Overcast revises its Apple Watch app

A new update to the popular Overcast podcast player includes a major overhaul of its Apple Watch app. Support for the Apple Watch is notable at a time when third-party app development for the platform isn’t necessarily in the right place, although the watch itself continues to grow in popularity.

The Overcast update revamps the app’s UI from top to bottom, adding some features that otherwise could only be accessed through the phone version. The main screen has big buttons for settings and sync above a drop-down list of your shows and access to the “Now Playing” screen.

This screen now includes a button at the bottom right that takes you to more detailed information about the podcast and allows you to adjust its playback speed, while also giving you the option to jump directly through the chapters on the podcasts that contain them. contain.

The release notes for the new iOS version of Overcast, dubbed 2021.1, note a few more changes without going into detail. Along with the new Watch app, Overcast has now “improved Siri support” and “tons of under the hood improvements and bug fixes.”

Overcast is available for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and now Macs equipped with M1 due to their support for running iOS apps. The app is free but ad-supported, with an optional $ 9.99 subscription that can remove ads.