The Economist - News, Podcasts

I do not recommend. I started following the economist as a young adult and after many years I can tell you they have an agenda. There trick is what they leave out in their analysis and what they make light of. Beautiful writing riddled with propaganda. Will discontinue from today. I feel extremely disappointed and let down.

Investigative journalism at its best

The latest update appears unfinished. The app is not opening on iOS devices.

It provides detailed analysis of world economics.

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.

I think it takes 15 seconds for the app to load when opened, then it still freezes when scrolling or opening a news article

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.

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.

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.

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.