1117 EP
ReelShort
Independent · Est. 2026
Vertical
drama,
measured.
Short drama apps are brilliant at hiding what a series actually costs. We track 1885 series across 6 platforms, price every one of them to the last coin, and tell you which are worth it.
297 EP
ReelShort
Love Under Attack
393 EP
ReelShort
The CEO's Contract Wife
492 EP
ReelShort
My Dear Brother is Obsessed With Me
587 EP
ReelShort
I Swapped Bodies with My Nemesis
117 EP
ReelShort
Secrets and Soulmates
97 EP
ReelShort
Love Under Attack
93 EP
ReelShort
The CEO's Contract Wife
92 EP
ReelShort
My Dear Brother is Obsessed With Me
87 EP
ReelShort
I Swapped Bodies with My Nemesis
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About this siteHow we work
Every number on this site is produced the same way, by people willing to put their name on it. Here is the whole method in four paragraphs.
Read, not guessed
Episode counts, runtimes and how far into a series you can watch free are taken from each platform's own listing for that specific series. Coin prices come from the in-app purchase tiers Apple publishes for each app. Nothing on this site is estimated where it can be read, and every series page carries the date its record was last read.
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All guidesThe lead
RankingsAug 13, 2026
Revenge Short Dramas: All 150 We Track, Sorted by Length
No platform rates these, so we didn't invent a ranking — here's every one of the 150 series NetShort tags Revenge, sorted by episode count, with what actually rides along with the label.
Read01GuidesSep 8, 2026
DramaBox Top Up: Three Tiers, No Bulk Discount, Two Different $19.99s
Apple lists three DramaBox top-up tiers — $4.99, $9.99, $19.99 — and no rung is cheaper per coin. Seven of its ten listings are Membership, four at that same $19.99.
Read02GuidesSep 8, 2026
How Long a Short Drama Takes to Finish Free: Ten Days, Four Weeks, or We Can't Say
Grinding ads and check-ins, a median ReelShort series finishes in about ten days and a median ShortMax series in about four weeks. For the other four apps we can't compute it at all — two lack the series length, one lacks the daily rate, one lacks both.
Read03GuidesSep 8, 2026
NetShort Free Episodes: 721 Series Read, None Free to the End
We read the paywall position off NetShort's own series pages for all 721 series: a median of 8 free episodes, range 1 to 59, always one unbroken run from episode 1 — and not a single series that runs free to the end.
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Sort the whole databaseCheapest to finish
Completed series ranked by what it costs to unlock every remaining episode, assuming you buy the most efficient coin pack combination and use no free coins.
84 EPfinish for$0.00
ReelShort
A Mother’s Wait: Mom, Dad, I'm Back
57 EPfinish for$0.00
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Accelerating Love
68 EPfinish for$0.00
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All the Wrong Reasons
44 EPfinish for$0.00
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Alpha Mate Unchained
57 EPfinish for$0.00
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Baby, Please Don't Marry Him
71 EPfinish for$0.00
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Baby, You Had It Coming
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All toolsTools
Flagship
Coin & Time Calculator
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DatabaseDrama Finder
Filter all 52 tracked series by platform, trope, length, status and cost.
LookupWhere to Watch
Type a title, find which app actually has it — official links only.
PricingPlatform Price Compare
Every coin pack across six apps, ranked by true cost per coin.
PersonalMy Watchlist
Track what you are watching and how far in you are. No account needed.
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All guidesLatest
Everything we have published since launch, newest first — each piece says up front what we measured, where the number came from, and what we still do not know.
05New ReleasesSep 8, 2026
An Upload Is Not a Unit: 537 Short-Drama Videos Posted in June 2026
Eight official short-drama channels posted 537 videos in June 2026 — one channel's median upload ran 1:14, another's ran 67:16. The full channel table, why its rows are not the same measurement, and why June only looks like the small month.
Read06GuidesSep 8, 2026
Short Drama App Store Ratings: Two Scores, 4.49–4.90 and 3.08–4.45
Every short-drama app has two different scores: Apple's own store rating, from 2,136,990 raters (4.49–4.90), and our average of the 2,839 written reviews Apple's feed returns (3.08–4.45). They rank the six apps differently — here are both, side by side, with the gap explained.
Read07GuidesSep 8, 2026
Short Drama Cost Per Hour: The One App Where the Math Closes
No app prices by the hour. NetShort's 157-second first episode is the only in-app duration we hold, so it is the only cost-per-hour we can build: about $13.64.
Read08GuidesSep 2, 2026
Is DramaBox Legit? Yes — and It Has the Widest Rating Gap We Measured
DramaBox is a real app with real licensed shows, billed through Apple. The catch isn't fraud: its 4.76 store rating and its written reviews, averaging 3.21, describe two different apps.
Read09GuidesSep 2, 2026
Is GoodShort Legit? The Highest-Rated App — and a Review That Explains Why
GoodShort is real, transparent about coin prices, and rated 4.90 by half a million people. One duplicated five-star review in our sample says the quiet part out loud: the stars were for bonus coins.
Read10GuidesSep 2, 2026
Is ReelShort Legit? We Checked Its Paywall Claims Against Its Own Uploads
ReelShort is real, and unusually checkable: it publishes its paywall position on every series page, and its free YouTube batches match those numbers in 32 of the 35 series we could verify — the app never gave less.
Read11GuidesSep 2, 2026
Is ShortMax Legit? Real App, Real Shows — and Nothing Is Free to the End
ShortMax is legitimate and unusually generous on YouTube, where it posts whole dramas free. Inside the app, we read the paywall on 401 of its 402 series: not one is free to the finish.
Read12GuidesAug 30, 2026
ShortMax Weekly Pass Pro: Five Listings, Two Prices, No Stated Terms
Apple lists five ShortMax subscriptions all called Weekly Pass Pro, at $9.99 and $19.99. Whether the pass beats coins flips on a number nobody publishes — both answers, and which assumption produces each.
Read13GuidesAug 28, 2026
The ReelShort Subscription: Three Products, One Price, and Nobody Says What You Get
Apple lists three separate ReelShort subscriptions and prices all three at $19.99 — without stating what any of them unlocks. Sourced math on what that is worth as a ceiling, why the monthly figure is $86.62 rather than $79.96, and the 108 series that never charge at all.
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