Can’t decide between overcast and apple podcasts

By KE8UPE, 7 March, 2021

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi,

I love podcasts!
Recently, I deleted all my podcasts so I could start fresh.I had over 300.
For a while, my 256GB iPhone 12 Pro Max, and overcast, handled it well, but recently, the app would crash, whenever I opened it, including today.
As a result, I deleted my overcast account, after sending myself the OPML file that I had made.

in addition to my phone, I also have an Apple Watch series 6, HomePod, M1 MacBook Air, and an Apple TV 4K.
I’m not a huge fan of the design of the Apple podcast app, and the fact that you have to use iTunes on a PC, if you want to listen to your podcasts on windows.
However, I do like the convenience of being able to listen to them on my HomePod. I also forgot to mention, that I have an Amazon echo, which can also play Apple podcast.

I can’t decide between apple podcasts and overcast. One thing that I like about overcast, that Apple podcast doesn’t even offer, is the ability for premium subscribers to import their own audio. Though extremely rare, sometimes I come across files, such as old episodes to other podcasts, that I could import into the app, and listen to, if I were to become a premium subscriber.
I also like that overcast has a web player, that can be accessed on either Mac or Windows.
For those unaware, overcast is one of a few iOS apps, that’s also available in the App Store, on an M1 Mac.

Given all of the above information, which app should I go with?

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overcast. I'm using it right…

overcast.
I'm using it right now.. without an account.. and I like it.
apple podcast isn't updated too often.. as far as I know. I guess it was OS 13 or 14 which got it updated.. I'm not sure really.
but overcast gets its updates and I'm thinking I might make an account soon :)

podcast app

I realize this is not what you are asking, but I have switched to the google podcast player. It is not availble on the Mac though. How well it would do with 300 podcasts I just can't say.
Just a thought... good luck

I'm a bit confused.

I like overcast but don't know what you're going to do with the OPML file?

I don’t know either

Hi,

I don’t know either.
I was planning to use it as a backup.
Do you think my phone can handle that many subscriptions?

If the following tells you anything, when I had that many subscriptions in the app, I had to turn voiceover off, in order to click on the settings button.
This is because, the screen froze, because it was trying to load a bunch of stuff.

Overcast

I personally use Overcast. It's working out great for me. I didn't know you could import files into the app. That's cool. :-)

Yeah, but that’s a premium only feature

Hi,
Yeah, you can import files of your own, such as podcast episodes from a webpage. However, you have to be a premium subscriber. Thankfully, a premium subscription is only $9.99 annually.

I don't know.

If you have an older phone it might struggle but I honestly don't know.

I have a 12 pro max

As my post states, the app used to handle my database just fine, until recently, when the app would crash every single time I opened it, on my 256GB 12 pro max.

I'd encourage you to write…

I'd encourage you to write to the dev, Marco Arment, he's very supportive.
I am running an iPHone 12 pro with around 200 podcasts with no issues. I have the app set not to downoad episodes, if that helps. I used to download, because space is cheap, but that killed my battery.
Maybe you have a corrupt local database or some bug like that. Have you tried to either delete all apps documents and data, or delete the app and install it again?