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- Weekly edition - read online, listen to narrated articles or download to enjoy offline
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$375.00
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$3,749.00
Three month subscription
$939.00
Podcasts Monthly
$89.00
One year subscription
$3,999.00
Podcasts Annual
$890.00
Podcasts+ Annual
$890.00
Podcasts+ Monthly
$89.00
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Is The Economist free?
Yes, The Economist is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
Is The Economist legit?
🤔 The The Economist app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
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The Economist has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is $1,377.50.
The Economist is excellent, always with Amazing articules and analysis. Nevertheless, it would be really cool if you could download some articles and podcast for when you are in a long flight. I have limited access to articles before my flight starts
Excellent content and technology
Great publication.
Great analysis, occasionally bad app
Focusing only on the iPhone and iPad app, I would say they made great improvements on speed response and design. But I don’t find anything useful about the Artificial Intelligence they integrated in the search section.
More Audios!
Excellent content, but I would like more audios. Very useful for those of us who only have some time to hear you from our cars in our way to work.
Mehh…
The articles are not bad, but what really bothered me was that for you to be able to cancel your subscription you have go through all sorts of hoops and loops, it literally took me almost an hour to be able con cancel my subscription. Just ridiculous.
Significant slowing down of the app
In the past couple of months, the app has become very bugy, with very slow transitions. I’ve used this app for years, and it’s never been this bad. I hope they release a solution for this because it is an essential source of information for which I also pay quite a lot.
Freezed
The app is very slow, it takes a lot of intents to open an article, it just doesn’t respond to the touch. Very frustrating.
Review of the Economist
I am very happy as the articles are written by the finest pens.
It’s expensive but it’s worth it.
I would give a few more gift articles to spread amongst my friends.
Kind regards Bert Boltjes
Informative and Fun
The only magazine which is optimum subscription cost, very informative and fun to read. My valued hobby is ECONOMIST.
Problem listening to articles
I really like the information of the economist. I am a regular subscriber. Problem is that the app does not allow you to hear most of the articles. Some of us can not read small print or would like to listen while driving or running. Not all the articles have listening options. Most of the most recent ones don’t. And the app does not let you use any other method to listen to them. Please fix this. One option is to record all the articles, another is to use a text to speech software to do so, and a third one is to simply let us select the text and ask the iPhone to read it. Thanks for your attention
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