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ProperShortVertical drama, measured.

Platform · 306 series

ReelShort Short Dramas

The only platform that publishes where its paywall sits, which is why it is the one place we can tell you what a series actually costs rather than what it could cost at most.

Series
306
Median to finish
$34.93
Pricing

What ReelShort charges

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$49.90typical 80-episode series
free episodes
60coins per episode (modelled)

The biggest Western-facing vertical drama app; heavy on werewolf and billionaire lines. The worst-value pack here costs 1.00× more per coin than the best, so which bundle you buy matters as much as how much you buy.

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Coin packs, ranked by value

  1. 500$4.99$0.0100/coin≈ 8 eps
  2. 1,000$9.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 16 eps
  3. 1,500$14.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 25 eps
  4. 2,000$19.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 33 eps
  5. 2,500$24.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 41 eps
  6. 3,000$29.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 50 eps

Free routes (typical for this category, not verified per app): Coins bought in the app, Ad-supported unlocks (where offered), Daily check-in rewards (where offered). VIP pass: $16.58/mo equivalent — Apple lists a $19.99 subscription; the figures supplied to us describe that as a weekly price and add a $199 annual plan. The monthly figure is the annual price over twelve — the cheapest route if you commit for a year. Paying weekly instead runs to about $1,039 across the same year.

Listed on the App Store — US store, 2026-08-19

  • Subscription$19.99
  • One-time Purchase$4.99
  • One-time Purchase$9.99
  • One-time Purchase$14.99
  • One-time Purchase$19.99
  • One-time Purchase$24.99
  • One-time Purchase$29.99

Apple publishes only the ten most popular in-app purchases, so this is not the full price list. Tier names are written by the developer and do not say what a tier actually grants.

What the pass gets you: No platform we track publishes what the ReelShort pass actually unlocks. We model it as an episode allowance capped at 2 a day, because that is what the two platforms in our data that do publish their terms impose. If it turns out to be unlimited viewing, it is worth more than we show.

  • The $4.99 = 500 coins figure was supplied to us on 2026-08-19, and Apple's listing does show a $4.99 one-time purchase — though Apple does not label the coin amount. The two agree, which is why this platform sits in 'reported' rather than 'estimated'.
  • The larger packs use Apple's own price points ($9.99, $14.99, $19.99, $24.99, $29.99, US store, 2026-08-19) with coin counts modelled at $0.00998 a coin. We were given no bonus-coin amounts and assume none, so a pack that does carry bonus coins costs less per coin than we show.
  • Per-episode cost was reported as a $0.10–$0.70 band, not a fixed price. We model 60 coins, near the top of that band, because episode prices in this format usually climb as a series goes on. Treat it as a ceiling.
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Where to start

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Ranked by our editor score; ties broken by cost to finish, then by whether the series is complete. Every figure comes from the same database that powers the cost calculator.

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The extremes

 SeriesPlatformEpisodesRuntimeTo finish
Cheapest to finishAccelerating LoveReelShort57$0.00
Most expensiveBig Bad Husband, Please Wake Up!ReelShort104$64.87
ShortestWe're Your ParentsReelShort27
LongestCEO's Twins Want Mommy BackReelShort105$59.88
Most free episodesDarling, Please Come HomeReelShort82$0.00
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What it costs to watch all of it

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$2095.80to finish all 306
total viewing
65average episodes

Median series here costs $34.93 and runs —. We do not hold a completed-or-ongoing status for these, so treat the totals as what is published today.Estimates assume no free coins and the cheapest coin-pack combination on each platform.

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Prices are the US App Store listings as of 19 August 2026, combined with figures supplied to us the same month. Coin counts, per-episode costs and what a subscription grants are modelled, not quoted — platforms change all of this without notice, so treat every total as an estimate and confirm in the app before paying.