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Happy 12th birthday to me! 🎉🔸🎂🔸🎉
We've come a LONG way since 2014. Remember what 1.0 looked like?
https://www.macstories.net/reviews/overcast-review/
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06A powerful, simple iPhone podcast app.
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2026.7.1 is now in the App Store!
It's a big one:
- Playback speeds up to 5X
- Smart Speed and Voice Boost on Apple Watch
- AirPlay fixes
- Streaming fixes
- Sync fixes
- Storage fixes
- Performance fixes
- Intents fixes
(in other words… a lot of fixes)
The latest TestFlight beta tackles Overcast's most-hated bugs:
- Sync sometimes resets your changes shortly after you make them
- Incorrect ordering of new episodes in playlists with priority settings
- Unexpectedly large storage usage (usually corresponding to download failures)
- Episode progress resets to 0:00 on some failures or output-device changes
…all thanks to a new friend you may know: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1uhzlcu/testflight_build_1161_tackling_the_mosthated_bugs/
The 2026.5 update is now live in the App Store!
It contains big fixes and improvements for transcripts:
- Selectable text
- Better alignment for podcasts that use DAI
- Better performance!
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My first update with transcripts is now in the App Store!
It's a phased rollout that will auto-update over the next week for everyone, or you can update manually from the App Store app whenever you'd like.
More details: https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1sg7epz/version_20264_released_transcripts/
The rewrite fixed a lot of issues, but I hear you on some big remaining trouble areas.
Now that the iOS 26 update is done, I'm focusing significantly on quality improvements.
First up: today's beta brings massive improvements to downloads, streaming, and Apple Watch background updates.
https://www.reddit.com/r/overcast/comments/1o4yuvz/focusing_on_quality/
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I've found the issue. My hosting company, Akamai (Linode), decided to forcibly migrate my primary database to another server without notice.
I apologize for the downtime. Looking into mitigations.
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Pulled the ripcord and promoted the replica to primary.
Downside: some work and a bunch of time to set up a new replica
Upside: everything should now be working again immediately
Still pretty upset at Akamai for doing this without warning. All other recent migrations have been performed with advance notice and maintenance windows with early-fire options. I don't know what happened here — with my MOST important server.
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@maxelamador@mstdn.social Therapy was a prerequisite for me trying to engage with Reddit
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@tuomosuominen@mastodon.world @appleinsider@mastodon.social Correct. I expect it to be released to the public within the next few days.
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@billrey@graphics.social @avakining@hachyderm.io It indeed does use Icon Composer, and every layer is rendered with the glass effect — it's just subtle.
I chose not to make the glass icon look radically different, since it has looked approximately like this for a decade and people really like it.
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@WirlOfWirls@mastodon.nz Can you tell me what podcast(s) it's not working for, or use the in-app Report Detection Issue feature?