Poor user experience
App crashes frequently. Search function doesn’t work reliably. App hangs
Description
The Economist news app offers 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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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
In-Apps
- Digital Monthly
- 649.00 R
- Digital Annual
- 6,499.00 R
- Podcasts Monthly
- 70.00 R
- Three month subscription
- 1,049.99 R
- Podcasts Annual
- 700.00 R
- One year subscription
- 5,899.00 R
- Podcasts+ Annual
- 700.00 R
- Podcasts+ Monthly
- 70.00 R
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Is The Economist free?
Yes, The Economist is free to download, however it contains in-app purchases or subscription offerings.
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The Economist has several in-app purchases/subscriptions, the average in-app price is 1,954.62 R.
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User Rating
4.78 out of 5
2,184 ratings in South Africa
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Ratings History
The Economist Reviews
Will they ever fix this app
The Economist is a wonderful magazine. This app is a travesty. Slow opening, sticky page transitions … the worst performing app in my collection. Surely someone can fix it !?
Good reporting - buggy app
For a publication so often concerned with technology trends, it should show more care to its own app. Slow and often crashes.
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.
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App Info
- Category
- News
- Publisher
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The Economist
- Languages
- English
- Recent release
- 4.22.1 (6 hours ago )
- Released on
- May 3, 2018 (6 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, India, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR China, Sweden, South Korea, Belgium, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Ireland, New Zealand, Denmark, Taiwan, South Africa, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Chile, Malaysia, Colombia, United Arab Emirates, Türkiye, Finland, Greece, Thailand, Romania, Russia, Peru, Czechia, Luxembourg, Israel, Argentina, Philippines, Hungary, Indonesia, Ukraine, Vietnam, Lithuania, Croatia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Pakistan, Slovenia, Malta, Latvia, Egypt, Cyprus, Nigeria, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Ecuador, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Bahrain, Dominican Republic, Azerbaijan, North Macedonia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Nepal, Brunei, Tunisia, Algeria, Madagascar
- Last Updated
- 14 hours ago
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