The Economist - World News

Desperately, desperately needs Android auto app. I prefer to play most of these articles, audibly, but this is made difficult by the lack of an Android auto application. Also, they need to redo their saved articles and their audio player. It's very difficult to manipulate saved articles to play them back orally. Content is very good otherwise, a lot of international articles, for example, about Africa, that you won't see elsewhere.

As informative and enjoyable as the narration is, I wish for the return of the convenience that allowed users to tap from the audible article thumbnail straight into the written version. It's been a hassle & 1/2 navigating otherwise, especially if one doesn't remember the edition he's on. Otherwise, the app and content have improved, especially with the addition of the new Weekend and Insider sections.

Great content, love the Economist. The app though is very bad, and that's what I'm rating here. It is incredibly poorly optimized. Loads slowly, there is delay in switching from one article to another, it doesn't put much in cache so if you are reading on the subway you'll have issues. When loading, if your internet connection gets temporarily interrupted, it won't try to refresh later and just stay stuck. It frustrates me every time I use it, whether at home or on the go.

Makes me want to cancel my subscription. It doesn't connect to cars or headphones well, so if you try and fast forward or rewind through parts of an article, it just skips to a totally new article. So to use it, you have to keep your phone open and in your hand at all times. They updated the app amd still didn't fix the issue. how hard can it be? an ai coding program could probably do it for free for them. at this point it's just laziness or they need to hire new coders. it's pathetic.

The app seems to have gotten worse over the last year or so. When I am listening to the audio, the app will pause after each article until I touch my phone. I would like to be able to hit play and listen until I hit stop. The app also no longer keeps my place in the weekly addition. Every time I open it, it must look for signal and update the "World in Brief" section before I can continue where I left off. I hope that these odd glitches can be corrected in the near future.