Is Kalos TV free?
Free to download, not free to finish. Kalos TV costs nothing to install, and then sells access: on the US App Store its vip free week is listed at $19.99 to $24.99. Which price you are offered, the store does not say.
What Kalos TV is
Kalos TV is a short-drama app that has been on the App Store since September 2023. Its listing describes original short dramas, in English and 11 other languages. The seller named on the listing is Storyverse Co., Limited.
What Kalos TV sells
| Listed as | What it is | Prices listed |
|---|---|---|
| vip free week | named as a week of VIP; the listing does not say whether it renews | $19.99 and $24.99 |
| Coin Package Week / Month | coin packages named by week and month | $14.99 (week) and $29.99 (month) |
| Standard Gear | single payments; the listing does not say what they buy | $6.99, $8.99, $9.99, $14.99 and $24.99 |
From the in-app purchases on Kalos TV's US App Store listing, read Oct 15, 2026. The listing gives names and prices only: it does not say what a single payment buys, or why the same pass appears at several prices. Other countries have other prices.
What that adds up to
- Check how often it renews. The listing gives a price for the subscription and not its period. The payment screen says whether that price is charged every week, month or year.
- Cancel with Apple or Google. A pass bought in the app is a subscription in your App Store or Google Play account. Deleting the app does not end it.
- Look at the payment screen before you tap. The price there is the one you pay; it can differ from one person to the next.
Kalos TV next to the apps we track
| App | Free episodes | Of how many | Weekly pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kalos TV | not known | – | $19.99 to $24.99, period not listed |
| ReelShort | 9 | 55 | $14.99 |
| GoodShort | 9 | 59 | not published |
| DramaBox | 9 | 50 | not published |
| ShortMax | 10 | 61 | not published |
For the four apps we track: the typical drama, from the 8,547 dramas whose paywall we have checked, as of Oct 17, 2026; a weekly pass price is shown only where the app publishes one on its website. How we read prices.
What we can't tell you
- What each purchase buys. Kalos TV's listing names its items "vip free week", "Standard Gear" and "Coin Package" without saying what they unlock or how often they renew, and we do not read its dramas one by one.
- What a drama costs in total. Without a published price per episode there is nothing to add up.
Ways to watch short dramas without paying
- PineDrama, TikTok's app, is free with ads.
- Some whole dramas are posted officially on YouTube. The ones we found.
- On the apps we track, some dramas give far more free episodes than others. The list.