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ProperShortVertical drama, measured.

Platform · 463 series

ShortMax Short Dramas

The largest catalogue we hold, and the only one that states an episode total outright on the page rather than leaving it to be counted.

Series
463
Median to finish
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Pricing

What ShortMax charges

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$48.86typical 80-episode series
—free episodes
60coins per episode (modelled)

Fast-moving release schedule; often the first Western home for a hit series. 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. 350$3.49$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 5 eps
  2. 500$4.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 8 eps
  3. 1,000$9.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 16 eps
  4. 1,500$14.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 25 eps
  5. 2,500$24.99$0.0100/coinmodelled≈ 41 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). Weekly Pass Pro: $43.29/mo equivalent — Apple lists two Weekly Pass Pro tiers, $9.99 and $19.99 (US store, 2026-08-19); we show the cheaper. No annual plan appears in Apple's list, which carries only the ten most popular purchases — one may exist and simply not have surfaced. The monthly figure annualises the weekly price over 52 weeks and divides by twelve.

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

  • Weekly Pass Pro$9.99
  • Weekly Pass Pro$19.99
  • One-time Purchase$3.49
  • One-time Purchase$4.99
  • One-time Purchase$9.99
  • One-time Purchase$14.99
  • One-time Purchase$24.99

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 Weekly Pass Pro 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.

  • ShortMax was absent from the pricing table supplied to us, so everything here rests on Apple: one-time purchases at $3.49, $4.99, $9.99, $14.99 and $24.99 (US store, 2026-08-19). The $3.49 entry point is the lowest of the six platforms we track.
  • Apple does not label coin amounts for ShortMax, so every coin figure here is our model at $0.00998 a coin. The prices are observed; the coins are not.
  • shortmax.com redirects to shorttv.live — same brand, different domain.
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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
ShortestThe Die is CastShortMax5——
Longest[Dubbed]Reset: CollegeShortMax147——
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What it costs to watch all of it

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$0.00to finish all 463
—total viewing
62average episodes

Median series here costs — 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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The other apps we track

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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.