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Needs a stability patch NOW! (Iphone 6+)I find ridiculous that the Economist is allowing this app to deteriorate as I’ve witnessed. I used to use the old app which just downloaded a digital copy of the magazine until I transitioned to the new app. Now the old app was very clunky and did not provide the most current news daily, but at least it was a functioning piece of software. I’ve had the app crash so many times today that I began to wonder if it was an issue with my phone (an Iphone 6 Plus). However, after several restarts and ensuring that every other app was closed the app STILL crashed every. Single. Time. When I first downloaded the app it would crash from time to time-probably once a day- but this has gotten out of hand. I can’t even read the short morning briefs because the app isn’t reliable enough to not crash within 15 seconds loading; which in itself took over 15 seconds. I don’t want to be that guy but the apps almost unusable for me now and I LOVE your content. At this rate I find myself reading less and less of this brilliant magazine due to this issue. I don’t use a paper subscription anymore because it quickly became clutter; the old app doesn’t have the daily curated articles nor the morning briefs; and now that the state of the app is this subpar I almost feel to shift to another source as primary news app such Reuters. PLEASE give this app some care, because in all honesty, when this app is functioning as intended it THE BEST “news” app in my humble opinion..ManzanaSuccksVersion: 2.14

Very unbiased, Economics is the perspectiveI love this mag. I mean I really do (Econ Major at UCO btw). The only complaint I have is the excess of ads despite me paying the full price. Otherwise I think that this is the most worthwhile news source to date. A lot of people used to consider The Economist to be a conservative newspaper, but truly I tell you that it has done a 180 in 2020, they really just use economics alone as their guiding subject. They were supporting the vaccine when it was first out and mostly a political issue. They don’t pander to leftists or conservatives very often or really at all. Also they take good critical letters from respected individuals in their letters section. I truly enjoy disagreeing with an article and then finding someone smarter than me who wrote exactly why it is wrong, I could go on and on about this magazine. I love the formatting (shorter less fiddly articles, with all of the facts and as little opinion as possible) and I’m definitely a lifelong customer as long as that Economist quality is retained. I also really enjoy how the economist never says we think that (…) they always say this is the way to fix it or just state things how they are based on economic indications. There is actual evidence to back up economics, rather than some crazy conservative conspiracy theory, or a radical leftist rant. I don’t think they’re always right but this leads to a level of honesty. Excellent customer service also..BennieCasVersion: 3.0.9

News, but better.I never personally thought I’d be writing a review for a news app. I’m a 21 year old college student and generally skeptical of news organizations. After taking a class with a heavy usage of Economist articles, I see why my professor uses them in his lesson plans: they’re factual. After multiple months of contemplating whether or not to get a subscription, I finally pulled the trigger. The app is almost seamless, minus a few features I wish I could have in the app like a search option and a viewing history for easier access to show my friends the articles (I wish I could give you all a half star less for this, but I’ll go with 5 stars because I enjoy the content so much). I feel as though I can put my trust in The Economist because they deliver the news in a digestible and palatable way. I enjoy being able to audibly listen to articles and understanding what’s going on in the world. If you’re tired of traditional American news companies like NBC, Fox, CBS, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and many others, then try out The Economist. The Economist offers a new level of detail, honesty, factuality, and trust that I appreciate when it comes to news reporting. I intend to resubscribe for more after my introductory subscription. The Economist (as far as I understand) does not do editorials or opinion pieces. They offer well thought out news reporting and a deeper understanding of current events..Unicornluv747Version: 2.21.1

Feedback on v3 updateGreat app overall. Putting three stars to elevate some of the issues I encountered in the new version. I’m using the app only in dark mode, if that’s helpful context. 1. Espresso is gone. Someone else mentioned here as well. 2. App state is lost too quickly. My reading style is to jump back and forth between this app and others (e.g. switch to Wikipedia mid-article and come back afterwards to resume the same article). Currently, the app cold starts into the main menu after being the background for about a minute. This is a significant annoyance for me. 3. Read-state check marks were reset locally after the update. These were great to keep track of my backlog in recent few weekly issues. If this is a one time thing, probably I can bear the disturbance however. 4. Read-state check marks are less visible (in dark mode) on the weekly tab compared to v2. This makes it harder to find unread articles in weekly issues. 5. Articles in daily view has advertisement boxes with no advertisements in them. They show empty gray space. While I’m here, I also would like to see the read-state synced to my account server-side. Having them local only is the only reason I read the Economist on just one device, and not iPad and phone together for instance. I hope this is helpful! Thank you for the great app the dev team! i.Tugrul AtesVersion: 3.5.0

World Class Journalism!As an Economist reader, either Print or Digital, for a decade or so, more or less; I have come to appreciate the in depth analytical manner in which important topics of broad interest are presented and articulated with a wealth of experience and knowledge. Other long standing readers of The Economist can certainly add their own verbal applause based on their own unique reading interests and experiences. For those considering a subscription, I suggest trying out the free one month trial subscription, to observe for themselves the Economist’s exceptional journalistic analysis first hand, and if it suits their news reading needs, continue with a monthly subscription, in order to double check your intuition’s approval that you have discovered reliable trustworthy journalism, then after a month or two of reassurance, you may be surprised to find yourself cancelling your auto-renew monthly digital subscription, and opting for the annual digital subscription, which offers a better annual price than 12 months of the monthly auto-renewal option. But whichever subscription strategy you eventually sign on to long term, I would like to suggest and even predict, that as the years pass, you will find yourself to be better experienced and knowledgeable in a wide range of important worldwide issues, expertly articulated with thoughtful analysis and valuable expertise. In my final analysis and limited opinion; and within the decade or so of my Economist reading experience; The Economist has consistently set the standard of worldwide journalistic excellence for others to follow; well done; Economist; Well Done!.SimpleViewpointVersion: 3.45.0

ExcellentThe Economist is my favorite news magazine and the app is easy to use and well designed. it is certainly one of the most reliable sources of analysis and information for me. However there are two areas which I find which the Economist fails to take its usual broad-minded approach of treating both sides of the issue., the first is the debate around climate change. The Economist has decided to editorially to accept the often one-sided claims of so-called climate alarmists. Although this is obviously an area where there is robust debate, tht Economist usually fails to provide the other side of the debate, which does not see the world was facing an imminent catastrophe due to climate change. There is simply too much evidence against the alarmist view to justify it being ignored. The other area has to do with race relations in the United States, in which parallel to the climate debate that usually takes a one-sided view, and fails to consider seriously the vast amounts of evidence rejecting the thesis of widespread racism in the United States. Nonetheless, it is brilliantly, written, engaging, and in most cases, except for those, I’ve indicated a real education which I learned from every week..**kiankins**Version: 3.44.1

Balanced Journalism and a Great AppI started reading The Economist at around 16 (yes, really). It was recommended reading for passing my British army entrance tests and I’ve been a fan ever since. The idea of truly unbiased journalism is a myth - as soon as one picks up a pen or a camera, they are biased. What is included or omitted is as much a part of bias as what opinion is deliberately conveyed. That said, I think The Economist does an excellent job of being balanced; and when it is taking a side, it says so - elections, wars, major debates. I particularly like the lack of affiliation of each piece and the ‘voice’ of the paper, I find it reduces grandstanding and personal politics (anyone willing to write for a paper that deliberately doesn’t give the author credit is alright by me). Then there’s the app. It can be read daily as a source of news or you can read the weekly edition ‘cover-to-cover’ as I do. If you’re looking for a great one-stop-shop for informed news, The Economist app is it..Shakespeare PhobeVersion: 3.20.1

Somehow better than doomscrollingThis is a news app, yes- and lot of the headlines are scary. But I find myself spending more time on this app than I do on other content-apps like Reddit or tiktok- bc there's just so much good hyperlinked content here. Today I started with an innocuous article about Ikea's prevalent art style, then suddenly I hyperlinked to an article about some important 60's fashion designer, which led into more articles about other fashion designers, etc. Right now, I'm scrolling through this lengthy article commentating on Julius Cesear's autobiography, it's been a whopping 5 mins, the end of the article is no where in sight, and I'm loving it. I got an Economist subscription because I initially needed a better news source. Now, between reddit and the rest of the internet being overrun by AI slop, I find myself spending more time HERE than on the actual internet?! 10/10 recommend this app and an economist subscription.ScslckjeVersion: 4.56.0

Bugs in latest releaseI have loved this app and made it my primary means of accessing the content for more than one year now. With the latest update the audio playback seems ruined. Though the audio opens with each new issue and appears to automatically download, the playback takes several seconds, almost a minute in most cases to begin. It is almost as if the download restarts each time I open the app, and the audio files are not actually saved. Moreover the playback lasts for about half of an article, and if my screen turns off or I lock the phone, the playback and the app seem to crash. I am not sure what changed, but the stability of the app is terrible all of a sudden. Particularly with regard to the audio playback. I do like the new arrangement and layout of the ability to access the different audio articles, but there is no point if the articles won’t play..LonghornchaserVersion: 3.0.7

These people are excellent at their jobsI was compelled by a recent piece on the history of Russia’s attitudes towards Ukraine to post an enthusiastic, if disappointingly thinly answered, paean to the journalists of the Economist on my Facebook page. To be able to combine history, journalism and a spot of political philosophy in such a piece, in readable and lucid format, without dumbing down or preaching, and to do this sort of thing in five or six pieces week in, week out, takes more than impressive talent. It must demand application, which is belied by the impression of effortlessness it conveys. This, my friends, is real journalism. And I don’t always agree with what it is saying (although I must confess disproportionate alignment with content on an ongoing basis). Subscribing digitally, after years of enjoying the paper version and then enduring a long absence, was a very, very good idea. I flagellate myself for not reading more. The Economist deftly assuages some of these feelings..FiohubbyVersion: 3.3.0

App quality is deteriorating fastI have been a print subscriber to the Economist for 15+ years. Many years ago I switched over to fully digital when the app matured, the app being my preferred way to consume the content. I hate to say it but the app is declining in quality. UX often gets sluggish, random crashes are becoming a thing, the edition download has become less functional and the audio overlay interrupts with other phone audio. It appears The Economist is starting to cut back on internal support for the app, and it’s beginning to reflect on the quality of it. The poor quality edition download means I can’t use it fully on long flights with no WiFi as I’m used to. The other issues just reflect poorly on a premium news outlet like this. I hope they listen and fix the issues, and ideally get rid of the stupid audio blocking. If I stop reading the app because of these problems then I’ll stop my subscription with it..Mcb0125Version: 3.60.0

The only news magazine worth taking!I have taken the Economist for 30+ years. Nowhere else will I get news from around the world that has both economic considerations and political in depth but accessible. Once while coming back from the Middle East, there was a small article entitled, The moonshine capital of America, Franklin, County, Virginia. It was an accurate portrayal of the culture of SW Virginia. Add this to what is happening economically in equatorial Africa or Southeast Asia and you have quite a comprehensive mix of news and analysis. I’ve accepted the fact that I cannot read everything each week in the Economist so I never run out of articles of interest! My son reads the Economist on line and dedicates Thursday evening to the latest news. We both find the editorial commentary to be balanced and any biases transparent! This magazine is a refreshing breath of air in a world with so much unhelpful spin and fabrication!.Citizen of ConscienceVersion: 3.21.0

Didn’t do their planning with transition to upgrades versionAs a long-time fan and loyal reader of The Economist, I find myself appalled at the disastrous execution of its latest app update. This once-great product has been stripped of essential features from the previous version, leaving users to contend with a frustratingly subpar experience. While the playlist feature was eventually reinstated after backlash, the inability to clear the playlist is an unforgivable oversight. This glaring flaw has resulted in an unwieldy 10+ hours of audio tracks that cannot be removed, forcing users to manually stop playback—an especially maddening ordeal if you happen to fall asleep mid-session. The carelessness of this rollout is both disappointing and infuriating, leaving me questioning how such a trusted publication could deliver an app so riddled with avoidable issues. Fix this mess, and fast..Drewz$Version: 4.12.0

Terrible app, but content is goodThe app is terrible. They just didn’t take the time to think through the basics of a reading app. Every time you close your phone and reopen, you need to manually start from the beginning, navigate to the issue you are reading, navigate back to the article you were reading, and then find the place in the article you left off. It absolutely drove me nuts when on a 10 hour flight where I was constantly back and forth between reading and kids. It’s a problem the rest of the time too. Nobody would use the Kindle app if it did this. Makes me wonder how this app got high ratings. Of course, the Economist is excellent content, but since this rating is for the app, I’m focusing on the app itself..ZebingVersion: 3.42.0

Content is outstanding, delivery just meh.Firstly, I’m an iOS user and get my content from the Economist primarily via audio. This content is fantastic - no complaints and gets five stars. But this is an app review and the app is frustrating for several reasons but primarily because I have no idea how to manage and use the audio “queue”. There is no obvious way to initiate the audio play feature except if you only care to play the audio from an article that is showing in the weekly section. In the Home Screen I want a nice big button that says “Audio Queue” it something like that and in which a means of adding you and deleting from the queue is possible. I have been using this app for over 5 yrs and this morning as I write this review, I have no idea how to start playing the selection of articles I was listening to yesterday!! This is awful! Economist, please fire your app developer and hire someone.. anyone else..Msb64Version: 3.52.0

Fix the bugsScreen sizing not correct. The main reading pane has to be resized when the carousel indicators are on the bottom or the audio status. These are covering the reading pane or part of a bottom ad. After you build an audio queue and close and reopen the app, the audio loading indicator spins and no way to play audio. This makes audio queueing unusable The audio queueing ux needs some thought. If you close the audio controls there is no way to get into edit mode without either going to the edition edit queue button under editions or restarting the app. If you use build queue under editions, you should be given option of adding to the start or end of an existing queue. Now it always puts selected articles at the end..HandyManDanVersion: 3.26.0

Brilliant Topics Keep Me Thinking Well AfterwardsI may be disabled from health issues. In the past couple years, I may have had to walk away from my CPA Firm I worked so hard to build, but my brain still wants to learn... just on its own timeline. The Economist App provides that for me... and how ever my body needs to take it in!! Days when my eyes struggle or concentration is tough due to pain, I can put in my AirPods and immerse into learning about the economic world via listening! If I can’t take in full articles, the morning briefings are perfect. Best if all, it gives me things to think about. And the ones that are still lingering around at dinner time, provide my husband and I something intelligent to discuss and mull over. Feels as if I may still “have it” ... Thank You..Mitzi0666Version: 3.0.2

First rate journalism, visual disasterThe economist remains one of the best sources of news anywhere, so it’s a real shame just how much they’ve lost their way from a design perspective. This has to be one of the least attractive news apps I’ve ever seen. I’m sure a lot of time and money went into developing the new app/website, but it just looks awful. Backgrounds are different shades of gray and white (and dark mode is even worse), weekly stories are presented as just one long list with no attempt at design or layout, and no thought seems to have gone into the use of blank space/ margins or the visual coherence of the app. What’s worse, the old version of the app—and the website for that matter—were a model of clean, uncluttered design..New Haven GuyVersion: 2.23.4

Good with 2 big flawsThis app overall is quite well done but there are two big flaws I wish they would fix. Both are a form of bloatware I believe: 1. There is an ad loaded/displayed between EVERY story. Come on! Plus the ads take a second or two to load, so that’s happening every time you flip between stories. 2. It almost never remembers my place: i.e. whenever I flip back to the app it almost always reloads to the Home Screen instead of the last article I was reading. I’m no developer but I assume this is because the app itself must be some kind of resource hog and so it’s getting killed in the background whenever I switch to something else. Please fix! It’s tedious to have to always bookmark my current story and then navigate back to it every time I switch to the app..The-batmanVersion: 3.55.0

Audio playback has been fixed, but additional features would be appreciatedI’ve been subscribed to The Economist for several years and the audio edition has become my primary method of consumption. It’s very convenient to listen to the articles during my commute or while working around the house. The latest update seems to have fixed the audio playback issues where article audio would take forever to load and then crash somewhere in the middle, losing your progress. I haven’t had any of these issues since updating to the latest app version. I would give the app 5 stars but have taken off a star due to the lack of AirPlay support for the audio edition. I can play all my music and podcasts through my AirPlay speakers, but not The Economist - please add this..TeehaleVersion: 3.0.9

An American Conservative Review of the EconomistI have only recently subscribed to the Economist and my initial impression is favorable. Your reporting is more balanced than what I am accustomed to from the Financial Times, the other European publication I read on a daily basis. I value the European perspective on "the American Experiment," still evolving after 243 years! There is a sense of desperation on the political Left in America. They want to be well received at Davos and will do and say anything to try to convince the world that we have abandoned the principles of our Revolution in favor of woke globalism. Nothing could further from the truth, most Americans have never heard of Davos and are not interested in the globalist ideas of President Obama, but you won't hear that from American media..Marine Son of ZeusVersion: 3.18.0

Latest app broke audio playback across articlesUpdate: The developer responded and said this issue will be fixed in the next release. Bumping from 2->4 stars, and will go to 5 once fixed! The 3.0 version of the app broke the ability to listen to multiple audio articles with the phone in your pocket. I used to be able to pick the first article in a section and then they would all auto play. Now when on cellular data, if the phone screen is locked, it isn’t able to load the audio for the next article; it shows a “Something went Wrong” error. This means at the end of every track I have to unlock the phone and click the retry button for it to work..Killamajig2Version: 3.0.5

Wonderful Journalism and Narration, But AI LoomsThe feature that I’ve found especially useful is the narrated versions of articles. These are narrated by real humans, not AI. This sets The Economist apart from other publications such as the NYT or the Atlantic which rely on AI narration. I find AI narration unpleasant and unsettling. It is not able to convey the true emotion or flow of the writing (one has to watch, not just read, Shakespeare). The Economist’s voice actors are excellent and I appreciate that they do not simply read the article verbatim. Instead, they modify it slightly so that it flows better in a spoken format. This makes it easy and pleasant to “read” The Economist while walking or cooking. For a long time I have wanted to commend The Economist on this feature. I am spurred to now because of the recent proliferation of AI narrated articles. Several times I have tapped on an article to listen, only to be disappointed when I see that the narration is AI. Ideally, I would like all articles to be narrated by humans. I realize that this is not necessarily practical and that many other people may not feel as strongly as I do. If the choice is between AI narration and no narration, the AI option wins out. My proposed compromise would be a new icon that notes from the home page that an article has an AI narration. At present, the symbol for human or AI narration is the same, a play button. If it would be possible to create a second icon specifically for AI narration, my frustration while browsing would be reduced. Most of all though, I want to strongly recommend that The Economist broaden it’s human narration. The journalism is excellent and the app is great. I would celebrate the publication’s “humanness” both in writing and narration. May your passion and creativity continue..Exuberant-Elephant-ShrewVersion: 4.63.0

Love the economist, but the app is jankyStrictly speaking on the quality of the app, it’s not good. Poor UI decisions are further hampered by a sluggish and glitchy app which I regularly need to force close, despite being on a 2021 iPad with fully updated OS and app version. For instance; the pages will freeze halfway through a swipe showing just 1/3rd of the article, clicking images/charts will freeze the app, the sizing regularly chooses to go it’s own way, migrating across the weekly edition isn’t user friendly or intuitive. Additionally, I’m on a iPhone 13 with full updated OS and this app literally CRASHES MY PHONE. I’m an app developer and I know what in talking about when I say It’s just this app where it happens and is complete trash..Bdhood16Version: 3.59.0

Great content, though the app needs some loveI absolutely love the content; to the point, fact and data based journalism with a good dose of opinion from people across the political spectrum. The only reason holding me back from giving it a five star rating is the lack of features which are standard on other news apps. My top pain points: 1) not having the ability to highlight text in articles. (How many times do we highlight an interesting insight in the print magazine!) 2) the Save feature doesn’t sync across devices. It’d be great to save an article on my iPad and Web and later continue reading it on my iPhone 3) Make sharing interesting insights easier. Today I need to first copy and send the sentences I found interesting, and then share the link to the article separately. Can we please combine these two steps together, so that I can share a particular sentence and have the app-auto attach the link to the article as well? Not only will it be a better user experience, but it’ll accelerate the growth of the app. Great work to the team and thanks for considering the feedback!.Pace2k12Version: 3.58.0

Functionality lackingAs a reader/subscriber for over 30 years, I am disappointed and dismayed by the lack of functionality of this Economist app, and the tech generally. If I am reading an article on my iPad in the app and I want to check something else before finishing the article and navigate away, when I return, I’m seeing the home page and I have to search for the article I was reading. Not only does it not return to what I was reading, there is not even a “history” I can use to find it. This is basic functionality. Also, if I attempt to share the article to my MacBook Pro, it shares a text url instead of opening in my default browser like well crafted news reader apps do. Get with it, Economist! Just because you’re old, doesn’t mean you can get away with being primitive!.RedseagobyVersion: 4.66.0

The Economist Knows DigitalThe Economist app for iPad is excellent. If you’re accustomed to reading the magazine in print, the transition to digital is seamless. The layout is straight forward with each section of the “newspaper” at the top of the screen. You can quickly and easily “jump” to the section you want to read. The photos and graphics are crystal clear. You can easily save stories to read later. You can “gift” articles to share an article with a friend or colleague. You can download an entire issue to read at your leisure. Finally, and perhaps best of all, you can access back issues from an archive. That’s truly a luxury you can hold in your hands. 5 Stars.BrookyJudeVersion: 4.14.0

A lifetime source of information and thought…I initiated my love affair with The Economist at age 26, receiving the flimsy-paper airmail edition weekly when the definite article was the capitalized and part of its calling. It followed me in working stints in Chile, Brazil, and El Salvador. For me, the inventor of the “Big Mac Index of Currency Exchange Rates” represented the greatest English language news journal and the best source for world news(given McDonald’s closing its 850 stores in Russia, it leaves the Index in a bit of a bind, or does it switch to the cost of a liter of bottled water with the standard quart augmented by a 1.06 factor?), which kept me well rounded and which I relished. And now, some sixty years later, I feel the same way. Bravo Economist!.Going...going...Version: 3.5.0

Won’t let me log inI’ve been subscribed to this app through iTunes for years, now all of a sudden it won’t let me log in. Also, I get a free membership to the Economist through my school’s library, and there’s no way to log into the app using that. I’ve been paying anyway, which was frustrating, and now it won’t even let me log in at all even though I’m paying for it. I’ve tried clicking the “Restore your purchase through iTunes” button and it gives me an error. I’ve tried logging on with user name and password and it tells me to log on through the iTunes option. I tried deleting and reinstalling the app, restarting my phone, and nothing seems to work. I’ve logged on successfully via the website, but it doesn’t have all the same features as the app, such as the Morning Briefing, which is what I primarily what I read every morning. I would give this zero or negative stars if possible because I currently can’t use it at all and it therefore provides me negative utility, due to all the time I’ve wasted trying to log on. If someone can help me resolve this, I will gladly update this review to 4 or 5 stars..TopherDealioVersion: 2.30.2

Version 3.36.0 is not quite there yetIt’s nice that you can one again select a word and look it up. Unfortunately you cannot expand the selection to more than one word. Also, with the smallest text size the last couple of words in a paragraph are sometimes missing. My wish list includes syncing saved articles and the check mark for articles you have read between devices. And some actions, like saving an article, are strangely sluggish. I often think I failed to tap the bookmark icon, only to discover that I have now tapped it twice and it is turned off again, A display of the most recent articles would also be nice. I sometimes use Apple News to get that. I don’t want to miss articles that were online but never made it into the print edition. I’d like a Daily Charts section in the digital weekly edition like the Economist Explains section, and extra articles in other areas, like we get for the Britain section in the U.S. The content remains great and I appreciate the addition of photo captions. Thanks..PtoptoVersion: 3.36.0

Great Newspaper, Bad appLike many, I was very disappointed with the Economist dropping e-ink versions of the paper. I hate having to have another reason to spend way too much time staring at a screen. And for a person that is always traveling, the paper deliveries just pile up at home, not to mention they arrive the Tuesday after the new edition is out. But, that's not the annoying part. This app will not save your location in an article you're reading if you get interrupted and leave the app, no matter what settings you chose within the app. It will also annoying start in the Home screen that attempts to feed you articles that are new. I like the layout of the paper, I want to read the sections together... so I want to have the choice to start the app right where I left off, every time. Sure, I can also sit at my desk for many more hours in a week reading the "paper", but i can't stand having a flashing add distract me while I'm reading a paragraph. It would be lovely if the Economist provided a PDF style view of the paper in their app for tablets that has the exact layout as the physical paper, this would give it a much improved aesthetic..Bw_akVersion: 3.47.0

Great articles! Let’s stay positive...The Economist is there for us to grasp the fundamentals that bring this world together and make it spin on daily basis. It is great to read and listen and trust its content. Surely, for me, its articles are like an immersion into never ending learning. Keep going! One suggestion is to try -every now and then- to show the good things about this world on macro geopolitical and societal topics. Sometimes, I feel that the tone of the conglomerate of articles tend to be too negative, although realistic. For me, often the glass if half full, and I am sure The Economist can see the world this way as well. By being positive, we can always influence our followers :).AlfredoJAAVersion: 2.22.2

Great newspaper another lousy app.For 20 years I have enjoyed reading the Economist but consistently found the user interface to be wanting. Trend continues..Blue TribeVersion: 2.23.1

Insane amount of storage requirementThis app takes up almost 6Gb of storage capacity and there is no way to reduce it. When I contacted tech help they offered no solution.Subscriber for 40 yearsVersion: 4.60.0

So insightful, timely and informativeLove your journal.WrereVersion: 3.25.0

Enough TrumpLong time fan of the Economist’s view of the world, I just wish the Canadian version wasn’t the American version. We’re inundated with American media in Canada and would far prefer to read the British or European Economist.SkiiniainVersion: 4.51.0

Terrible for listeningFor years I’ve listened to the economist on my daily commute (and kept the habit through COVID). As I’m sure many do, I read/listen to pretty much the same sections every time, so the ability to add entire sections to a “playlist” easily, to then listen in one go, was critical. But in this new version I have yet to find an easy way to do that. It would seem I have to go to each article and click to listen. Not only is that annoying, but it makes it impossible to (safely) listen to it while driving. Please help if I’m missing something!.EmonteirVersion: 3.0.7

Great Balanced ReportingI really appreciate the professional and neutral reporting of this newspaper. The editorial team has never disappointed me in how a range of opinions is presented and in how it manages to balance political views from many viewpoints..NeuroscieVersion: 4.88.0

Good content, poor audio featuresThe content is great, and the daily stories have high caliber. The “3 star” rating is due to the poor podcasting/audio portion of the app.LjjjjhghghdzvhVersion: 2.30.2

Great magazine, lousy 2020 app.How can you go so wrong with an update. The new app is really unintuitive and difficult to navigate..Ecoqc1993Version: 2.21.1

Your newsVery informative. An excellent look at the world daily..Isaac31Version: 4.75.0

One of the best outlets of journalism leftThe economist is a wonderful and reliable source of news, not often seen as source Of breaking news; their analyses of current events, economic or not, has no parallel. I wish I had more money to pay the subscription more often 😅.Carlos.herreraVersion: 4.75.0

You get what you pay for…I really appreciate the thoughtful, sometimes editorial, evidence based thinking that the Economist brings to my awareness as opposed to the shrill and histrionic views of many other news based on link based advertising..Cap’m TomVersion: 4.75.0

ExceptionalIn a world filled with disinformation and surface-level thought, the Economist has never been more valuable..EDZav000Version: 4.75.0

Excellente source de d’actualitéL’application et le contenu sont excellents. Beaucoup d’articles de qualités qui donnent une perspective globale sur ce qui se passe sur la planète. La seule chose que j’aimerais est que l’application se synchronise avec tous les appareils au niveau de ce que nous avons lu..JuliHenziVersion: 4.73.0

Insightful and balancedAlways offer deeply considered opinions, and maintain neutrality at the same time.Auntie maryannaVersion: 4.66.0

Long Time ReaderMore than sixty years - my father was a subscriber and I began to read it, or rather pick away at it, in my early teens. Like the way The Economist has evolved over the years, from a fairly austere house magazine for the Conservative Party, to providing broad commentary on trends and events worldwide. It always has been a notch above any similar publication and being able to sustain that position over such a long period is remarkable. Thank you. My son is a reader also, so there’s not a bad shot at getting to a hundred years of continuous readership in our family..CharlieXVVersion: 4.70.0

By date?I wish there was a way to read articles in order by date published. Otherwise the app is essentially perfect..EvangelistaGVersion: 4.66.0

Free and open mindsPeople often think of the title “The Economist” names a journal about business and economics. The reality is that the journal is one of free thinking, open-mindedness, and core human values. This covers the our world, and our sciences, medicine, geopolitics, war, economics and many other relevant topics. The journal helps us dodge the bullets of unfounded human bias, and closed mindedness. The journalists add knowledge and interest to our lives and makes us more interesting people. I’ve subscribed for over 15 years, and constantly think that there is so much to be curious about, to understand, and learned while expanding my mind..Rol NieksVersion: 4.66.0

Too many adsLove the Economist which I regularly read on my devices. But all the scrolling through seemingly endless ads is getting old. Very old..Davex25Version: 4.66.0

Before NAInformative and keeps me up to date on world affairs before it hits North America.JJ Walks99Version: 4.66.0

Great content, minor scroll bugThe gold standard journalism. One comment about a bug: it sometimes randomly scrolls to the top of the page this is especially obvious when reading long articles like the year in photos. Very frustrating experience please fix thank you love the economist.Willson1312Version: 4.66.0

Excellent as alwaysThe Economist is a beacon of stable journalism in a time of turmoil..Baffled CanadianVersion: 4.66.0

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The Economist - News, Podcasts Negative Reviews

Worse and worseThe news on The Economist is fantastic, as always. However, the app seems to be getting worse and worse. As near as I can tell, it is non-functional if you do not have an active Internet connection, despite the option of downloading entire issues. On top of that, even with an active connection, when it changes story an error often comes up saying “something went wrong”, and requiring action on the listener’s part before the next story plays. This is so bad that that I often just switch to a recorded book in frustration. The latest update seems to have made things even worse. Not only does the applications still run poorly when there is not an active Internet connection, but it has also gotten very slow to respond, and often starts playing all by itself minutes after I have stopped it. So I could be in the middle of a meeting, and suddenly everyone is surprised to hear my phone loudly reading a news story over the speaker. It is amazingly bad considering how good the rest of The Economist’s operations seem to be..CharlieCrutchfieldVersion: 3.60.0

Audio edition unusableExcellent content, terrible app. I use the app (and subscribe to The Economist) solely to listen to the audio edition. Usually I listen while doing something else: driving, riding a motorcycle, in the gym, on an airplane, etc. Usually I am also using other apps such as for navigation , and often with no or intermittent internet access. In older versions of the app, this was not a problem. There is an option to download the audio file and play it back through the app. However, updates over the past year have made this feature virtually unusable. Often it will randomly stop playing, and I need to pull over, restart the app (which restarts from the beginning of the edition) and then advance it to the right article. Sometimes it just doesn’t play at all. Why it would have such difficulty playing an already downloaded file is unclear, but I suspect there is some sort of over-aggressive anti-piracy feature interfering with smooth playback. If this is not resolved and the app remains unusable I will have no reason to maintain a subscription..UridiidjeifnVersion: 3.0.7

Please fix audio playlist customisation.I used to love listening to The Economist audio edition until a particular feature was removed. I used to be able to organise my audio playlist in a specific order; the world this week, then the business section, then finance, and afterwards a few select articles chosen among the remaining sections. I was able to go through the edition and organise everything once, then start and stop listening with the confidence that the playlist remained in the order I prioritised. Now whenever I add to the audio playlist it's always ordered in the way The Economist is (The World This Week, Leaders, Letters, etc) and I can arrange the playlist to my priority, which I used to do for the past few years....now I don't even want to bother with The Economist at all since I now have to either keep track of what I listened to manually and/or keep adding/removing to the playlist in order to listen while I'm doing other tasks. Very unfortunate. It would be VERY much appreciated if the feature to customise the order of the audio playlist is made available once again. Thank you..Marc EstwickVersion: 2.10

🐜-riddenObviously this review is for the application performance and not for the content - which is excellent, otherwise I would not pay for a subscription. I have many issues with this app. A tech support representative even admitted to me were legitimate flaws with the iOS version (I finally called Tech Support when I just couldn’t take it anymore) and that they had no timeline of when they would address these bugs. I use the app predominantly for the audio version of the articles because I listen on my commute. Here is a summation of my issues: -Navigation is still terrible (though they did finally add a table of contents menu and a check mark symbol next to articles indicating you’ve finished-I wish this would transfer to the table of contents so I can see at a glance what I’ve read and what I still need to). -Audio download constantly interrupts or just completely fails over WiFi and data. -The Play button is wonky. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Tech support literally told me I would have to start from the beginning of each section every time this happens and then advance through using the fast-forward button. What? -Sometimes the audio playback repeats a sentence or skips a word/paragraph. -I can’t stand some of the voices of the narrators (this is obviously more preference than a flaw) and some of the volumes in which they speak are way too low so I have to turn up my speakers so loud and then be blasted by their jingles when the next article starts. Please fix!.MrsAshworthVersion: 2.8.2

Cancellation process is horrendousThis a good news source. It’s very well done hence the two stars, however 1. It’s really expensive ($220 a year unless you complain and threaten to cancel) 2. I’m not sure what’s harder, a divorce or cancelling this news subscription. First you can’t do this easily on the app you have to go to, “contact us” on the app, look in the FAQ’s where you can then log in. At that point you find, “change my subscription”. There’s a button that says, “cancel my subscription”, you’re asked why, then you’re given a sales pitch in writing based on your reason. In order to move forward with the cancellation you’re required to chat with them! A sales representative joins the chat, then I was asked AGAIN to provide my name and address and why I wanted to cancel, they tried to keep me again by offering a discount. Finally the rep cancelled my subscription. This entire process took me over 20 minutes. Making it that hard to cancel on purpose so people give up and keep giving money is bad business..Mngal20Version: 2.30.2

Much worse than the Legacy appFor months, the Legacy app has been inviting me to download this app. I always resisted (when I had tried, several years ago, the app didn’t allow me to download the weekly edition. I’m not making this up.). They finally forced me to switch. And guess what? I am trying to download the latest issue, to read it on the road (where I have no WiFi), and THE DOWNLOAD DOES NOT EVEN START. I tried everything: quitting the app, switching the iPad off, checking I have enough space… nothing worked. I complained a month ago, and I still have received neither an answer nor an explanation. (To be clear: I can download apps. I can watch videos. I can download large files. The only thing I cannot do is download the print edition on Thursday to read it on my way back home. I complained a month ago and got no answer.) Meanwhile, The Economist just told me the suscription price is going up because of a lot of content I am not interested in. After well over a decade as a suscriber, I am seriously considering to cancel..Alucardi01Version: 4.34.0

Weekly edition has been broken for monthsI challenge anyone on the dev team for this app to try reading the weekly edition. Start at the beginning and reas a few articles. Put it away. Come back in a few hours and pick up in the same place. Wait two days, find your place again, and read some more articles. If they were to do this, they would uncover multiple crippling, infuriating bugs that have gone unfixed for months. Articles will switch while you’re in the middle of reading them, all of a sudden you will go backwards by several articles. The app frequently doesn’t save your place, so every time you open it you need to go back through the table of contents to figure out where you were. This is a significant regression in functionality from how the app used to work, and it’s honestly embarrassing for a professionally produced app to have this many bugs of this severity sitting unfixed for this long. Stop building new features and fix your bugs!.MarmotzeroVersion: 3.43.1

Stick with the legacy app -- 2024 updateIf you want to read the weekly magazine on your phone, this app is terrible. Weird jumps between and within articles—you’ll be reading and suddenly it jumps to a different part of the article or a different article entirely. It also doesn’t keep your place when you leave the app, which the old app did. And it has about 5 times as many ads. The new app also bombards you with notifications you can’t control. The same quality of journalism is there but the Economist should be embarrassed—the content is undermined by a broken experience. Stick with the legacy app. Update Aug 2024: the app is even slower, almost unusably. You open it, you wait, you click an article, you wait, you try to flip to another article, it hangs while it loads an ad, and frequently bumps to the top of an article so it can load an ad. I really want to like this app buts it's so awful vs. the old app. I'm on an iphone 13 pro. This is the slowest app I own..MmmmmmmmyeahyeahVersion: 3.59.0

Consistently buggyI’ve been using the economist app for a little bit over 5 years now and have yet to have a consistent, bug free experience over a month long period. One of the following will generally stop working until the developers patch the app which can take 1-2 weeks: the audio will simply not play (even if downloaded), the app will crash (even if it is the only app open), the editions will not download or downloaded editions will not open, or some combination of all the above. This is not a review for the Economist as a publication, I’ve been an avid reader of the print edition since uni and I will continue to do so. However the lack of consistency with the app is disappointing. All the more troubling is the economist’s decision to move some of their podcasts onto the app for subscribers only which would be sound business decision if the infrastructure (the app they are migrating to) consistently worked..PbjloverVersion: 3.38.0

Needs lots of improvementsEven if I’ve downloaded an issue, the app still needs Internet access. If I download issues and then go on an airplane and reopen the app, it still needs Internet access to show any articles or play any audio — defeating the entire purpose of downloading the issue for offline access. The reason appears to be a combination of bad requirements, coding, and testing. It is a bad requirement to require network connectivity to view an issue or play its audio while offline. Poor coding leads to a terrible outcome since the already downloaded data should be presented to the user even when offline. Lastly, it seems that the testers never tested such use cases while offline (airplanes or elevators/lifts or garages/carparks or anywhere else where network access is not available). I love The Economist’s content. I have also been a user of The Economist app for as long as it has been out, and I continue to be disappointed in its performance..Anurup JosephVersion: 4.83.1

FeedbackThe Economist article on Economics topics are generally of high quality and well documented and researched BUT those on the middle conflict and in particular those presenting facts about the actual events are biased and distorted. They cover up Israel crimes. Fir example when reporting about Gaza, the article don't miss to mention that Gaza is ruled by Hamas. Israel is also ruled by criminals. The article miss to mention that the people in Gaza are under siege and are in an open prison imposed by the racist and criminals ruling Israel. There is no human face of the Economist when reporting about Israel crimes. How do the Economist consider the Oppressed and the eco pied at the same footing as the oppressor and the occupier. "Conflict" is a dishonest way to report in an occupation where a whole generation of a whole nation was destroyed, killed, put in prison, dépréciés of basic human needs and even water just to be racially eliminated and deported from own home to live, if managed to survive, as refugees in foreign lands..Tj56432Version: 3.0.4

App has issuesLove the economist, hate the app. The content and setup is good, but it is incredibly slow and laggy. I download issues to work offline or when I have bad service, but then the app takes 3 minutes to load in bad service areas while it tries to connect. Then there is a huge delay in opening articles and difficulty in getting to downloaded issues unless I open them up ahead of time before or lose service or get on a plane. If you minimize the app for two minutes to answer a text or read an email, there’s a high chance the app will reload from scratch - you’ll have to wait at the red screen of death for a while, then find your article and your place in it all over. Why not remember where we were reading? So slow. So laggy. On every device. Also, I downloaded the whole newspaper for offline - it’s taking enough space on my device that the graphics should load offline..Ryan88382Version: 3.57.0

Great content, but kind of amazing the app can be this badAmazing how many bugs there can be in an app from the journalistic giant The Economist. To take a glaring example, try the back and forward articles buttons. The back button takes you to the previous article rather than the start of the current article, which is weird enough. But completely frustrating is the fact that using the forward button after the back button will first skip to the next article, then the next next article, then to the next next next article. It is actually impossible to listen to the Economist on headphones and page back and forth on articles (e.g. after getting distracted by something) with these limitations. Ideally you’d do what all other magazine apps do and just skip back and forth by 30s at a time, but at the very least don’t make it completely broken..UtkilopnVersion: 4.36.0

A great legacy app, but this new one garbageI put off downloading the “improved” app as long as I could. This week’s issue, however, no longer has an audio option in the legacy app. The new app is unfortunately an absolutely horrendous mess. Much more like a typical website than a magazine or newspaper, every article is cluttered with superfluous links and with suggestions for “related” articles or sites. Worst of all, to swipe from one article to the next, one needs to swipe twice because every article—EVERY SINGLE ONE—is followed by an ad. HALF the issue is ads. Unbelievable! So I have deleted the “improved” app and will continue with the legacy app (sadly with no audio option) until The Economist no longer supports it, then I will unsubscribe. After having subscribed in print or digitally for four decades, I believe. I can’t justify over two hundred dollars a year to read the magazine on such a supremely annoying, ad-stuffed app..JtqxrVersion: 4.23.1

Amazing content, terrible appI love the content - best news source out there. But the app is a nightmare. The audio playback doesn't function at a basic level. There is no ability to skip back or forwards 15 seconds outside of the app (eg, by tapping the skip command on my Airpods or car). Anytime other audio plays, the app fails to start the audio again afterward. When this happens, the whole audio playback on the notification screen often crashes and the app has to be manually reopened. Even when the audio playback is nominally active, it often doesn't respond to commands to play through headphones, etc. All of these features are standard in every audio app I've used on iOS. Given how expensive the subscription is, it's very disappointing that it can't handle basic audio functionality. Yes, I've un-installed and renstalled, my software version of ios and the app is up to date, restarted..1543<3Version: 4.9.1

Bad App ExperienceUpdate April 26: Please bring back the legacy app. The newest versions are still unstable and offer an inferior user experience. Updated March 27: This app continues to be absolutely awful and distracts from the content. Hard to know if it’s spinning for an ad or content. Legacy app was perfect, not sure why we had to move. Consider a new pricing tier that includes access to the legacy app please. Older review: Seeing the continued pleas to stop using the legacy iOS app, it is disingenuous to claim that the new version is better. If you’re going to force us to transition to the inferior app, please include settings that allow us to mimic the legacy app (i.e., one download of the weekly edition, no streaming, no links, no updates - just a digital replication of the weekly print edition). Will seriously consider whether to keep my subscription if forced off the legacy app without a workable solution in place..Anon user reviewVersion: 4.32.0

Bring back the Legacy AppI love The Economist. It is a great newspaper and stays true to its founding mission. I loved the paper edition for all those years before we knew digital. I made the grudging transition to the digital edition. And in reality, it really was just the paper edition on a screen. It looked and navigated like the paper copy you had tucked in a pocket as you boarded your flight, only to pull it out once in your seat. And then someone in marketing, a new product manager I presume trying to make a name, decided it was time for a complete reboot of the app. “Let’s make it a contiguous stream of text”; “Let’s change the way it downloads”….so now I have an app that takes demonstrably longer to download, is unstable and inexplicably decides to remove the download you completed just yesterday. The layout resembles nothing like the newspaper, which I believe was part of the brand. To wrap this up….Bring back the legacy app. Please..Barrington FletcherVersion: 3.26.0

Good magazine, mediocre appI love The Economist, but their app suffers from a number of issues: 1. Even after logging in with a paid subscription, the app demands that you subscribe via a pop-up at the bottom and a permanent link at the top. 2. It logs you out frequently and doesn’t readily accept your information when you log back in. 3. There are minor glitches. 4. There is no search function for articles and so it is an ordeal to go back beyond the current issue to find things of interest, which is extremely annoying and contrary to other media app common practices. 5. When clicking on The Economist articles in social media, it has to jump through Safari and then the app, which takes a few seconds, and sometimes you get stuck in Safari where it pretends you are not a subscriber and... demands that you subscribe before showing you the article that you have paid good money for. 6. The overall layout of the app is not extremely well designed, which requires a lot of clicking to get around and allows one to easily miss even current articles (much less historical articles, which are extremely difficult to find). Too much graphics and repetitive links and links that aren’t relevant and not enough smooth/ seamless connections to other current or historical articles..JhfddvhjufggfffVersion: 2.14

Poor customer support (updated)The content is good and the app is fine except - it has a bug and when I tried to point it out, I received poor responses from customer support. The Espresso section is missing from the app (accessing from iPhone SE in Canada). I pointed it out with all the details about the app three times but the customer support team kept assuming I am wrong (I have the wrong app or that I don’t have the latest version, etc.). Despite me trying to explain they kept assuming I have the wrong info. I was only trying to help but it doesn’t look it I could. Update: clearing cache process (as described by customer support with a reply to my rating) didn’t work..Tanmoy RoyVersion: 1.5

What happenedObviously they didn’t like me still using the classic version reader and cut me off when I tried to download the current issue. If I use the new reader it works but it is as if the art work is done by People Magazine plus I am on a one month trial so I have lost 9 months of my original subscription. I have been a subscriber for 40+ years but not sure I will renew..Mike LatondresseVersion: 4.28.0

Need app for audio edition.Really disappointed I have to use this app to listen to the audio edition. I’m glad they added 1.25x playback speed, but it doesn’t sound right compared to my usual player. It stutters and sounds distorted compared to importing the mp3 edition as an audiobook. Cannot block ads in the app even though I subscribe? I just want to use my web browser and mp3 download. Not a lot of liberty for a liberal magazine. - audio player crashes iOS 14 - audio player often does not remember playback position - cannot easily bring up audio player - audio cannot easily resume without opening the app PLEASE bring back the mp3 download for the audio edition. I will have to cancel my subscription if I cannot listen..Lumpen.Version: 2.30.2

Renewal FruadsterI signed up for a one-year subscription. Without any warning I was charge $360 for a renewal that I never agreed to. I reach out to customer service on the same day and they told me they would not refund the amount. Scam artists. Beware..Phil BlanksVersion: 4.61.0

Great NewspaperI enjoy reading Economist but since the aggression of Israel in Gaza and Iran this year I find your credibility to be less independent as your articles show clearly, so I tend to avoid those parts of your reporting and read other ones..AbyabzyVersion: 4.59.0

Biased PropagandaThe quality has declined significantly these years. Not sure if these UK based “journalists” can even write anything faithful considering the harsh suppression of freedom of speech there. WSJ is much better..Nigger_FagVersion: 4.56.0

Quit prodding me to leave a reviewThe app is fine but once a week roughly in the most obsequious servile way I am asked to leave a review. Well, here it is. One star! Quit annoying your readers..ManduhatterVersion: 4.51.0

Bring Back the “Legacy” App!!!I’ve been ignoring the prompts whenever I used the “legacy” app to read Economist issues online. About to go on vacation and I noticed that the legacy app no longer has the latest issues. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Considering what I pay for a paper & digital subscription, no longer providing a digital version of each week’s issue is an abuse of your subscribers!.KeeloidVersion: 4.47.0

Horrible, never-changing experience (unless the app acts up and decides for you)I held out for as long as possible with the Classic app because it did one thing well. It presented each electronic issue the same as the print version. I tried the newer version over the years and it kept coming up with new ways to fall to fall short of what this long-term reader expects. Today’s surprise was original. I was reading an issue offline and the order of sections was completely messaged up. Whereas a normal issue for this North American subscriber would show … By Invitation, Briefing, United States, The Americas, etc., I was instead presented with By Invitation, Briefing, *Science & Technology*, United States, *Finance & Economics*, The Americas, … *Business* was near at the end of that list. Q: Does the product development team behind the app understand what quality control means/is? Do they actually use the app? Am I exaggerating in thinking that my offline experience is supposed to be the same as the online one? I have commented in the past about the Download Edition function being broken and have seen no improvements with that either..Kenneth TruemanVersion: 4.38.0

Constant Log InsApp randomly logs you out requiring repeated and unnecessary log ins and multi step authentication to access content you are paying for- the wall after the pay wall.Typical Millennial User 1987Version: 4.37.0

Has become significantly left leaningMore focused on wokeism than ever. Opinions of left leaning journalists shamelessly displayed in content. The change from center left to far left happened quickly. Has recently succumbed to complete Trump derangement syndrome. This journal will have a lot of back pedaling to do when trump policies fix North America and the world..VfkjhgbVersion: 4.30.0

Terrible subscription supportUses worst ai bots for customer service. Would not recommend a subscription after my first year. The Libby app used to be better than this formate..T98y98Version: 4.19.0

Don’t down load he new app keep the legacy versionThe new apps is a nightmare. You have to play each article. No easy feat when you’re lie in in be in the dark taking an afternoon rest. For years and years we sent an RSs feed from the MAc in the office to a remote speaker in the bedroom so that my wife could listen while lying down for an hour she can’t see to start the next article, the old way worked, why can’t you leave well enough alone. When you’re chat staff doesn’t comprehend MACs operate on different operating systems from IOS be prepared for an uphill struggle which will end in failure.. As I said keep your old legacy system until they sort this out and after yesterday’s experience don’t hold your breath..HMA444Version: 4.13.0

35 minutes to cancel my subscriptionThey make it impossible to cancel via the app or online so I had to endure their live chat for 35 minutes before it was finally cancelled. Complete waste of time for everyone involved.Pk99999Version: 4.12.0

Too much advertisingI already ready paid the subscription cost, but when I’m using this app, there are still advertisements in between of texts, which is surprisingly annoying. I understand that advertising is the main way of making profit, and I shouldn’t have judge advertising itself, but at least put it at the bottom. Economist is a great magazine, and a great reading experience should be prioritized..UnprofessinlaEcnomistVersion: 2.30.2

UX and adsI like the economist app, it’s easy to use and there’s definitely been solid improvement on the user experience over the years but there’s one major issue that really bothers me and that’s when I am scrolling down an article and tap on the ad by accident. I feel like the position of the ad is set in a way that the user is highly likely to tap on it and be led away to a 3rd party browser. It completely ruins the flow of reading and has in fact become so frustrating that I am taking the time to write a review about it. Can u please fix this :(.LilzouzeVersion: 2.30.2

Terrible User ExperienceFor someone that only wants to read the weekly magazine the new app is just terrible. In your face options to listen. More clicks and a far less attractive page setup. Hopefully I am just reacting to it being very very different. But I don’t think so. I truly hate the new app. The magazine remains exceptional so this is an app only review..Wil12323Version: 2.23.4

Great magazine. Terrible 2020 updateGreat magazine but the recent update makes it awful to use.James lee 00000Version: 2.23.1

Great journalism; garbage appArticles are impossible to find. I sign in to read something I saw promoted elsewhere...and I never do get to read it. Not sure I’ll renew my subscription..SnorbelinaVersion: 2.22.1

Decent content, mediocre appTheir analysis and coverage is generally insightful, although the moral clarity is lacking - they don’t treat all human life and suffering as equal. The app itself is not very good. It takes 15 GB of my phone space!.Kamal42Version: 4.86.0

This app is getting worseWith every update, this app seems to get worse. Now my downloaded weekly issues do not appear when I have no internet. It says the issue is downloaded but no article is visible. So annoying! I pre download issues before travelling and now I cannot read any articles..SNK1980838902Version: 4.85.0

Does Not OpenThe app was never good but now it doesn’t even open. It crashes every time you try to open it.YoyoivoyoVersion: 4.79.0

App no longer workingUnfortunately the app no longer wants to open up. Can this be fixed?.Aerskine23Version: 4.79.0

Don’t force users to give a rating or answer why they don’t like the appI like the app but hate pop-ups. I was just asked if I like the app or not. Clearly a “yes” answer would just lead to more screens asking me to rate the app. However, instead of a “no” allowing the user to get back to reading, it forces the user to submit a reason for not liking the app. Well, you got your answer. Economist has a reputation for being professional & above these tactics. Act like it.Timbo10000Version: 4.75.0

No family sharingIf I buy the paper copy I can hand it to my wife to read but I can’t share my digital subscription with her. Makes no sense IMO..Pidman 124Version: 4.73.0

Laggy scrollingOn the latest versions, scrolling in the Home tab has become very jerky, which makes it hard to use..HistoryUnfoldingVersion: 4.71.0

Not Worth It - Pricey SubscriptionThough I don’t typically download news apps, I read through the reviews and decided to give this app a shot after it had been suggested in a Medium article. I was disappointed to click on my first article, eager and ready, just to be met with the required options of paying either $31.90/month or $319 a year to have access. Given the reviews, it’s not hard to gage that their subscription price is too high for what it’s worth. (Like one review negatively mentioning the AI reader, which should have been a read flag considering there are very many good AI readers I’ve heard, even free ones. That just tells me that this company is cheap or low effort, both red flags for such a hefty subscription price.) While I never got access to the content inside and I’m unable to comment on the claimed award winning journalism, most of the articles aren’t actually new. I scroll Google News frequently, read through many articles, then I do more research on the topics that I’m skeptical on or the ones that interest me. It took around 10 articles of scrolling til I found a unique article, at least unique to me, which was shielded by the disappointment of an overpriced subscription. I don’t think the articles are anything special besides hiring someone with a good resume to write, but there’s many great writers on Medium that go in depth about articles without being $30+ a month. Great writers are not hard to come by these days, but great minds can be. I know I must seem so cheap lol, but I just can’t fathom how this app charges over $30+ per month subscription. The most I’d try is $15, and even that seems a little much for a news app. I was expecting some great features to justify the price, but seriously nothing does lol. Personally, this app was not worth it 👎🏻.IlyPlutoVersion: 4.71.0

Political biasI once enjoyed the objectivity & depth of analysis. Those values appear increasingly deteriorated. Now, I frequently find shallow writings, politically misleading titles and content. I canceled my subscription! Plus: the AI voice in Daily Briefs is TERRIBLE & cheap!.Hevun91Version: 4.67.1

Don’t SubscribeThis app uses every trick in the book to try to keep you from unsubscribing from the magazine. I’m embarrassed to say I fell for it thinking I had unsubscribed only to get billed for two more months before realizing something was amiss. It turns out they use an obscure button at the bottom of the page (which is hard to find as it is) that you have to hit AFTER pushing a button that makes it appear you have confirmed your unsubscribe request. If you don’t hit that you stay aboard for more wasted paper. Then after that they also ask you if you want to cancel the upcoming renewal. Imagine that? They leave the renewal on so it automatically starts billing you even though you’ve unsubscribed. I don’t know how that’s possible - clearly desperate..KillamTOVersion: 4.66.0

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