A Google user

5 stars for the content. 1 star for the app. It seems like this app always has _something_ wrong with it. If I want to view content pass the paywall in the chrome browser, the app wants to hijack login and never works with handoff back to the browser. The app gets sluggish at times, especially with bookmarking. Audio playback drops out for random reasons, even when I've downloaded the content locally. Trying to play audio while doing anything else also seems to randomly stop as well.

Waciuma Wanjohi

A terrible audio experience. The app cannot bookmark playback, has no sleep timer, does not work with Android Auto, the Economist keeps playing over map directions instead of pausing, car audio controls do not skip backwards or forwards, earbud controls to go back will rewind to the beginning of an article rather than rewind several seconds. Any podcast app on the market has solved these problems. Edited

Joseph Gorodenker

Excellent content ruined by mediocre app experience. Over multiple iterations of the app it has become ever more slick and graphic oriented, at the expense of audio usability. Navigating audio content is so tiresome now I find myself avoiding using the app (returning after a few weeks away and I'm reminded of frustration) and so I'll likely not renew my subscription. Updated review to 1 star as it seems that's the only way to get publishers attention. Fix the navigation, you're not a monopoly. Edited

Stephen Samms

1 star for the audio (podcast) part of this app because: 1) It almost always fails to remember where we left off listening, 2) When connected to a car-stereo the forward/reverse buttons in the car are mapped to the next/last function in the player so you can't skip forward 15s or so at a time unless you pull out your phone/login and pull up the app to use the on screen skip-forward button. Combined with complaint #1 makes using this app via bluetooth control useless. Edited

Laura Connolly

I really like The Economist's reporting and have subscribed for a long time, but the app frequently crashes on my Galaxy S22 when listening to the audio version. I also don't like the fact that articles disappear from the main feed and are hard to find later, so I can't easily finish one I hadn't had time for. It seems like a publication with the resources of the Economist could develop a less buggy app.