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⚠️ The The Economist app has poor ratings and negative feedback. Users seem unsatisfied with its performance or features.
Economist is good news source, but they do not let us chose how to read it. This is digital edition, if I want to read finance and business, let me put this on top, why do I have to dig to get to that. But on daily stories there is nothing, worth reading.
my opinion
I love it, I think it’s a great source of information. I only wish there were an option to higlight the text, or make notes.
Crashed on startup repeatedly, had to reinstall
Consistent problems with the app
RastaChicken
It's a coop APP.
Stick with the legacy app -- 2024 update
If 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.
Lagging
I think it takes 15 seconds for the app to load when opened, then it still freezes when scrolling or opening a news article
Lags so badly
The app is so slow loading even on strong wifi - especially my saved articles - that I become overly frustrated using it. But I love the content enough that it is still one of my most used.
Great publication, buggy and decrepit app
I love the Economist and have been reading for years. I no longer read the print version and use the app instead. For such a prestigious publication, it’s shocking they just can’t make a decent app. It’s been buggy for years and remains so. For the cost of a subscription, it’s inexcusable that this continues. I have the latest iPhone 15 pro max and the Economist app is the only one on my phone that lags and freezes during each use, even just switching articles. At this point, I have no confidence in their digital strategy which is a shame since other publications have had excellent apps for years.
App is glitchy. Print way better.
Have to reboot daily. App cant find article was reading. They send me links for survey that dont work. For news I respect and pay a bunch for the app makes it hard to access. Wish I was as old as I sound.
Slow, Bloated, Terrible
Absolute dogsh*t app. Takes forever to load anything. Glitchy audio. Returns an unexplained error as often as the thing I'm trying to read or listen to. Do better.
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