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The Economist Newspaper

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About this app

We offer noise-cancelling journalism, deciphering the global news and trends beyond the headlines.

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

What the heck is going on with the audio queueing interface. It was so good when you could just 'build queue'. For the last month or so has been variously less useful, and now has reverted to its least useful form where you cannot clear or build a queue, just play at each article. Why????

5 stars for the content. 1 star for the app. It seems like this app always has _something_ wrong with it. If I want to view content pass the paywall in the chrome browser, the app wants to hijack login and never works with handoff back to the browser. The app gets sluggish at times, especially with bookmarking. Audio playback drops out for random reasons, even when I've downloaded the content locally. Trying to play audio while doing anything else also seems to randomly stop as well.

Excellent content ruined by mediocre app experience. Over multiple iterations of the app it has become ever more slick and graphic oriented, at the expense of audio usability. Navigating audio content is so tiresome now I find myself avoiding using the app (returning after a few weeks away and I'm reminded of frustration) and so I'll likely not renew my subscription. Updated review to 1 star as it seems that's the only way to get publishers attention. Fix the navigation, you're not a monopoly.

What’s new

We've refined the search results display for a clearer experience, and tackled a number of bugs to boost app stability and performance.