Your content is very current, very relevant, informative , gives an all round view of global affairs in summary. It’s easy to use.

The three stars refer to the app, not its content (that deserves 4.5 at the very least). It’s a fairly good app but there’s a few things that could improve its usability. 1) Choose default view: home updated daily or the weekly issue. Some of us find it more digestible and enjoyable to approach the Economist as a weekly publication-as it started 2) Enhance the Saved section: there’s too much content to be consumed, and it’s the kind you want to consume slowly and methodically. The saved section is great but too simple to help readers plan their ‘digestion’. It would be great to be able to sort saved articles, add tags or have sub folders, or at the very least: get info on how many articles/reading time are saved currently, how much read, how much to read. But most importantly sync across devices!!! I currently keep re saving from the web and from my phone app and then again from the iPad app. Not very friendly 3) Queue or save episodes to listen to 4) Delete old downloaded issues to prevent the app from storing too much data These are just some ideas or requests. Other than that the app is largely great, but not as great as its content

Life without the economist is life without perspective

I have been reading the economist for over 10 years and an ardent annual subscriber. It is “my go to place” for analysis and research as well other papers . I have not given it a 5 star because it is becoming more of a left leaning opinion paper rather than a fact based analytical publication. You would never have thought Boris, Trump or Brexit would happen just by reading it. We know the editor has an opinion but that should not be so overbearing that it overshadows what is really happening.

So frustrated with all the feature regressions in the new app.

The magazine is wonderful. The app used to be too. But the new version doesn’t allow you to read an issue linearly - it prompts you to jump around. Downloaded content disappears making offline access problematic. And it’s hard to know which articles you’ve read. Please go back to the old version.

The Economist doesn’t need my endorsement of the quality of their journalism. It speaks for itself. Rather, I’ll comment that their app is wellAdesigned and refreshing to use. Their developers have made large leaps in the past several years to make the interface less buggy and more focused. I love being able to easily download entire editions, listen to articles with real narrators, and search for past articles. I have no complaints. Some uses complain of the ads, but I’d encourage you to hold your criticism. Media companies cannot survive on subscription fees alone—that’s been largely true since their inception. I suppose that makes me an ad-apologist, but if these ads enable the high-quality journalism we all love, then I feel we should grin and bear the ads. And for what it’s worth, I’ve never found the ads to be particularly distracting.

First it has no memory: I am unable to resume reading from where I left: when I switch or walk away from an article and come back, it resets to main window. Yes I remember what I was reading earlier today but it is annoying to refind from main window. This app is supposed to be the reader of the newspaper. Second, the audio option has many bugs: e.g: you can’t even see the queue. You say “clear the queue” but it does not. When you build audio queue the sequence from the newspaper is not followed (US section should not begin with Lexington column). I did stick with the Legacy app-was much better- and the Apple Podcast option (no longer available). It sounds like this app developer never finished the project since at least 3 years…

Nothing against the content, it’s good, but the app testing experience is not becoming of the publication’s reputation. No guidance, no feedback, and no thanks. What was I supposed to look at? No idea. Was any of the bugs or commentary I submitted appreciated? Clearly not. Will I be doing this again? Nope. This is not how one should treat users who volunteer to help

I have a multi year subscription. The app had been working fine, then all of a sudden it doesn’t recognize me. The print edition is still coming in but completely lost digital access. The UI is silent on what happened or how to recover.