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There are two apps I pay for that replace an app on my phone: $15/year for Overcast replaces Apple Podcasts and & $25/year for Transit replacing the transit function in Apple Maps (which I may be able to drop now that I\u2019m on Google Maps, but I haven\u2019t tried yet, and", "context": "", "use_case": "Podcast player", "switched_from": "Apple Podcasts", "story": "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"}, {"id": 748924689, "item_id": 46807793, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807793", "by": "jahnu", "date": "2026-01-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "switched to Overcast instead", "excerpt": "Funnily enough I stopped using the Patreon app for podcasts with the big rewrite a while back where it became almost unusable and switched to Overcast instead.", "context": "", "use_case": "podcast listening", "switched_from": "Patreon", "story": "Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut from All Patreon Creators in iOS App"}, {"id": 748093281, "item_id": 46755830, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755830", "by": "hoistbypetard", "date": "2026-01-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I still think Overcast is nicer to use than Antenna Pod.", "excerpt": "I don't know about categories overall, but I'm attached to my iPad and won't switch to Android in part because Affinity is not available there, nor is there any near equivalent as far as I can tell. 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I\u2019m not one of those that hate on Tahoe, it\u2019s a temporary distraction, but Overcast more and more looks like some kind of slapped together non native app. He needs to hire a designer, he can afford it.", "context": "", "use_case": "Podcast listening", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["podcast listening", "podcast player"], "compared": [{"slug": "patreon", "name": "Patreon", "co": 1, "switched_from": 1, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606", "title": "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219", "title": "Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111006", "title": "What podcasts are you listening to?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980039", "title": "Apple's Latest Attempt to Launch the New Siri Runs into Snags", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801419", "title": "Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut from All Patreon Creators in iOS App", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688804", "title": "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 767920160, "item_id": 47995010, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995010", "by": "SllX", "date": "2026-05-03", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "$15/year for Overcast replaces Apple Podcasts", "excerpt": "I don\u2019t know what you\u2019re paying for that you see a $60/year subscription, but if it\u2019s worth the $60/year to you, then you pay it. If it\u2019s not, you don\u2019t. There are two apps I pay for that replace an app on my phone: $15/year for Overcast replaces Apple Podcasts and & $25/year for Transit replacing the transit function in Apple Maps (which I may be able to drop now that I\u2019m on Google Maps, but I haven\u2019t tried yet, and", "context": "", "use_case": "Podcast player", "switched_from": "Apple Podcasts", "story": "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"}, {"id": 765650304, "item_id": 47853144, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853144", "by": "stasomatic", "date": "2026-04-21", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Overcast more and more looks like some kind of slapped together non native app", "excerpt": "Oh I love ATP and even eventually warmed up to Casey. It\u2019s just that \u201cstick to what you know\u201d (or don\u2019t?) thing. I\u2019m not one of those that hate on Tahoe, it\u2019s a temporary distraction, but Overcast more and more looks like some kind of slapped together non native app. He needs to hire a designer, he can afford it.", "context": "", "use_case": "Podcast listening", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman"}, {"id": 754659344, "item_id": 47166209, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166209", "by": "vinhnx", "date": "2026-02-26", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Exported from Overcast.", "excerpt": "I listen to a lots of podcast. Currently here is my pinned favorites ones: Practical AI Grit Wenbin Fang's Podcast Playlist (Founder of https://www.listennotes.com/) The Gradient: Perspectives on AI Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast The Empty Bow Hacker News Recap Dwarkesh Podcast Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) Interconnects Talk Python To Me Training Data --- My podcast collection (opml file format). 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I still think Overcast is nicer to use than Antenna Pod. Microsoft Office apps work much better on iDevices, in my experience. (I know they exist for Android, but I've never had much luck editing there, where it actually ", "context": "", "use_case": "podcast listening", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"}, {"id": 739050129, "item_id": 46190633, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46190633", "by": "n4r9", "date": "2025-12-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Deutsche Bahn has a good contact page: https://int.bahn.de/en/help/contact Conversely, Virgin Media's is well into the \"f** off\" realm: https://www.virginmedia.com/support/help/contact-us", "context": "", "use_case": "podcast player", "switched_from": "", "story": "The fuck off contact page"}]}