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The Economist Newspaper

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About this app

Stay informed this election season with the Economist news app. Fact checked, data driven, unbiased journalism covering daily news.

Choose from a variety of news topics: Politics, Business, Technology, Science and more. Find thorough reporting, analysis and informed opinion from our correspondents around the world.

Download The Economist news app today and join the people who know.

Key subscriber benefits
- Full access to The Economist app and economist.com - global and local news updated daily
- The World in Brief - a faster way to understand the stories behind the news
- Economist Podcasts+ - award-winning, noise-cancelling podcasts on a variety of global issues and news events
- Weekly edition - read online, listen to narrated articles or download to enjoy offline
- Audio queue to create a custom listening list of the news
- Bookmarks to save articles to read later
- Easy reading with adjustable text size and dark mode

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Ratings and reviews

Not reviewing the journalism here. The app continues to dissapoint. Loads slowly, doesn't respond to taps, scrolling is a disaster. When moving from mobile data to WiFi the whole app seems to want to reload, even if you are reading downloaded content. I could go on. Worst app experience I have by a long mile. Updating my review in mid 2024, given how totally unusable this app is, I have decided to cancel my subscription. What is the point of buying a service if it cannot be used?

Update after 2 years: Good: fewer crashes. Bad: still horribly laggy & unresponsive (saving / unsaving articles & returning to the article list take seconds to react), links to articles open in browser instead of inside the app, audio player extremely bare bones, app does not remember where I left off & greets me with a loading screen almost every time, saved list does not sync between devices. Love the content, but this alone does not warrant more than 2 stars.

Looks better than the last two apps, BUT the app is overloaded with adds. It was OK to have them on a single page, where you can swipe through (like in the old Economist and the Espresso apps, as well as in the physical newspaper). But having those adds in each of every article between the text is unacceptable! I'm not paying that much money for a subscription to get inundated with adds. Change that ASAP.

What's new

Bug fixes and improvements