4.84 out of 5
931 ratings in Thailand
I am usually an avid reader of the Economist but this latest update of the application is driving me to seriously cancel my subscription. Unlike the previous versions, articles on the app take many seconds to load; buttons are unresponsive; and the audio player simply doesn’t work. Now it is just a pain to use the application. The app used to be a bright spot of the subscription but I am not sure if this is still the case.
I have been a loyal reader for more than 20 years. I love the content but the app is very poorly done. Too many ads unresponsive buggy and crashes constantly. It’s barely functional. Please fix it.
Almost stopped reading the paper from my iPad because of the poor user experience after a recent update. The layout became too narrow with to much empty space on the sides, what is event more frustrating is that I don’t have any control over the layout. Big disappointment. Hope it will be improved.
I subscribed via the Legacy app and have been trying to migrate to the new app but could not find my currently subscription in the new app. Spent an hour chatting with the Economist team and found out that they do not have my current subscription(and probably the payment), which is impossible because i did renew my subscription on Itunes and can still access my new issues on the Legacy app. They told me to contact iTunes as they cannot do anything, which is unbelievable. It is clearly the company’s internal problem.
I have been using The Economist iOS app for 10 years, primarily for audio consumption. Incredibly the audio service has gotten worse since then, with this version of the app the absolute worst. The old app used to allow each article and section to be downloaded easily for offline use. This version has no such control, has extremely buggy playback, and for a time, did not allow playback of downloaded audio without an internet connection - defeating the purpose entirely! I currently only use this app on iPad, and thankfully am still able to use the legacy app for audio on iPhone.
The Economist has been my source of information and ideas for more than three decades.
I love listening to the stories especially while on my treadmill. It would be really nice if there’s a feature with playlist that plays the audio of only the articles I have bookmarked in an issue.
Quality content. Worth for what you spend!
In general, this version is better than the previous ones. One problem is when I read on the plane without internet access, it will ask me to subscribe or to log in. So I just can’t read the magazine!
Dear the Economist, I love the app. It’s one of my main sources of outside world knowledge. Keep the good job! However, i still think that the layout of the content on iPad and the font size choices are not good enough. The layout, especially the horizontal orientation, should adopt the website version. The text doesn’t have to spread all over the width of the page. For the font size, i’m more happy with the web version. The iPad version is either too small or too big. Hope to see more improvement. Great app nonetheless.
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