TMZ

Review by eFreeware

TMZ is a free Android app from EHM Productions, Inc. that gathers entertainment news from the TMZ newsroom into one place: breaking Hollywood stories, celebrity photos and video, and full episodes of the company's television shows. It sits in the News & Magazines category on Google Play, has been available since March 2010, and carries a 4.8 average from more than 83,000 ratings alongside over 16,000 written reviews. The install count has passed a million.

The main reason to consider it is focus. This is not a general news reader with an entertainment section bolted on; everything in it is built around celebrity, pop culture and the industry around them. If that is the corner of the news you actually follow, an app that only serves that corner saves you the work of sifting through everything else.

Exclusive stories and breaking alerts

The feature the developer leads with is exclusive reporting. The pitch covers legal drama, candid photographs and video footage, and the app is billed as carrying accurate information you will not find anywhere else. That is the heart of the proposition: stories that originate with TMZ rather than being aggregated from other outlets.

The second half of that pairing is the alert system. You can have breaking news notifications pushed to your device, which is how the app is meant to keep you current rather than having you check in on a schedule. For readers who care about a story the moment it lands, that push is the difference between following the news and catching up on it later.

The two features work together. Alerts bring you in when something breaks, and the exclusive coverage is what you find when you arrive. Anyone who treats celebrity news as background noise will find the notifications more interruption than service; anyone who follows it closely will likely want them on.

Photos, video and full show episodes

Beyond the written stories, the app carries curated photo galleries — the kind of funny, eye-catching celebrity pictures that are easy to flick through when you have a few minutes. It also includes candid interviews and footage of celebrities and entertainers, presented as close-up and personal rather than polished press material.

What sets it apart from a plain news feed is the on-demand video. The app also carries the daily television output on demand, so the shows and the written coverage live in one place. For someone who watches the shows when they can rather than when they air, having the episodes in the same place as the stories is a real convenience.

Taken together, the app covers three ways of consuming the same beat: reading, watching short clips, and watching full episodes. How much you use each will depend on how you normally take in entertainment news, but all three are present rather than one being an afterthought.

What it costs and what it asks of you

The app is free to download. The trade-off is advertising: the app contains ads, and the developer notes that it works with mobile advertising companies and similar entities that help deliver ads tailored to your interests. The app links to outside resources for learning about those practices and opting out within mobile apps.

The practical requirement is simply that you want this material and are willing to accept advertising in exchange for it.

The app is rated Teen, which is a fair signal of the register: candid footage, legal drama and tabloid-style photography are the substance here, not family-oriented coverage. It is also worth noting that the app was last updated in September 2026, with the changes described only as bug fixes and improvements.

Getting the most from it

The sensible way to approach the app is to decide early how much you want from it. If you turn on breaking alerts, you are opting into a stream of notifications tied to whatever the newsroom considers urgent that day. If you would rather browse on your own terms, the same stories and galleries are there without the push.

The on-demand episodes reward a different habit: catching up on "TMZ on TV" or "TMZ Live" when it suits you instead of at broadcast time. Someone who follows the shows regularly can lean on that side of the app, while someone who mainly wants the scoops can stay with the stories and alerts.

Because the coverage is narrow by design, the app works best as a dedicated stop for one subject rather than a general news source you check alongside everything else. Treating it that way — as the place you go when you want this specific beat — matches what it is built to do.

A focused pick for celebrity news followers

TMZ does one thing and does it without apology: it delivers Hollywood entertainment news, photos, video and the company's television shows in a single free app. The exclusive reporting and breaking alerts are the core, the galleries and candid footage fill in the rest, and the on-demand episodes give it a reach that a plain news feed would not have.

It suits readers who follow celebrity and pop culture news closely and want to hear about it as it happens, and viewers who want the shows available whenever they have time. The advertising and the Teen-rated subject matter are the price of admission, and neither is hidden.

With a 4.8 average across a large body of ratings and more than a million installs, the app has clearly found its audience. If that audience sounds like you, the download is free and the decision is straightforward.

What's new in version 3.37.0

Bug fixes and improvements