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Stay informed this election season with the Economist news app. Fact checked, data driven, unbiased journalism covering daily news.

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

Full terms of use can be found at https://www.economist.com/legal/terms-of-use
Our privacy policy can be found at https://www.economist.com/privacy

What’s New

Version 4.11.1

We've been working hard to make the app even better. This update includes:

- Fixed article layout issues on iPad

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
2.9K Ratings

2.9K Ratings

Yogi Conor ,

Excellent app, fantastic articles, audio is a fantastic feature

First of all - I was reluctant to get this app at first because some were saying that when you cancel the economist won’t allow you to. But I chanced it because these guys are not as leftie as most of the MSM and I was hungry for real news . When I subscribed through iTunes or apple sub ( whatever it’s called now) at the very very end I did not create an account with the economist because I reckon that’s the trap - where they phone up people that cancel and give them a hard time.

I reckon I’m safe with trustworthy people like apple who will let me cancel whenever I want. But I plan to keep it going. I’m sure I will cancel and subscribe a few times over the years.

The economist is a great magazine- I love it. There is so much information and I think the audio feature helps when you are on the move and can’t read. I would highly recommend subscribing- use apple and at the end do not create an account with the boys or you’ll be caught and you’ll be sorry.

Great magazine - so much to read.

Rfallon ,

Buggy app

The biggest issue for me is that when on 4G and playing audio, the app reports ‘Something went wrong’ and doesn’t play. Sometimes it works but usually not. It means that you can only reliably play audio when on WiFi. Also the navigation links on the top disappear and can be hard to make reappear. I’ve raised these concerns with the Economist but it remains an issue.

0044512 ,

Big SW Bug - Great app and news, but how do I clear storage!

Great news and app is good. But it now consumes 14GB of my iPhone. I’ve removed all back issue audio but no luck. Do I have to delete and reinstall the app 😩

Found the bug in your software, if editions are not 100% downloaded then you cannot remove vi the three dots, it doesn’t show as anything is downloaded. So you have to tap into every issue and delete the audio manually. Just Weber through 50+ back issues and deleted, many at 99% downloaded. Can you please fix this bug and get better WA engineers.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for leaving us a review and I'm sorry to hear you have been experiencing slowness in the app. We’re currently working to resolve this and hope to have a fix released soon. Thanks - Melanie

Events

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Donald Trump means business. So what’s about to hit the world economy?

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Some of the best strategies for reducing the chances of developing dementia are, to put it kindly, impracticable

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As birth rates plunge, many politicians want to pour money into policies that might lead women to have more babies

App Privacy

The developer, The Economist, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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