STARZ

STARZ is a streaming app for people who want the service’s own TV series and films in one place on a phone, tablet, or living-room screen. By our assessment, its main strength is the straightforward bundle of premium series, movies, and live-channel style browsing that comes with a familiar subscription app. The downside is simple too: this is one more service in a crowded streaming market, so its appeal depends heavily on whether its library is the one you want. In use it feels like a standard modern streamer, with profiles, watchlists, and the usual on-demand rhythm rather than anything fussy. Against the big general platforms, STARZ sits as a smaller, more focused catalogue rather than a broad everything-store of video. It is best for viewers who already have a reason to look for STARZ originals and films, and less useful for people who want one app to cover all television.