# insidegui/PodcastMenu

Put Overcast on your Mac's menu bar

Repository: https://github.com/insidegui/PodcastMenu
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/podcastmenu
Language: Swift
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: podcast, macos, osx, media
Last push: 2019-02-21T22:59:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3767, "days_push": 2750, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1268, forks 65 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:11.560950+00:00)

## What it is
A macOS menu bar app that wraps the Overcast podcast service so you can listen to podcasts from your Mac's menu bar. It supports media-key playback controls and Touch Bar integration.

## Use cases
- listen to Overcast podcasts on my Mac menu bar
- control podcast playback with media keys on macOS
- play podcasts from the menu bar while working
- unofficial Overcast Mac client
- skip forward and back 30 seconds in podcasts on Mac

## When to choose
- you use Overcast and want a native-feeling Mac menu bar player
- you want media-key and Touch Bar playback controls for Overcast

## When to avoid
- you don't use the Overcast service
- you need a maintained app - the last release was in 2019
- you need a full-featured standalone podcast player

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: gui, audio-processing
- domain: media, apple-ecosystem, desktop-applications
- platform: -
- tags: podcast-player, menu-bar-app, overcast, media-keys, touch-bar, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- insidegui/PodcastMenu (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.560950+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:03:38.395965+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/insidegui/PodcastMenu (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:11.560950+00:00, sha 7131562ed3c5)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.