Espresso from The Economist

An essential item of my breakfast. Very good selection of articles offering worldwide coverage. You get global coverage in less than 15 minutes.

Very well structured

...lots of bugs, especially in the notifications which are received several times a day, even if the content is already read. Connectivity issues quite often. Context-wise, interesting topics and condensed-written but for an app with a monthly fee, someone would have expected AT LEAST the double amount of info chunks rather than five.

I needed a slim news experience that avoids the hang wringing or triumphalism in a lot of news coverage. The espresso app scratches that itch!

The app has a setting to select text size but this slider does not appear to do anything.

Am now 25 minutes into trying to cancel my subscription. Ridiculous.

I have always loved the economist espresso, but it’s audio version is horrifically buggy. Whenever you open the app, it still plays the edition of an old (vs current) day and you need to shut down and re-open the app multiple times in order to get to the latest current version. Sometimes, even that doesn’t work - please fix!

Literally the product manager on this should be a case study on how not to design a product. If you quit the app early, you’ll lose the ability to go back

I tried the trial and didn't find it valuable. So I went to Manage My Subscription and tried to cancel. They make it VERY DIFFICULT! They go back and forth using what appears to be a chatbot. They ask you why you're cancelling, over and over. They offer you upgrades. They offer you discounts. Back and forth, back and forth - even tho with each reply I just played "broken record" with them and simply replied, "No. Just cancel." Over and over. Finally, they cancelled. What should have taken one minute took about 15 (including an aborted first attempt because their site wouldn't register my responses that time and I had to start over). I am surprised. I thought The Economist would hold itself to higher standards.

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to read the morning roll-up of the news in German. I have long trusted the Economist‘s fact based reporting, deep analysis, and relatively unbiased journalism.