Economist

The Economist Newspaper

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About this app

Our global coverage offers distinctive insight and incisive analysis. Start your one month free trial now.*

Each week over 1.5m subscribers trust The Economist to help them make sense of the world and the news. Join them by downloading The Economist app.

The app includes a daily selection of the best of our journalism, along with the full weekly version of The Economist newspaper to read or listen to on the go.

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The Economist is an award-winning, trusted filter on global affairs, offering in-depth analysis of everything from business, finance and politics to science, technology and economics. It covers every region of the world including the United States, Britain, Europe, Asia and Latin America and it excels at big topics, from climate change and sustainability to the future of work and globalisation. The Economist is also available as a weekly magazine.

App highlights:
• Top stories: the latest news analysis combined with highlights from the weekly issue
• Economist The World in Brief: a short morning briefing on the day’s global news
• The Economist weekly edition: full access to the weekly version of The Economist newspaper
• The audio version of the weekly edition to listen to on the go
• A selection of our podcasts, including The Intelligence, a daily burst of illumination from The Economist’s worldwide network of correspondents


App features:
• A morning briefing on the day ahead
• Timely analysis of the world’s biggest news stories, updated by the end of the day
• The weekly edition available from 9 pm every Thursday evening London time
• Audio versions of the weekly edition read by professional broadcasters
• Reading times highlighted on each article
• Bookmarks to save articles for later or create personal reading lists


Subscribing in-app
• Subscribe in-app and take advantage of our introductory subscription offer
• Subscribe in-app and take advantage of our 7-day free trial.
• At the end of the trial, the subscription will automatically renew onto a monthly subscription at the standard price. Annual and quarterly subscriptions are also available in some regions.
• You will be charged in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate as defined by Google. Payment is charged to your Play Store account upon confirmation of purchase
• All subscriptions automatically renew. Your account will be charged 24 hours before the renewal date, at a cost of £19.99/$19.99/€24.99 for a monthly subscription
• You can cancel your subscription from your Play Store account settings at any time but you must turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the end of the current period to avoid being charged again

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Ratings and reviews

The journalistic content and variety are good. However, the app is extremely klunky. It takes ages to load and start. The audio playback does not restart at the position last completed and periodically stops spontaneously, which can be really annoying. In addition, it is impossible to scroll down the list of audio articles in the queue so it is effectively impossible to edit the queue.

It is very heavy on my phone, when the app is running all other apps are very slow. Also the queuing system is not intuitive often the queue list freezes when editing. I preferred versions from a few years ago. Also it takes a long time between articles audio playing. I always have to turn on the screen to go to the next article in the queue, quite annoying

I have loved the Economist writing for years. The app, always meh, has gotten horrible. If I switch to another app mid article, it returns me to the top of the article rather than where I left off. Worse: the new auto download of the audio version makes the app practically unusable. I used to savor each issue. Now I can't even read them.

What's new

- Fix for a crash issue in the previous release
- Fixed an issue whereby Editions were shown as partially downloaded after tracks were downloaded for offline listening
- Resolved a memory leak issue affecting a small number of users
- Improvements to App start up times