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.
Clunk and Hard to use
The app continues to be an abomination, with what should be “basic” features missing. Downloaded issues continue to “spin”; briefly leaving the app results in a long start up load and back to the main page, instead of continuing where left off in the weekly edition. Weekly edition articles have too many links. the previous version of the app was simple, clean, and easy to use. Bring it back!
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Audio gone from most recent app update
Hundreds of articles fed to us about AI yet economist can’t figure out how to update their app without completely breaking it. Great job!
자꾸 업데이트 하라고 합니다
아이패드로 보고 있는데 업데이트를 하라고 합니다. 하려고 보면 업데이트 버튼은 안나오고 “열기” 버튼만 보여요.엡스토아에서요. 어떻개 해야하너요?
Response from developer
Thank you for sharing your feedback, and we are sorry for the issue you've experienced. I request you to uninstall and reinstall the app and this should resolve the issue.
Awful. Bring back the old app
Will sometimes (but inexplicably not all the time) refuse to play downloaded articles when not connected to the internet. I listen to articles while hiking in areas that don’t have cell reception so this is a deal breaker for me. Was not a problem with the old app.
Getting spammy
It’s all getting a bit spammy. The full screen inline ads, the popups asking for notification access, the overlays asking me if I want to listen to some podcast. Dunno, maybe that’s just the way of it. Annoys the hell out of me though.
Thank you for adding Audio Timer!
Thank you for adding Audio Timer!
App logs out constantly
I haven’t been able to use this app at all - it keeps logging me out and freezing when I try to log back in
