Instapaper Founder Launches Overcast, an App for Smarter Podcasts

Developer Marco Arment is best known for his read-it-later app Instapaper, and for his former role as Tumblr's lead developer

Arment's latest project, however, tackles an entirely different medium: podcasts. The developer just rolled out the first version of Overcast, a deceptively simple, yet powerful, podcast player.

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The app was inspired by the simplicity of iOS 7, according to Arment.

"iOS 7 shook up the market, and by pure luck, shifted high-end iOS design away from fashions I could never compete in — heavy use of textures and complex graphical widgets — into what I could actually do: simplicity, space and typography," he wrote in a blog post. Read more...

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