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The Economist | unitQ Score
The unitQ score is the fraction of public feedback data (iOS & Android) that mentions quality issues.
100 = No Issues. 50 = Some Issues. 0 = All Issues
100 = No Issues. 50 = Some Issues. 0 = All Issues
1 Point Past 30 Days
Category: News
30-Day Trend
Android unitQ Score
Android User Feedback
31%
Android
24 Reports
24 Reports
iOS unitQ Score
iOS User Feedback
69%
iOS
54 Reports
54 Reports
User Feedback
69%
iOS
54 Reports
54 Reports
31%
Android
24 Reports
24 Reports
The Economist - Latest Quality Issues
iOS
Mar 28, 2025
Bad App Experience
Updated March 27: This app continues to be absolutely awful and distracts from the content. Hard to know if it's spinning for an ad or content. Legacy app was perfect, not sure why we had to move. Consider a new pricing tier that includes access to the legacy app please. Older review: Seeing the continued pleas to stop using the legacy iOS app, it is disingenuous to claim that the new version is better. If you're going to force us to transition to the inferior app, please include settings that allow us to mimic the legacy app (i.e., one download of the weekly edition, no streaming, no links, no updates - just a digital replication of the weekly print edition). Will seriously consider whether to keep my subscription if forced off the legacy app without a workable solution in place.
iOS
Mar 28, 2025
made listening more difficult
My issue with the new version of the app is that it makes listening to the audio version of the weekly editions more troublesome. In the old legacy app, it was easy to add the entire new edition to the top of the audio queue as soon as it was available on a thursday evening. In the new app, this seems not to be possible at all. You have to wait for a day before being able to handle multiple audio files at once, and even then you need to individually select them and can only add them to the bottom of the audio queue. That means I would need to do more annoying housekeeping and throw out the old articles i haven't listened to yet (even though i might still enjoy listening to them later) to access the new ones. Changing the order in bulk is also not possible, and changing tracks individually is very tedious. Please just make it as easy as it used to be again!
iOS
Mar 28, 2025
can’t update
when I use the app on my iphone,the content in the app asks me to “update” but when I come to the App Store and click the “update” button it shows “the developer has removed this app from the Apple Store”…emm…what should I do?…cry loudly
Android
Mar 29, 2025
For the last several months, since the update, I have not been able to open The Economist on my Chromebook. I keep getting sent to an update page which does not work. I get a notice that The Economist is not compatible with my Chromebook.
iOS
Mar 29, 2025
Doesn’t work on my iPad
The Economist is a fantastic journal but the app now no longer works on this iPad. It goes into an update loop with the App Store but doesn't update.
iOS
Mar 29, 2025
What happened
Obviously they didn't like me still using the classic version reader and cut me off when I tried to download the current issue. If I use the new reader it works but it is as if the art work is done by People Magazine plus I am on a one month trial so I have lost 9 months of my original subscription. I have been a subscriber for 40+ years but not sure I will renew.
Android
Mar 30, 2025
Stupid app has stopped supporting my Chromebook.
iOS
Mar 30, 2025
Bring back the legacy app!
Love that the latest version of the new app allows a *limited* number of stories to be added to the audio queue, but the UI affordances are still not as good as the legacy app.
iOS
Mar 31, 2025
Bad Update
The now forced update is far worse than the previous one. Downloading articles to play in and car is harder to do and far less intuitive. Before you could scan and easily download the articles interesting to you from the weekly homepage. Once downloaded, it was clear what article you were on and what was upcoming. Now weekly, podcasts and videos are splattered in the same place randomly placed like a Jackson Pollock minus any artistic integrity. Now if listening in the car you have no idea where in the weekly you are or what is next. Terrible terrible update.
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