Is MoboReels free?
Free to download, not free to finish. MoboReels costs nothing to install, and then sells access: on the US App Store its Weekly VIP is listed at $29.99. Which price you are offered, the store does not say.
What MoboReels is
MoboReels is a short-drama app that has been on the App Store since July 2023. Its seller also publishes MoboReader and other reading apps. The seller named on the listing is CHANGDU (HK) TECHNOLOGY LIMITED.
What MoboReels sells
| Listed as | What it is | Prices listed |
|---|---|---|
| Weekly VIP | a pass that renews every week | $29.99 |
| Monthly VIP | a pass that renews every month | $49.99 |
| Coins Pack | a single payment for coins | $9.99, $14.99, $19.99, $29.99 and $49.99 |
| Check-in Rewards Pack | not described by the listing | $14.99, $19.99 and $28.99 |
From the in-app purchases on MoboReels'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
- A weekly pass is not a monthly price. $29.99 a week is $119.96 over four weeks. It renews every week until you cancel.
- 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.
MoboReels next to the apps we track
| App | Free episodes | Of how many | Weekly pass |
|---|---|---|---|
| MoboReels | not known | – | $29.99 |
| 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
- Where the lock starts on each drama. We do not read MoboReels drama by drama, so we cannot tell you how much of one is free before you open it.
- 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.