The Economist - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

Stay informed this election season with the Economist news app. Fact checked, data driven, unbiased journalism covering daily news.

Choose from a variety of news topics: Politics, Business, Technology, Science and more. Find thorough reporting, analysis and informed opinion from our correspondents around the world.

Download The Economist news app today and join the people who know.

Key subscriber benefits
- Full access to The Economist app and economist.com - global and local news updated daily
- The World in Brief - a faster way to understand the stories behind the news
- Economist Podcasts+ - award-winning, noise-cancelling podcasts on a variety of global issues and news events
- Weekly edition - read online, listen to narrated articles or download to enjoy offline
- Audio queue to create a custom listening list of the news
- Bookmarks to save articles to read later
- Easy reading with adjustable text size and dark mode

Full terms of use can be found at https://www.economist.com/legal/terms-of-use
Our privacy policy can be found at https://www.economist.com/privacy

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In-Apps

Digital Annual

R6,499.00

Digital Monthly

R649.00

Podcasts+ Annual

R700.00

Podcasts+ Monthly

R70.00

One year subscription

R5,899.00

Three month subscription

R1,049.99

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User Rating

4.79 out of 5

2,161 ratings in South Africa

5 star

1,811

4 star

287

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2 star

1 star

Ratings History

Reviews

App needs help

Wonderful content. Decent layout. But this app really and truly needs an improved development team. Responsiveness is erratic at best, sticky often.

Great news, dreadful app

It’s absurd to rate an app based on how you feel about its news coverage. That has nothing to do with the technical quality of the app. Unfortunately, this app has gone from passable to poor in recent months. It’s very sluggish on my iPhone 14 Pro Max and iPad Air 5. The implementation of state preservation and state restoration is borderline nonexistent, which means when you return to an article after a few minutes the entire app refreshes and takes you to the homepage. Considering how costly The Economist is, the number of ads is unacceptable. My main gripe is how slow the app is. It’s unpleasant to use and is one of the lowest quality apps I’ve come across from a major news organisation. I expect better from The Economist.

Glitchy app

The app is quite glitchy recently. Articles take long to load, and the app shuts down on its own occasionally. Feels like the app needs to be re-engineered to handle all the data it’s trying to manage and access.

Slow UI

Great newspaper (no issue there), but The Economist App UI is terribly slow. Even pressing the play/pause button for audio articles creates a loading symbol! Running iOS 17 on and iPhone 13 so it shouldn’t be due to outdated software or old hardware. Please improve the app’s server connection or hardware integration. Thank you.

App lags and is slow

Recent updates to the app are really bad

Political Leanings

I love the economist. But I do feel that it is leaning more left as time goes on. All the negative news for these past 6 months have all been regarding right wing politics, and I don’t believe the Economist is painting a picture of the other side. For a newspaper priding themselves on impartiality, this is not the way to go.

Agonisingly slow

V3.26.00 is awful. So slow. Slow to open. Slow for content to load. Slow to respond to any click - app takes 5 - 10 seconds to react to a click on an article or any other navigation link.

Link to the world

Decisions in business and life need up-to-date context. The Economist provides this.

The best

The Economist is the best magazine in the world

High Quality Content - Low Quality Performance

While I can’t fault the quality of the content, the performance of the app has taken a nose dive in recent months. It *consistently* takes more than a minute to download an edition over a 100Mbps WIFI connection and *frequently* fails halfway. This is really frustrating as I usually remember to download an edition as I’m on my way out the door. Playback performance of downloaded editions is patchy, often taking impossibly long for *downloaded* content to start playing, occasionally requiring multiple attempts at stop and restarting playback and sometimes restarting the app, and eventually abandoning listening altogether. No other app on my iPhone has this problem with downloads. Every single other app downloads content (2 hour long, high audio quality podcasts episodes, for example) in the blink of an eye.

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Ranking History

Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
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