The Economist: News analysis

Excellent comment as usual and great to integrate the daily and weekly news. However, serious performance issues when loading pages, takes a long time to load both text and images. Also automatically switches to dark mode every night and has to be manually toggled off each time. This happens when "night mode" is activated, same thing happens with Keep app.

The updated app is pretty rubbish, reducing functionality from the previous app (full offline functionality) to something that resembles the website, albeit with cached text, but clunkier navigation than before. Without an internet connection images don't load. It's sort of like using a single page web app. I don't understand why this app exists at all.

Your reporting skills are unmatched! As for the application, overall it's very good but it is buggy sometimes when I am using the audio streaming service with other apps that are already open on my phone (such as spotify). keep up the good work. Update 2022-05-27: its is less buggy now and I see a difference in the changes you guys made. Good job:) Also, It would be nice if we could prioritize certain articles over others during our listen (like adding them to a queue). Keep the good work up.

Inexplicably the app is getting worse. In 3.10.01 it completely forgets what you were reading in the weekly edition between visits so you have to navigate from the home page & have to remember where you were before you see any cues. I guess the weekly edition is the next thing to go. Back to paper fir me then. Still very difficult to swipe to next article. Graphics are brighter than legacy app but smaller (only 80% screen width). Inexplicably landscape mode is denied (unlike legacy app) & so on.

Great content, but the app is terrible and needs some serious investment. - the audio doesn't play in order or the articles you have saved - you can't reorder which articles you want to listen to - there's no way to sort articles by engagement so that you can prioritize what to listen to - the app is less laggy than before, but still fairly slow

This app really needs an app-feedback/report bugs link- this is the only place to report problems: Two issues: 1) clicking on story notifications often opens the app to whatever story was already open rather then navigating to the correct story. 2) clicking on a story notification usually loads the home page first before loading the relevant story - this is confusing and problematic on slow internet connections, as it takes a long time to load the home page, only to discard it.

I love the Economist. I hate this broken app. The "legacy" app was perfect until the Economist kneecapped it by making me log in every time I opened it. Here are the bugs that make it unusable. 1. As I'm scrolling down the page, suddenly an entire paragraph gets selected for copying. That pushes the entire window down from where I was reading. I have to tap again to unselect, then scroll up to find my place. This happens 1 or 2 times per article. 2. If I hover my finger too long over the screen (like more than a second), it turns on a block of magnification. This leaves a block of text about the size of a word in the middle of screen. There is no way to undo this other than closing the app and starting over. It looks like the app is turning on accessibility features that I have turned off. This happens on none of my other 100 apps including the Economist Legacy app, so it appears to be bugs in this app rather than a phone (google pixel) problem. App has been uninstalled, reinstalled, cache cleared, etc. multiple times with no improvement. Beyond that, I find the navigation annoying and far less user friendly than the legacy app. Maybe I'm old school, but I like reading the pub from leaders to obit. There is no way to keep my place and start again from where I was. Each time I open the app, I have to navigate to the weekly edition, then scroll through the articles to find where I left off. The legacy app would automatically open to the last article I read and that was far better. Please fix this app. I love The Economist. I really want to read it.

The Economist itself is stellar, both with regard to content, and in the audio edition the quality of their readers. The app continues to be a major problem, most recently because it is so slow. When you push a button, nothing will happen for several seconds, if you're lucky, or otherwise for a minute or more -- There's no way to tell if the program has frozen, is loading something, or ....?? I love The Economist, but I hate this app!

Content is excellent, so I will comment on two things I would like to see in the app. First, please support dual screen devices. When I try to use both screens like a book on my surface duo, the screen rotates so it is not usable. Would be nice if you use a screen ux model like kindle or infinity app. Second, it would be nice if the excellent narration of articles is accompanied by accessibility features like highlighting the word or sentence being read. Other than that, this is brilliant.

I prefer the legacy app, in spite of it becoming increasingly inconvenient to use - I have to log in every time now. That said, this new app is user unfriendly. Download on the legacy app takes 10 seconds. This app takes 2-3 minutes. Likely because it's downloading the audio too, but I don't want it! Should be a way to set the download to be text only, audio only, or both! The legacy app will auto-rotate the screen which makes viewing Kal's cartoon better. Not so this app. Delete.

Bring back legacy app support! The legacy app was much better. This app is bloated and takes forever to load, with no settings available to adjust this. Providing pointless animation and making it difficult just to read the weekly edition are mistakes. Text sizing is also often inconsistent in the same article. Reading the downloaded edition without cell reception is practically impossible.

The previous app was better. The new app is less easy to navigate (can't swipe left and right to move artiicle) the articles are presented in a different order from tbe print edition, it takes longer to download a weekly issue, it takes more taps to get to read a particular weekly edition, intrusive popups.

My subscription from the legacy app is not transferring to the new app. Multiple emails and calls have still not resulted in a solution... Evidently, the issue is only with those who subscribe to The Economist via Google Play and not for those who do it directly. Awful imementation if they don't care to make the experience seamless for all subscription sources!

I love the content (90% of the time). Listening to articles is a fantastic feature. Though would have liked to edit the queue. But there is something very strange with the apps. Saved articles are not synced to my iPad. So I either have to search for them again or send the links to myself. Also, in the last few weeks (maybe months) scrolling between "the world in brief" pages has become rather unpleasant and requires a few tries.

I can no longer recommend the app. The content remains excellent as a source of news and in-depth analysis. Editorial are clearly marked, another reason that I trust the information presented; I know what size and shape of salt with which to apply to the information. The I am so disappointed in the new version of the app. On my tablet the only choice is a portrait view, and the right side of the page is clipped. If I want to read a story, I have to adjust the font size up and down to alternate the paragraph wrapping in order to see most of the words. This gets old very quickly. I shared this using the app feedback and, in a survey, including my email address; the app did not change and I received no response. Again, the data is great, the app is broken badly.

I particularly like the option to listen to the story instead of having to read it. Sometimes, I listen to the news while driving when I obviously cannot read. This is my go to app to read during the night because it has a dark mode unlike other news apps. Someone also mentioned how the app tells you the articles that you already read and I have to agree that's nice.

By far, my favourite press app. It provides some simple features that others don't seem to understand. If I had the money for it, I'd buy the print version of the magazine. But I don't, so the next best thing is to be able to find all articles in the print edition in a single place, with great layout (screen wide in vertical mode in tablet), and with a checkmark over articles I've read. Saving the current issue for offline reading is also great.

Ha, they got me again. I figured I had not tried the app in a while and it MUST have gotten better but no Terrible, how can you screw up the audio part so bad? Does not remember where you are, difficult to change story and can't download specific stories. Edited - tried coming back to the app 2 years later thinking it MUST have improved. No, still absolutely terrible. Literally sending MP3 files over email would be more user friendly. Content is fantastic, which makes it all the more frustrating

Dreadful. Keeps jumping to ads. Can't find articles or sections Used to be very easy to read. I am having to go back to my paper copy. A huge step backwards. Continual exhortations to download the new app, which if obeyed, turn out to be the same app already using. I seem able to read only the obituary and one leading article. This is the worst app I have ever used, and this comes from a man who loves the magazine. The worst part is that it used to be a perfectly good app

The journalism is excellent, this review concerns the android app. There are two main complaints I have currently : 1. Swiping between articles has become more difficult as of a few months ago. I thought that may have been my ageing device but have now experienced this on multiple phones. One ends up either scrolling up and down or exiting. 2. Changes in WiFi or Internet connection status results in the article going blank. Very irritating on trains with poor signal.

I am very content to read the weekly editions on the Legacy app. But I am relying more on this new(er) app to get more contents & updates, especially since the invasion of Ukraine. The app is still buggy but improving. I've also started listening to the articles. But some of the "article readers" are reading too fast & don't pause long enough between sentences. It's hard to digest the content. I hope the Economist would pay more attention to this to make the audio experience more pleasant.

What I want was to read the weekly magazine in my phone in the subway during my daily commute. I still don't understand how difficult can it be make make an application work offline. Even though you download the edition, it still crashes and tries to show the commercial and you lose where you are reading the article. You have just one job to do! Just do your job! No one cares your fancy tabs, buttons or pages. Just give me a break and make the legacy app usable. You have made such a terrible app

Slow and clunky, can't disable audio downloads, and auto-download of weekly issues doesn't work in the background (worked fine with old app). The new app definitely looks good, but needs to be faster and work better in the above areas. Definitely needs more options for the user to tweak themselves, e.g. only download text and images (no audio). Will happily update score if these issues are addressed.

Disappointing. Given the cost you'd hope for a really slick user experience but: • the text is too large (even on the smallest setting); I don't want to make every other app smaller to compensate • there are trackers and advertisements, with no option to opt out—even if you wanted to pay extra • the UI itself is clunky and looks unfinished; for example, a carousel UI but swipes only work over text (not pictures) A shame, as the journalism is really good.

Great content, terrible app for its audio functions. Over the years, I've submitted bug reports for the same issues, but they are never fixed: 1. Download audio randomly disappeared 2. No warning when the audio files have been lost and the app would switch the streaming (costs mobile data) 3. When the app wakes up after a long pause, it sometimes get stuck on the same starting track Hope the Economist hasnt spent too much money on this app. Time to ask PodKicker (free app) how to do it right.

this new app is just terrible for such a great news source I've read for decades. at a minimum, it should have an option to download new editions when they come out. having to hit one at a time and somehow wait upwards of 60s for a teeny tiny download is insane. I can download an entire feature film to watch offline faster.

Nice app... but it's hitting me with seven notifications of new articles a day, roughly one an hour during the working day! This is a ridiculous rate unless the sky is falling (I'll get to them when I read the weekly edition anyway), and the app provides no tools to customize what it notifies about, nor does it group notifications into categories, so all I can do is apply a big hammer and turn them all off.

An App sliding back in time. Each week brings new bugs, broken functionality and mounting frustration. This week the audio pauses after each article like a pop ad from the 90s. Last week connecting your headphones meant the app crashing because Bluetooth is still a new standard isn't it? Want to leave feedback within the app? Not invented yet.

Best news app. The exclent content you expect from The Economist delivered in an immersive app reader that has controls to make reading more pleasant: dark mode, continuous scrolling, ads that are non invasive, check marks to keep track of articles you have read, and recently, ability to share a limited number of articles. Keep the good work!

Audio playback is horrible. It is impossible to jump back to the part you left. Some tracks already played are not marked as played, thus impossible to not repeat already played tracks (very very annoying!). For a price of almost EUR 300 yearly subscription you could do better, dear Economist. The content is perfect though.