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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

The Economist is a great publication. Whoever they have operating their app is not competent. This app constantly malfunctions. The usability is complete garbage. There are long delays between clicking on an option and something happening. Often, the entire system does not work. Maintaining a subscription with an academic discount is a constant hassle requiring literal hours on the phone.

The usability of this app is terrible as others have noted. Today, a new problem: trying to swipe to read the paper in order is not possible. It takes you to some random article, instead of the next article. So you have to back out to the issue contents after every article. This is in addition to: unresponsiveness, slow loading of the issue contents every time, not remembering your past location (as you used to). The absolute worst Android application I've ever seen.

I have read the Economist for nearly 10 years, and I thoroughly enjoy and respect the journalism, but the apo UX is bad. The biggest problem is that if not finished with an article, when you close and reopen the app later, it refreshes, opens the landing screen, and your place in the article you were reading is lost! And worse - the article can no longer be found, since it has been replaced by new content on the landing screen. I have more complaints, but this is the worst issue I've found.

What's new

Bug fixes and improvements