Runcasts is a podcast player designed to make syncing podcasts to your Garmin watch as simple and quick as possible, no iTunes or computer necessary.</p><p></p><p>Runcasts works by constantly monitoring your podcasts for new episodes and once new episodes appear, our servers proactively compress and store them until your next sync.</p><p></p><p></p><p>=== How It Works ===</p><p></p><p>• Sign up at runcasts.com</p>
=== 4.5 ===</p><p>• Fixed a bug where downloading too many episodes caused an error</p><p>• Show error code if unable to connect to server</p><p></p><p>=== 4.4 ===</p><p>• Fixed a bug where cover art wouldn't be updated when an episode changed</p><p>• Workaround Bluetooth detection bug present in latest Vivoactive 3 Music firmware (4.90)</p><p></p><p>== 4.3 ===</p><p>• Skip 30s feature now always available, no longer a setting (removed Runcasts / Settings / Next Action)</p>
This app requires access to:
Captain Marvel 
D2™ Delta 
D2™ Delta PX 
D2™ Delta S 
First Avenger 
Forerunner® 245 Music 
Forerunner® 645 Music 
Forerunner® 945 
fēnix® 5 Plus 
fēnix® 5S Plus 
fēnix® 5X Plus 
fēnix® 6 Pro, fēnix® 6 Sapphire 
fēnix® 6S Pro, fēnix® 6S Sapphire 
fēnix® 6X Pro, fēnix® 6X Sapphire, fēnix® 6X Pro Solar, tactix® Delta Sapphire 
MARQ™ Athlete 
MARQ™ Aviator 
MARQ™ Captain 
MARQ™ Driver 
MARQ™ Expedition 
Venu 
vívoactive® 3 Music 
vívoactive® 4, GarminActive 
vívoactive® 4S, GarminActive S James Young
January 19, 2020 | Version 4.5.0
Absolutely made music unusable on my vivoactive 3. Wouldn’t let me download podcasts and made Spotify not work, and wouldn’t let me download/update playlists I previously had (0/5 if possible)
Martin Otčenášek
January 12, 2020 | Version 4.5.0
Very simple application, everything is funkcional. Download podcast is very quickly, funkcional without fee.
Udo Wagner
December 8, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
Joshua Stillwell
November 18, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
Worked for me first time, got my favorite podcast to my my Fenix in 5 minutes. I don't know what's up with all the negative reviews, just follow directions guys! It even has album art, sweet!
Rob Rose
November 1, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
Works well for me. Running the free version. Takes a bit of time to upload, but I have not experienced any issues.
Nevena
October 30, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
worst music app ever!! wifi was on all the time! and still cannot connect! plus syncing 0% for the past 30mins and still at 30%!! cannot even connect to phone's network!!
David Morris
October 28, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
Since installing this app to “just have a go and see what it’s like” I’ve not been able to access my downloaded music on my watch. Since uninstalling the app I still can’t. Wish I’d never downloaded
John McGibbon
October 22, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
The issue of being unable to access Spotify, etc, can be resolved by accessing the choice of music providers via Settings-Music-Music Providers and selecting source there. Excellent app
Kelsey
October 13, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
If there were zero stars I would rate it a zero. This app overrides all my other music providers and is impossible to uninstall. Terrible.
Developer Reply
October 13, 2019, rconradharris
Hi Kelsey, I honestly don't know what to tell you: I've reported these two bugs: 1) the music providers colliding with each other and 2) the inability to uninstall active music providers to Garmin. Unfortunately both of these bugs are in Garmin's firmware and not something Runcasts can fix or even workaround. Garmin, to my great sadness, has not fixed the issue nor have they provided any kind of update. I'm not even sure if they are actively looking into it, and, sadly, I'm not sure they will ever fix it. We don't expect our customers to distinguish between what's Garmin's fault and what's Runcasts' fault: things should just work, but at the end of the day, folks deserve to understand what's going on. If you want this fixed, don't write to me, write Garmin because they are the only ones who can fix this. Speaking personally, these 1-star reviews matter a lot to me, and the fact that I can't wave a wand and fix this issue because the issue isn't with Runcasts is completely demoralizing. I'm not sure Apple Watch will do any better here, but I'm going to be spending my time there because it CANNOT be worse. I'm not killing the Garmin app, but I'm also not going to be spending much more time on it either. Sincerely, Rick Harris, Founder of Runcasts
Augusto Lara
October 11, 2019 | Version 4.4.0
Avoid at all costs. Install hangs forever and then it’s impossible to uninstall.
Paul Gor
October 10, 2019 | Version 4.3.0
This app completely wiped out Amazon Music on my 245m. The app works as long as you're ok with it being the only provider you have and not having any other options.
Developer Reply
October 10, 2019, rconradharris
Hi Paul, Sorry for the trouble here, you're hitting a very real bug. As far as I can tell this is a bug in the Garmin firmware where it's not properly isolating Music Providers like Runcasts, Spotify and Amazon. I've reported the issue to Garmin, but so far, I haven't received a status update--otherwise I would pass that along. In the meantime, I'm experimenting with workarounds to see if there's a way to mitigate this w/o a Garmin fix. Very frustrating, I know, apologies! -Rick
Jantine
October 5, 2019 | Version 4.3.0
Hi! As somewhere below mentioned as well, it wipes out spotify and vice versa, how can I have both on the vivoactive 3 at the same time? Thanks!
Andy Cheney
September 30, 2019 | Version 4.2.3
Issues to begin with - the dev is responsive & app working great now. If you’re more than a casual listener of pods then this is a must! Support the independent devs- $5/month is perfectly reasonable!
Chris Jordan
September 28, 2019 | Version 4.2.2
Installed software to my Fenix 6 and it reboots every time you try to load music
James Meade
September 28, 2019 | Version 4.2.2
Really struggling with it, I'm trying to remove and would advise installing for the moment. Fenix 6 Pro
Simple_Salmon
September 26, 2019 | Version 4.2.2
Has wiped Amazon Music from my 945, now not sure what to do. Avoid this app until this issue is fixed.
Beeng
September 16, 2019 | Version 4.2.1
Developer Reply
September 16, 2019, rconradharris
Hi Beeng, if you contact us at [email protected] we'd be happy to help you with any download issues you're having. Something you can try on your own is restarting your watch: we've found in many cases that restarting the watch can fix some types of networking issues found in Garmin watches--not all, but quite a few. If that doesn't work, contact us and we can dig in. -Rick
Rory Majors
September 11, 2019 | Version 4.2.1
I enjoy it when it works. I have 3 podcasts in my queue on the website and my watch shows no episodes
Developer Reply
September 11, 2019, rconradharris
Hi Rory, if you contact us at [email protected] we'd be happy to look into this for you. Thanks! -Rick
ɯᴉɥɔɐ
September 10, 2019 | Version 4.1.0
Running is now much more fun! I didn't want to pay $5 each month, but organizing podcasts by hand isn't much fun on a Garmin watch. Then I gave it a try and for me, it's absolutely worth the money. It would be great if the free service wasn't so limited - not everybody has a few dollars to spare each month. But great work!
Herbert Verbaas
September 3, 2019 | Version 4.1.0
This app actually is working fine on my Vivoactive Music 3. Managing the podcasts through the site is extremely easy and the easiest I've seen up until now. Had to reset the app on the watch a few times, but that might be because I was fiddling around with the settings on the site a lot until finally deciding what podcasts to sync. Had to a power off and on of the watch one time because no music played even though BT headset was paired and watch said it was playing music. Not sure if that is a bug in the app or the watch. Space used on the site is also incorrect, says 220% is used while almost 70% is free on the watch. Other then that this now my favorite podcast app.
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