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Overcast Podcast App is #42 in News Grossing in United States and charting in 11 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 9 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperOvercast Radio, LLC
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.5 (48k)
Version2026.10.1
Age rating12+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)5M+ worldwide
Overcast Podcast App update history & changes
Last change · 31 events since 16 Jul 2014Full timeline ↓🌟Featured by Apple🌟Featured by Apple📈Entered the top 100🆕Its developer released another app: Fineliner📊Downloads up ×2.6 in a week📦Updated to version 2026.10.1📦Updated to version 2026.10📈Entered the top 100✏️Added hidden keywords: audio✏️Added hidden keywords: audio
Full timeline · 31 events
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 📈Overcast Podcast App entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · KR
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, PL, SE
- 🆕Overcast Podcast App: its developer released another app: Fineliner
- 📊Overcast Podcast App: downloads up ×2.6 in a weekabout 1.1k a day now (our estimate)
- 📦Overcast Podcast App updated to version 2026.10.1- Layout improvements for iPhone Duo and iPad
- More space in now-playing screen for transcripts, show notes, and chapter lists - 📦Overcast Podcast App updated to version 2026.10- Sleep Timer fade-out can now be disabled under Nitpicky Details
- Improved performance on large collections
- Better handling of failed downloads
- Interface improvements for iPhone Duo - 📈Overcast Podcast App entered the top 100Top Free · News · KR
- 📈Overcast Podcast App charting in a new countrySouth Korea
- ✏️Overcast Podcast App added hidden keywords: audiowords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, SE
- 📈Overcast Podcast App entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · AE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, SE
- ✏️Overcast Podcast App added hidden keywords: audiowords in the App Store's hidden keyword field (found by probing search)
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, SE
- 📈Overcast Podcast App entered the top 100Top Free · News · IT
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, SE
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA, SE
- 🆕Overcast Podcast App first spotted by AppInsider#36 in Top Grossing · News · United States
- 🌟Overcast Podcast App featured by Appleapps · CA
- 📦Overcast Podcast App version 2026.8.1No release notes
- 🆕Overcast Podcast App: its developer released another app: Unforgetful: Never Lose a Task
- 🆕Overcast Podcast App released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.5 ★
48k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#42
News GrossingMeasured
New ratings a week
80
▲ +32% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Overcast Podcast App on the App Store
App details
App ID
888422857
Publisher
Overcast Radio, LLC
On the store since
Jul 2014
12 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
12+
7 content notes below
Languages
1
EN
Size
60 MB
Also listed in
Entertainment
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive ThemesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude HumorInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or ReferencesInfrequent/Mild Horror/Fear ThemesInfrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy ViolenceInfrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment InformationInfrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
Overcast Podcast App downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Overcast Podcast App's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
In-app revenue
Worldwide, what users spend in Overcast Podcast App before Apple and Google take their fee.
How this is calculated
Not in an overall Top Grossing chart, only in category charts: each category position is converted to the overall position it corresponds to, then priced on the same rank-to-revenue curve, inside the part of each market the charted apps leave over.
Business model: Subscription-led
How Overcast Podcast App makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
SubscriptionsIn-app purchases
Subscriptions
/mo
of revenue
Top in-app purchases · App Store US, most popular first
| 1 | Overcast Premium subscription | |
| 2 | Overcast Premium subscription | |
| 3 | Overcast Premium subscription |
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NewsGrossing | #42 |
 Japan | NewsGrossing | #46 |
| United States | NewsFree | #85 |
 United Kingdom | NewsGrossing | #56 |
 Germany | NewsGrossing | #52 |
 Canada | NewsGrossing | #30 |
| United Kingdom | NewsFree | #57 |
 South Korea | NewsGrossing | #57 |
| Japan | NewsFree | #136 |
 Australia | NewsGrossing | #62 |
| Germany | NewsFree | #102 |
 France | NewsGrossing | #95 |
| Canada | NewsFree | #71 |
| Australia | NewsFree | #76 |
 Indonesia | NewsGrossing | #87 |
 Saudi Arabia | NewsGrossing | #100 |
 Italy | NewsFree | #178 |
| Saudi Arabia | NewsFree | #159 |
| Indonesia | NewsFree | #161 |
Apps near Overcast Podcast App on the chart
News Grossing, around #42.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.5 ★
48k ratings
Measured
Ratings
48k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
80
▲ +32% vs the 2 weeks before
Written reviews a week
7.5
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.6★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Recent written reviews
3.3★
people who write skew negative
Review momentum
83/100
faster than 96% of News apps
Growing fastest in Canada ▲ +67% · Germany ▲ +50% · United States ▲ +43%
New ratings by country (7)
| Country | New ratings a week | Share | Last 2 weeks vs the 2 before |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 51 | 65% | ▲ +43% |
| Germany | 9.5 | 12% | ▲ +50% |
| Canada | 5.5 | 7% | ▲ +67% |
| United Kingdom | 5.2 | 7% | ▼ -36% |
| Australia | 4.2 | 5% | ▲ +38% |
| France | 2 | 3% | ▲ +50% |
 India | 1.2 | 2% | – |
App Store ratings in the countries we track, 4-week average.
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Overcast Podcast App
From the 95 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Mixed but leaning positive (57% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and its features and content. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and recent updates.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Clear, simple, easy to use”
- Features & content: “So glad it’s still an option!”
- Updates: “[Update at iOS 27 launch time]”
- Price & subscription: “Cautiously optimistic after some recent bumps (premium user)”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Not working all of a sudden”
- Updates: “Update Aug 2019: Still a Beast”
- Price & subscription: “Raising the prices while making the app buggy?”
- Features & content: “I do like it and it’s options and abilities”
About Overcast Podcast App
A powerful, simple, award-winning podcast player. Featured by the App Store as Editor's Choice and critically acclaimed by The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, AppAdvice, and more.
No big company or VC funding here — Overcast is the only major podcast app written by a single person.
The Verge: “The best podcast app for the iPhone”
9to5Mac: "Overcast is the best podcast app that I’ve ever used”
AppAdvice: "Our favorite podcast client"
Six Colors: "My podcast player of choice"
The Sweet Setup: “Overcast is our favorite”
Cult of Mac: “It’s the best podcast app out there”
TIME: “Overcast lives up to its lofty claims”
iMore: "My personal favorite"
TechCrunch: “There is no reason why you should still be using the Podcasts app over Overcast”
Overcast is a modern, fully featured audio podcast app with many useful features in a simple, intuitive interface:
- Smart Speed saves time without distorting the audio or sounding unnatural.
- Voice Boost makes every podcast the same volume with a broadcast-quality remastering engine.
- Download podcasts for playing anytime, even offline.
- Search and browse for new podcasts, plus get personalized recommendations.
- Create custom Playlists with smart filters and per-podcast priorities, and rearrange the list whenever you want.
- Receive optional notifications when new episodes arrive.
- Subscribe to a podcast, or just add an episode: try new shows without committing.
- Sleep timer automatically stops playback after any time interval you set.
- Apple Watch app with standalone playback and cellular streaming.
- CarPlay support.
And Overcast has world-class privacy, with no third-party analytics, ad services, or tracking code.
Overcast is funded by ads that promote other podcasts. If you choose to purchase Overcast Premium to hide these ads, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase.
Privacy policy: https://overcast.fm/privacy
Terms of use: https://overcast.fm/terms
Proudly made in New York.
No big company or VC funding here — Overcast is the only major podcast app written by a single person.
The Verge: “The best podcast app for the iPhone”
9to5Mac: "Overcast is the best podcast app that I’ve ever used”
AppAdvice: "Our favorite podcast client"
Six Colors: "My podcast player of choice"
The Sweet Setup: “Overcast is our favorite”
Cult of Mac: “It’s the best podcast app out there”
TIME: “Overcast lives up to its lofty claims”
iMore: "My personal favorite"
TechCrunch: “There is no reason why you should still be using the Podcasts app over Overcast”
Overcast is a modern, fully featured audio podcast app with many useful features in a simple, intuitive interface:
- Smart Speed saves time without distorting the audio or sounding unnatural.
- Voice Boost makes every podcast the same volume with a broadcast-quality remastering engine.
- Download podcasts for playing anytime, even offline.
- Search and browse for new podcasts, plus get personalized recommendations.
- Create custom Playlists with smart filters and per-podcast priorities, and rearrange the list whenever you want.
- Receive optional notifications when new episodes arrive.
- Subscribe to a podcast, or just add an episode: try new shows without committing.
- Sleep timer automatically stops playback after any time interval you set.
- Apple Watch app with standalone playback and cellular streaming.
- CarPlay support.
And Overcast has world-class privacy, with no third-party analytics, ad services, or tracking code.
Overcast is funded by ads that promote other podcasts. If you choose to purchase Overcast Premium to hide these ads, payment will be charged to your iTunes account, and your account will be charged for renewal 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the iTunes Store after purchase.
Privacy policy: https://overcast.fm/privacy
Terms of use: https://overcast.fm/terms
Proudly made in New York.
Latest updates
2026.10.1
- Layout improvements for iPhone Duo and iPad
- More space in now-playing screen for transcripts, show notes, and chapter lists
2026.10
- Sleep Timer fade-out can now be disabled under Nitpicky Details
- Improved performance on large collections
- Better handling of failed downloads
- Interface improvements for iPhone Duo
2026.8.1
