E! News

Review by eFreeware

E! News is a free Android app from Versant Media, LLC, published in the News & Magazines category and described by its developer as an Emmy-nominated way to follow celebrity and entertainment coverage. It pulls headlines, photo galleries, video and red carpet livestreams into a single place, with personalization for the topics you care about.

The main reason to consider it is breadth. Rather than one narrow feed, it mixes breaking entertainment stories, curated photo collections, behind-the-scenes clips and full episodes of E! and NBCUniversal shows. If pop culture is something you follow seriously rather than casually, that combination is the appeal.

It carries ads and offers no in-app purchases, so the cost of entry is your attention rather than your wallet. The app has more than a million installs and a 4.3 average from 17,192 ratings, which suggests a settled audience rather than a brand-new experiment.

Headlines, search and a feed you shape yourself

At its core the app is a news reader for celebrity and entertainment stories. The developer says updates arrive in real time, so the emphasis is on stories as they break rather than a daily digest assembled later. That suits the way entertainment news actually moves: a red carpet, a premiere or an awards show generates a burst of coverage over a few hours.

Search is the feature I would lean on most. You can look up a specific celebrity, show or topic instead of scrolling a general feed, which matters when you are following one storyline and do not want everything else mixed in. It is the difference between a broad magazine and a lookup tool, and having both in one app is useful.

My News is where the app asks you to do a little work up front. You choose which subjects to follow, and you can set alerts so you are told when something new lands. The payoff is a feed that reflects your interests rather than the general audience's, though it only works as well as the choices you make.

Photo galleries sit alongside the text coverage. These are curated collections built around themes such as celebrity couples and fashion, which is a different way of consuming the same beat. For readers who follow red carpet style as closely as the stories themselves, that section carries real weight.

Live from E! and the red carpet angle

The livestream side is what separates this from a plain news feed. Live from E! covers award shows, movie premieres and similar events, with the developer promising up-close access to stars at the Oscars, Emmys and Grammys. Following an event live is a different experience from reading about it the next morning, and it is the part of the app that would pull me back on a big night.

Glambots and red carpet looks are shown live, which points to the fashion side of the coverage being treated as its own attraction rather than a footnote. The developer frames the app as not just reporting on events but creating moments around them, which is a marketing claim as much as a description of the format.

Video is presented in a social media-inspired style. That suggests short, scrollable clips rather than long-form programming, which fits the way most people catch up on entertainment between other things. It is a format choice, and it will read as either efficient or shallow depending on what you want from coverage.

Show clips, full episodes and the TV provider login

That turns the app into something closer to a streaming companion than a pure news product, and it is a meaningful addition for viewers already following those series.

The catch is plain: streaming your favorite E! shows requires logging in with your TV provider. So the episode library is not simply open to anyone who installs the app. If you already have a qualifying provider, that requirement costs you nothing; if you do not, the news, galleries and red carpet coverage are what remain.

I would treat this as two products sharing one icon. One is a free celebrity news app with photos, video and livestreams. The other is a viewing portal tied to a television subscription. Knowing which half you actually want makes the decision much simpler.

Ads, measurement software and the Teen rating

The app is free and supported by advertising, which is the trade-off. It also contains Nielsen measurement software, described as contributing to market research such as TV ratings, with links to the developer's privacy pages and a California notice. That is standard for a media company's app, but it is worth knowing before you install rather than after.

There are no in-app purchases, so nothing inside the app is gated behind a payment beyond the TV provider login for show streaming. The content rating is Teen, which fits the subject matter: entertainment coverage that can touch on adult celebrity news without being aimed at adults only.

The latest update, dated October 1, 2026, is described as performance updates and bug fixes. That is a maintenance release rather than a feature drop, and it tells you the app is being kept current without promising anything new to try.

Who this fits, and how it compares with a general news app

This is built for people who follow celebrity culture as a genuine interest, not as something they skim when a story crosses into general news. If you want to know what happened at an awards show while it is happening, keep up with red carpet fashion, or track a handful of specific stars, the app is organized around exactly those habits.

The personalization and alerts reward that kind of use. Someone who checks in once a week will get less from My News than someone who follows several ongoing stories and wants to be told when they move. The livestreams in particular are event-driven, so their value depends on whether you care about the events being covered.

Against a general news app, the focus is the point. A broad news reader will carry entertainment stories among everything else; this one puts the entertainment beat first and adds video, galleries and show episodes around it. That narrowness is a feature for the right reader and a limitation for everyone else.

The TV provider requirement for show streaming is the one thing I would weigh carefully. It splits the audience into those who can use the full app and those who get the news side only. Neither group is badly served, but they are getting different products from the same download.

A focused pick for committed pop culture followers

E! News does one job and does it in several formats: breaking celebrity coverage, searchable by name or show, shaped by your own choices, with photo galleries, video and live red carpet streams layered on top. The addition of E! and NBCUniversal episodes gives it a second life as a viewing app for anyone with a TV provider login.

The ads and the Nielsen measurement software are the price of a free app, and the provider requirement is a real boundary around the streaming half. Neither is a surprise for this kind of product, but both shape what you actually get.

I would suggest it to readers who already follow entertainment news closely and want updates, alerts and red carpet coverage in one place, especially if they have a qualifying TV provider. For occasional readers who only want the biggest stories, a general news app will cover the same ground with less to set up.

What's new in version 7.3.2

The latest version of our app is now available! Includes performance updates and bug fixes! Love, E! News