Poke around the settings and you’ll find handy toggles for cellular syncing, seek acceleration, and rotation lock, as well as customizable forward and rewind buttons and advanced remote controls. Unless you happen to hate the color orange, you’ll love Overcast’s meticulous layout.

It’s not just the easy navigation and big, bold controls Overcast has an attention to detail unlike any other podcast app. Impeccably crafted and thoughtfully designed, Overcast’s interface makes searching and listening to podcasts an absolute pleasure.

Overcast (free, with $5 in-app purchase) was built for the best possible reason: Its developer, Instapaper creator Marco Arment, couldn’t find a client that fit his specific needs. Instacast 5 was no slouch in that department, with a gorgeous, intuitive interface, offline playback, full-text search, and dynamic playlists, but even if you’ve been a fan since version 1, there are plenty of worthy replacements in the App Store. Like Twitter clients or weather apps, podcatchers all pretty much do the same thing–organize and play your favorite shows–so the user experience sets the tone. Over the course of its lengthy version history, it from paid to free with in-app-purchases and even offered two levels of subscription memberships, but modern clients kept the pressure on until the company announced earlier this week that it had run out of money and wasĬonsequently, Instacast leaves loads of good options in its wake. But with the podcast app’s popularity came a catch–along with a hoard of new users, a slew of competing players popped up too, all vying to chip away at Instacast’s sizable audience. One of the first podcast clients on the iPhone, the pioneering player helped propel the medium from its humble roots into a global phenomenon spanning the gamut of genres and subjects.

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