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Digital Annual
€ 319,00
Digital Monthly
€ 31,90
Podcasts+ Annual
€ 49,00
Podcasts+ Monthly
€ 4,90
One year subscription
€ 299,00
Three month subscription
€ 85,99
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4.78 out of 5
6,663 ratings
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Reviews
News good, app bad!
Ive been a subscriber to The Economist for many years and its my goto place for news. But the app is one of the worst. It still does not even remember where you left off when you exit the app and the navigation is still counter intuitive and not user friendly. Please fix this!
Terrible
Overpriced.
Great info
Great content but we need more control over the storage. How can it be 10gb and not give me the option to remove old editions???
Treasure
Treasured and loved for most of my adult life. I still subscribe to the print edition and very much appreciate what the app also adds. The daily digest is a great summary and always interesting articles popping up. Cameron, Amsterdam
Terrible buggy slow app
As much as I find the content good and informative I have to be honest on how and is the app. It’s taking up to 1 min to open and so buggy and slow to play the Audio. If I want to switch to another article I know it’s gonna pain so I just gave up and let it go in order. Based on last year report economist group closed the year with 376 million in revenue. It really doesn’t take much of the revenue to fit this app. For love of god if u don’t know how to do it please reach out to me I am working in tech and I can make a much improved user experience in fractional of the cost. It’s been this bad for years now plz fix it
Worth the money
Great in depth coverage. Good interface. I’ve been an avid reader for many years
Slow app
The app interacts really slow on iPad. The iPhone version is quick and speedy.
Dark patterns in customer service
It is easy to subscribe but very hard to unsubscribe. Not only is the dedicated customer service portal half broken and hidden away, once you get in contact with them (you are not allowed to just cancel by clicking a button) they will waste your time asking questions and trying to dissuade you.
Quick bug save is needed
After this upgrade the app keep crashing during background audio playback.
Not great
I always used the Apple podcast app to listen to the economist podcast, but now I’m suddenly getting adds shoved down my throat. I’m a paying subscriber and don’t want this. So in order to listen to add free podcast I’m forced to use this app, which is not great. How do I disable auto play next episode in this app?