very fond farewell to the excellent Concourse font that served us well for many years.

- New consolidated Privacy screens showing domains, trackers, etc. used across all of your podcasts
- Fixed bugs including crashes while streaming, erroneous timeout dialogs, Watch speed selection, and iPad keyboard controls
- Improved layout on new iPad Mini and Apple Watch Series 7