The Economist: News & Analysis revenue and downloads

★★★★★Oct 14, 2026

Content great but app gets worse and worse

Have more trouble with this app than any other. Tells me to update and I can’t because my iPad is older and won’t let me run version I have

★★★★★Oct 9, 2026

AI narration fails if not connected; useless on airplane

Hiking out of data coverage (or on airplane), app refused to play article even though I had all audio downloaded, because that story was “AI narrated” only. Again! Also, still dislike that sections are so badly ordered (Britain and Europe so far down the order). Again…

★★★★★Oct 5, 2026

*Always* “something went wrong”. And no navigation to home except back-back-back

I love the Economist and am a very long-time subscriber: this refers specifically to how bad this iPad app is. It is broken is in at least two ways and I hope a one-star review might get the developers to focus, as Lord knows nothing else will. 1. This is very long-standing, but if there is a home button I have never found it. To get from an article back to the front page the only way is back, back, back, or force-quit. This is *crazy*. If I am wrong then developers: make it more obvious than “completely buried”. 2. I get a lot of the Economist newsletters and that tends to be my start-point for interacting with articles. If I use my iPad — and I want to use it for this kind of reading, without fail I get a screen saying “something went wrong. We couldn’t load this story. Please wait a moment a try again”. Well, apparently developers, it’s been untold months and this is me giving up.

★★★★★Oct 4, 2026

Worse then ever

You finally got the message that some readers don’t care about the digital gimmicks that were ruining the experience and added the option to download only the print edition. However, I have to stare for a very extended time at the loading icon before seeing EVERY SINGLE article. Also, none of the images download. I’m amazed that an organization of such brilliant people can be so chronically stupid on the basics of digital experience. I beg you, fire every decision maker who has touched your digital offering and contract with the first person you run into on the street on your way home. You’ll be able to stop the exorbitant rate hikes and your readers will get the basic experience they expect.

★★★★★Sep 26, 2026

Terrible App; Great Reporting

I love this magazine and I’ve been listening for 7 years now. But the app is horrible. The latency is crazy, it’s super buggy and unintuitive. It’s a chore to access my favorite podcasts

★★★★★Sep 21, 2026

Biased

I’m a political atheist, I don’t take sides. Unfortunately, The Economist is just another biased publication siding with one side of the same problem. Propagandists passing for journalists.

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