The Economist app is everything I could ask for in a premium news and analysis platform. The content is world-class — sharp, well-researched, and balanced — covering global affairs, business, science, and culture with remarkable depth and clarity.What sets the app apart is its seamless user experience. The interface is clean, intuitive, and fast. I particularly enjoy the audio edition, which is perfect for staying informed during my commute or workouts. The ability to bookmark, highlight, and follow specific topics makes it easy to tailor the experience to my interests.Highly recommended for anyone who values high-quality journalism and wants to stay ahead of the curve with reliable, thoughtful reporting.

The Economist app is fantastic for anyone who loves in-depth analysis and detailed content. The articles are top-notch, and the data they provide is some of the best around. The app’s layout is also really user-friendly, making it easy to navigate and engage with the content.However, there's a small hiccup when it comes to saving and syncing articles across different devices. If you’re like me, you might check out news casually on your phone during a busy day but prefer to dive into detailed articles on your laptop or iPad during your downtime. Right now, saved articles don’t always sync across devices, which means you might end up trying to remember what you saved or doing a casual search to find it again.If The Economist could fix this syncing issue, it would make the app even better. But overall, it’s still a great choice for deep, quality journalism.

Online click-farming and political polarization has left most news sources a cortisol-fueling mess. The Economist has managed to hold out through this, with them still being a weekly publication, while remaining relatively non-partisan. They have encouraged me to pick up reading the news again, since I abandoned it in 2017. The mobile app is also one of the best and most intuitive I've found among other news apps. I like the native-feeling UI, and the audio articles is the cherry on top.However, seeing ads on something I pay for looks quite bad in this age. The first thing I look for in an app is a payment method to get rid of the ads, and I am disappointed I can't get do that here. Still worse is the fact that the ads seem to be provided by a third-party, with all the user-tracking and profiling that that entails. But the Economist seems to be set in their ways, and I had to install an ad-blocker on my phone because of this app.

I absolutely love this app, in particular the morning briefing (personally preferred it being called espresso briefing). I do have a few things I would suggest adding to this app considering how the legacy app always asks to switch over to this one. Having the 15 second fast forward/rewind and little excerpts about every article right under the headline (without actually opening the article) in the weekly edition is something very useful in the legacy app. These two little features are incredibly useful in my opinion. I can prioritise which article I would want to listen to first by reading the excerpt, and quickly rewind in case I miss something, instead of having to use the slider or open the article altogether. I don’t mean to imply that the headlines given for each are not good, they are great. It’s just nice to have a sneak peek of what the article is about.