The Economist - News, Podcasts

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 !?

Wonderful content. Decent layout. But this app really and truly needs an improved development team. Responsiveness is erratic at best, sticky often.

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.

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.

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 Running iOS 17 on and iPhone 13 so it shouldn’t be due to outdated software or old hardware.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.

Recent updates to the app are really bad

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.

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.

Decisions in business and life need up-to-date context. The Economist provides this.

The Economist is the best magazine in the world