
The Economist - News, Podcasts 12+
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The Economist
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The Economist news app offers 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 4.22.1
We’ve made general improvements to the app to improve your experience.
Ratings and Reviews
Very informative
I have been reading the economist for over 10 years and an ardent annual subscriber. It is “my go to place” for analysis and research as well other papers . I have not given it a 5 star because it is becoming more of a left leaning opinion paper rather than a fact based analytical publication. You would never have thought Boris, Trump or Brexit would happen just by reading it. We know the editor has an opinion but that should not be so overbearing that it overshadows what is really happening.
Great paper but app can be improved
The three stars refer to the app, not its content (that deserves 4.5 at the very least). It’s a fairly good app but there’s a few things that could improve its usability.
1) Choose default view: home updated daily or the weekly issue. Some of us find it more digestible and enjoyable to approach the Economist as a weekly publication-as it started
2) Enhance the Saved section: there’s too much content to be consumed, and it’s the kind you want to consume slowly and methodically. The saved section is great but too simple to help readers plan their ‘digestion’. It would be great to be able to sort saved articles, add tags or have sub folders, or at the very least: get info on how many articles/reading time are saved currently, how much read, how much to read. But most importantly sync across devices!!! I currently keep re saving from
the web and from
my phone app and then again from the iPad app. Not very friendly
3) Queue or save episodes to listen to
4) Delete old downloaded issues to prevent the app from storing too much data
These are just some ideas or requests. Other than that the app is largely great, but not as great as its content
Developer Response ,
Thanks for taking the time to share feedback on your experience in our app. Thanks for your comments on the Home and Saved sections - our app team are working to improve these. You can build a queue from the Weekly tab, this will allow you save articles and episodes to listen to later, in the order of your choice. To help manage data storage, we only store up to 8 weekly editions, old downloads are automatically removed when you download a new one. Thanks - Melanie
Content
Your content is very current, very relevant, informative , gives an all round view of global affairs in summary. It’s easy to use.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. We’re glad to hear that you’re enjoying our global analysis, and hope we will continue to be your trusted guide to business news, politics, economics and culture in the future.
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Information
- Provider
- The Economist Newspaper Group Inc.
- Size
- 69.1 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2025
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Digital Monthly USD 34.90
- Digital Annual USD 349.00
- Podcasts Monthly USD 3.90
- Three month subscription USD 75.99
- Podcasts Annual USD 39.00
- One year subscription USD 319.00