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Overcast Podcast App App Store reviews: what users complain about

We ran AppGripe on 500 of the most recent public App Store reviews of Overcast Podcast App (Podcasts, by Overcast Radio, LLC) from 5 storefronts, dated 2024-12-05 to 2026-10-18. Average rating in this sample: 3.99★. 153 reviews contained a complaint.

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Complaint categories

A review can count in several categories. Severity is the AI's estimate of how bad the problem is for the user.

Top issues, ranked by reviews × severity

1. Soften the redesign backlash: 57 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.3/3.
   “Look, I get that for whatever reason, people did not like episode limit strictness. I personally don’t understand why a strict opinion was even necessary. If a limit is set by a user, then respect it. Period. Now it seems that setting an episode limit has litt…” (1★, v2026.8.1, US)
2. Fix features broken by the latest update: 29 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.2/3.
   “I held off updating to the new version for a long time but finally updated this morning, and now the app has been removed from my Apple Watch. So it seems the Watch app was either removed or isn't compatible with watchOS 9, which isn't specified anywhere as fa…” (1★, v2024.11.2, AU)
3. Stop data / progress loss: 24 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.5/3.
   “I upgraded to a new iPhone and restored all the data from backup, hoping it would transfer all of my old podcast episodes that are no longer able to be downloaded. But it didn’t transfer any of them. I have hundreds of older podcasts that I never got to listen…” (1★, v2025.10, AU)
4. Fix in-use crashes and freezes: 22 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.7/3.
   “This app was the best for years and has been ruined by the latest update. It’s glitchy, it freezes, it won’t scroll easily, and is just overall FRUSTRATING! But what really pisses me ofc is that I just paid for another year before the update and now I’m stuck…” (2★, v2026.8, US)
5. Speed up loading: 18 complaining reviews, avg severity 2.4/3.
   “Sounds good, but multiple podcast episodes are just "loading" forever without being played. No explanation, nothing.” (3★, v2025.12, DE)

How to read this

Apple's public feed only shows recent reviews, so this is a snapshot of the last weeks or months, not the app's full history. Popular apps attract complaints in proportion to their size; the useful part is which issues repeat. Generated 19 October 2026. We have no relationship with Overcast Radio, LLC.