Thankfully, they have the equally-impressive Pocket Casts to turn to – and it provides strong competition for Overcast on Apple devices too. Overcast is iOS-only, which is a shame for Android owners. Its quality makes it well worth the money. However, you can choose to become a “patron” by paying £2.29 for three months, £4.49 for six or £8.99 for a year to support its development. Overcast is completely free to use with all its features. The app recommends podcasts in categories including news and politics, technology, comedy, and music, with a neat feature to link the app with your Twitter account to see what podcasts people in your network are enjoying. Meanwhile, Apple Watch owners will appreciate Overcast’s smartwatch app, which is a simple way to control listening from your wrist. Its Smart Speed feature enables you to speed up shows for quicker listening without turning them into episodes of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Overcast has all the basic features you’d expect: downloads for offline listening, push notifications when new episodes are available, and the ability to create a playlist of episodes for longer listening sessions. Developed by Marco Arment – who previously made popular read-it-later app Instapaper – it’s an excellent app for managing your podcasts and discovering new ones. IPhone and iPad owners disgruntled with Apple’s app should definitely try Overcast. But here are five podcatching apps worth looking at – or rather, listening to.

Not all of them are great: Apple’s standalone podcasts app, for example, only has a two-stars (out of five) customer rating on its own app store.

Pocket podcast app