Too many adverts: subscription cancelled.
Like so many others have noted, the adverts have become intrusive on the app. Subscription cancelled.
AI narration is bad
The AI narration is irritatingly bad, mispronouncing too many words
Audio totally ruined
Audio playback has been ruined with the recent update. Before, you could start playback at any article and it would play it and all following articles in sequence. Now it plays one article and stops. If there is a queue, it will instead jump to the next article in the queue. And there is no way to delete the queue. Audio playback is impossible for me to use.
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Basic State Preservation
I’ve been a loyal, paying subscriber for years. I have no complaint about the journalism but the iPad app has had, for as long as I have subscribed to it, a critical engineering flaw that degrades the daily reading experience: it loses my place constantly.
If I click away from the app even briefly to check an email or take a note and return, the app reboots and dumps me straight back to the Home page. My active article, scroll position, and reading progress are completely lost.
It appears recent updates have prioritized adding new feeds, audio, and media formats, which to be honest are of limited interest to me, over basic core stability. Feature expansion is an understandable marketing focus but not when basic state preservation is missing.
Please ask your engineering team to fix background state preservation in the next software update so subscribers don't have to hunt down their article every time they multitask on iPadOS.
Largely drafted on AI but heartfelt.
If I click away from the app even briefly to check an email or take a note and return, the app reboots and dumps me straight back to the Home page. My active article, scroll position, and reading progress are completely lost.
It appears recent updates have prioritized adding new feeds, audio, and media formats, which to be honest are of limited interest to me, over basic core stability. Feature expansion is an understandable marketing focus but not when basic state preservation is missing.
Please ask your engineering team to fix background state preservation in the next software update so subscribers don't have to hunt down their article every time they multitask on iPadOS.
Largely drafted on AI but heartfelt.
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Latest update has broken the app
Now crashes on starting, even after deleting and reinstalling.
Worked fine until recently
I've been using the app for a while and while it has been buggy at times, it mostly worked ok. However as of the last couple of days, it's been crashing every time I try to open it, updating my iOS version did not help. I suspect the latest version is broken, if by chance any Economist app devs read this, please fix your app.
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Biased
I’m a political atheist, and I can’t stand that most media is biased towards one side instead of presenting both sides as part of the same problem.
In the case of The Economist, the left-wing bias is blatant. Bring back journalism, please.
In the case of The Economist, the left-wing bias is blatant. Bring back journalism, please.
No longer runs on iOS16
…which is the most recent OS that runs on my device. Why should I have to buy a new iPad to read The Economist? I now have a paid subscription for content I can no longer access. Boo.
Privacy screen is broken
On both iOS and Android my Economist app stops at the privacy screen. However, when I choose to manage privacy the toggle control does not render
[Update] And after I described the issue here, the Economist wanted me repeat the exercise and file a bug report — instead of creating a bug report and letting me just add any required details to it.
I pay the Economist, they don’t pay me.
[Update] And after I described the issue here, the Economist wanted me repeat the exercise and file a bug report — instead of creating a bug report and letting me just add any required details to it.
I pay the Economist, they don’t pay me.
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Economist app is appalling bad
Every time I want to read the Economist on my phone, I am prevented from doing so by the app. Every time it tells me I need to update the app and I press the update now button it puts me onto the update app page, but when I press the open button on that page it returns me to the update now page, and so on ad infinitum. Is it possible to fix this?
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wtf
почему здесь все платное? я понимаю, что это долгий труд многих людей, который нужно оплачивать, но..
вообще приложение очень красивое!! прям очень. мне, как иностранцу, изучаемого английский, читать его было бы очень интересно, я уверена. но почему за все надо платить(((( хотя бы напишите здесь, что оно платное, чтобы такие же бедолаги не повторяли моих ошибок
вообще приложение очень красивое!! прям очень. мне, как иностранцу, изучаемого английский, читать его было бы очень интересно, я уверена. но почему за все надо платить(((( хотя бы напишите здесь, что оно платное, чтобы такие же бедолаги не повторяли моих ошибок
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AI Weekly -or- The Contrarian
AI Weekly -or- The Contrarian
The Economist should change its name to one of the two above titles.
There is so much AI propaganda, it may take up to 50% of the publication.
They also seem to consistently take a contrarian approach to anyone that has gained power… not just Trump.
The publication no longer feels centrist, seems to lean left in some opinions, right in others, and promotes policies that would be ruinous to the human race long term. It has increasingly felt more like propaganda than proper journalism.
Personally, I will no longer pay for propaganda, but I’ll give two stars for the Espresso reporting on daily news, which actually seems to be lifted and adapted from BBC and Reuters.
The Economist should change its name to one of the two above titles.
There is so much AI propaganda, it may take up to 50% of the publication.
They also seem to consistently take a contrarian approach to anyone that has gained power… not just Trump.
The publication no longer feels centrist, seems to lean left in some opinions, right in others, and promotes policies that would be ruinous to the human race long term. It has increasingly felt more like propaganda than proper journalism.
Personally, I will no longer pay for propaganda, but I’ll give two stars for the Espresso reporting on daily news, which actually seems to be lifted and adapted from BBC and Reuters.
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Privacy screen is broken
On both iOS and Android my Economist app stops at the privacy screen. However, when I choose to manage privacy the toggle control does not render
Economist app is appalling bad
Every time I want to read the Economist on my phone, I am prevented from doing so by your incompetent and disfunctional app. Please fix this so I can actually read the articles without constantly having to surmount the inadequacies of your IT.
Scam packages
I downloaded the economist to listen to the elon interview. I clicked the video and it asked me to pay $7. I paid then clicked the video. It asked me to pay another $7.60. It’s not a lot of money overall so I paid. Now i am being asked to pay 24.08 to potentially watch the full interview
Great content but the app needs work
The Economist has excellent written ad audio content, but the app is sorely missing customizability. I have a few select topics I care about, but the app has no good way to focus on those. There is a topics section in the FYP but it is out of the way and difficult to manage. It feels like an app stuck 15 years in the past.
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One of the worst apps
I’ve given up counting the number of times the app displays “something went wrong…”. It’s probably the worse app I’ve ever used. The economist seems to be complacent or incompetent.
Liberal editorial bias, no real economic diversity
The Economist markets itself as independent and centrist, but the coverage is consistently left-leaning and heavily weighted toward Keynesian economics. There’s little space for alternative perspectives like Austrian economics, supply-side theory, or genuine classical liberal thought. Most issues present progressive policy solutions as the obvious answer and frame skepticism of government intervention as backward.
For a publication that claims to value “free thinking,” it’s remarkably narrow in which economic schools it takes seriously. Austrian economists and their critiques of central banking get dismissed or ignored. Supply-side arguments barely get fair treatment. If you want actual editorial diversity and intellectual rigor from multiple economic perspectives, you won’t find it here.
I’d respect The Economist more if it was honest about its ideological leanings instead of pretending to be the rational, centrist voice. Real independence means genuinely engaging with competing ideas, not just Keynesian orthodoxy.
For a publication that claims to value “free thinking,” it’s remarkably narrow in which economic schools it takes seriously. Austrian economists and their critiques of central banking get dismissed or ignored. Supply-side arguments barely get fair treatment. If you want actual editorial diversity and intellectual rigor from multiple economic perspectives, you won’t find it here.
I’d respect The Economist more if it was honest about its ideological leanings instead of pretending to be the rational, centrist voice. Real independence means genuinely engaging with competing ideas, not just Keynesian orthodoxy.
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Hassling about the same settings every time
Every time I open tje iOS app, it again asks to confirm privacy settings, likely because it does not like my settings - resets them to be more permissive settings. Tired of manually intervening every time.
Werbung in der paid version. What.
Wie kann es sein dass überall Werbung ist. Obwohl man für das Abo zahlt. Ich versteh es wirklich nicht, das geht garnicht.
Response from developer
Thank you for providing your feedback. The Economist business model blends subscription revenues and advertising sales which are used to fund our editorial team of over 250 journalists around the world and enables us to invest in new and improved ways to distribute our journalism. We have worked hard to ensure that the user experience remains as smooth as possible. Your feedback is valuable, and we will pass this onto the team so we can continue to improve the customer experience.
