The Economist: World News

As much as I find the content good and informative I have to be honest on how and is the app. It’s taking up to 1 min to open and so buggy and slow to play the Audio. If I want to switch to another article I know it’s gonna pain so I just gave up and let it go in order. Based on last year report economist group closed the year with 376 million in revenue. It really doesn’t take much of the revenue to fit this app. For love of god if u don’t know how to do it please reach out to me I am working in tech and I can make a much improved user experience in fractional of the cost. It’s been this bad for years now plz fix it

Great in depth coverage. Good interface. I’ve been an avid reader for many years

It is easy to subscribe but very hard to unsubscribe. Not only is the dedicated customer service portal half broken and hidden away, once you get in contact with them (you are not allowed to just cancel by clicking a button) they will waste your time asking questions and trying to dissuade you.

I always used the Apple podcast app to listen to the economist podcast, but now I’m suddenly getting adds shoved down my throat. I’m a paying subscriber and don’t want this. So in order to listen to add free podcast I’m forced to use this app, which is not great. How do I disable auto play next episode in this app?

Great app, work well and is quite nice to read. However, it can be quite slow and laggy.

The Economist app is very poor and has only been getting worse lately. It’s unresponsive and slow and gets stuck often. The audio playback features don’t work properly. It feels like it’s made by an outsourced company who never use the app themselves. I really expect more from The Economist.

I love The Economist and had been reading it exclusively via an app since I’ve subscribed. The app has all functionality that you would expect from a modern reader with periodic improvements to the UI and the UX. I also especially appreciate noticing that the team behind it is open to feedback and had implemented feature requests and fixes that I was also looking forward too. Thanks, folks!

Over the last few months, it appears as if it has become increasingly difficult to (un)save articles on the iPad. There seems to be a time lag and sometimes the tap is not recognized at all. The problem occurs most frequently when trying to do this in the “weekly” or “saved” tab as opposed to within the article itself.
Also, until a few years ago, saved articles were automatically synced between iPhone and iPad. Could this feature return in the future?

I would like to use the iOS dictionary to look up words, but now I can only select paragraphs.
Would also be nice to see fewer ads.

I love the Economist and the app, however a recent update removed an ability to select text within paragraph, allowing only to copy it in it’s entirety. This is a major breaking change for my routine as I rely on text selection to look up information and definitions. Economist is known for its rich vocabulary and before I could look up words without leaving the app, but now I have to switch back and forth and manually enter the word that I don’t know

App keeps getting better and content is top notch. Only improvement I can think of is having the interactive/dynamic visuals within the app instead of a webpage in the app. Love the new interface of the weekly.

Current release is an absolute bugfest with calls for functions that no longer exist. Whatever happened to testing and where I can get the previous version?

The app (and print version) gives me all the information and news I need and more.
One request though, is it possible to add audio sync functions for multiple devices? I access the Economist Weekly Audio on
multiple device but it never knows where I stopped on another device which is not very convenient.
Thanks

Finally, the order of articles (again) matches that of the print edition of your geographical location, great!

Just installed on iOS16, sadly crashes when using the search to find article (“Time for a party”) (repeatedly)

I went from a regular hard copy buyer, to the online subscription. The fact that I can now read it from anywhere is really compelling. A feature request that I do have is the tracking on the weekly section. I think this is done by cookies, so on the device. I would rather have that cloud stored, so it will be device agnostic.

I loved the app, but once decided unsubscribe, you need to go through the whole quest. First of all, it’s impossible just to do that, you need to go to a chat with a support. And this support asks you million of questions, starting from what article you liked the most and trying to get you to get another subscription.
Never going to subscribe again just because of that, I don’t want to talk to your agentanymore for half an hour to cancel, sorry

Je wil niks missen van The Economist. Maar als je de hele Economist wil lezen, ben je zo een dag kwijt. De voorleesfunctie is dan een uitkomst. Lekker luisteren in de auto, bij het leegruimen van de (af-)wasmachine of terwijl je aan het klussen bent in de tuin of zo. Elk artikel wordt voorgelezen, ideaal om niks te missen.
The Economist is the best paper in the world.