What is the best short drama app?

It depends on what you want. To watch without paying, PineDrama (free with ads). For the biggest share of each drama free, DramaBox: its typical drama gives 9 of 50 episodes free. For the most dramas, GoodShort, with 3,501 tracked. To know what you will pay, ReelShort, the only one that publishes a price per episode.

Are there free short drama apps?

PineDrama, TikTok's short drama app, is free with ads and sells nothing. Every other app is free to download and gives the first episodes of each drama free, then sells coins or a weekly pass. Some apps also post whole dramas on their official YouTube channels.

Which short drama app gives the most free episodes?

Of the four apps we count drama by drama, DramaBox: its typical drama gives 9 episodes free out of 50. The free run varies a lot from drama to drama, so the same drama can give more on one app than on another.

How much do short drama apps cost?

Weekly passes are the usual price. ReelShort publishes $14.99 a week on the web. On the US App Store the other apps list weekly passes from $4.99 (VibeShort) to $29.99 (NetShort). A weekly pass renews every week until you cancel it in your App Store or Google Play account.

How many short drama apps are there?

This page compares 14. Many smaller ones appear on the App Store every month; we add an app once people search for it in numbers.

Apps compared · checked Oct 17, 2026

Short drama apps, compared

14 apps that sell one-to-two-minute-episode dramas, side by side. For four of them we count every drama ourselves (8,561 so far); for the rest we read what their App Store listings say. No app pays to be on this page.

Quick answers

Watch without payingPineDramaTikTok's app sells nothing: no coins, no pass. It is paid for by ads.Largest share freeDramaBoxThe typical DramaBox drama gives 9 of 50 episodes free, the largest share of the four apps we count.Biggest catalogGoodShort3,501 dramas tracked, more than any other app we read.Know the price before you payReelShortThe only app that publishes its price per episode. Finishing a typical drama with coins costs about $26.95; the weekly pass is $14.99.AI-made dramasReelShortMost of its new releases now carry its own AI label; VibeShort is an app of AI dramas only.

The four apps we count drama by drama

App	Dramas	Free episodes (typical)	Weekly pass	App Store
DramaBox	2,890	9 of 50	not published	4.8 ★ (868K)
ReelShort	1,099	9 of 55	$14.99 (web)	4.7 ★ (505K)
ShortMax	1,071	10 of 61	not published	4.6 ★ (177K)
GoodShort	3,501	9 of 59	not published	4.9 ★ (528K)

Typical = the median drama, bundles of several seasons left out. A weekly price is shown only where the app publishes one on its website; in the app it can be higher. How we read prices · Prices compared in detail.

Free with ads

PineDrama is TikTok's short drama app. Its listing shows no in-app purchases: no coins and no pass, so every drama is free to the end, with ads. App Store: 4.9 ★ (64,000 ratings).

Other apps, from their App Store listings

App	Seller	Weekly pass listed	Monthly	App Store
DramaWave	SKYWORK AI PTE LTD	$7.99–$19.99	$36.99	4.9 ★ (184,000)
NetShort	NETSTORY PTE. LTD.	$5.99–$29.99	–	4.7 ★ (221,000)
MoboReels	CHANGDU (HK) TECHNOLOGY LIMITED	$29.99	$49.99	4.5 ★ (40,700)
FlickReels	FARSUN PTE. LTD.	$12.99–$19.99	$25.99–$39.99	4.8 ★ (107,000)
My Drama	Holy Water Limited	period not listed	–	4.7 ★ (54,000)
Vigloo	Spoonlabs, Inc.	$17.99	$35.99	4.8 ★ (2,000)
FlexTV	YUDER PTE. LTD.	$29.99	$49.99	4.5 ★ (7,500)
Kalos TV	Storyverse Co., Limited	period not listed	–	4.5 ★ (13,200)
VibeShort	AGILE QUADRANT MEDIA LIMITED	$4.99–$19.99	–	4.7 ★ (49,000)

From each app's US App Store listing (in-app purchases, seller, rating), read between Oct 10, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026. Listings give names and prices only; which price you are shown is up to the app. We cannot say how many episodes these apps give free, because we do not read their dramas one by one. Each app's page has what we found.

Before you pay any of them

Every app gives the first episodes free. On the apps we count, the typical drama gives about 9 or 10 before the paywall. Dramas with the most free episodes.
A weekly pass renews every week. $19.99 a week is $79.96 over four weeks. Cancel it in your App Store or Google Play subscriptions; deleting the app does not stop it. How to cancel.
The same drama is often on two apps. One may give more episodes free. Where a drama is on more than one app, its page on GASP shows which, and how many episodes each gives free.
Some whole dramas are free on YouTube, posted by the apps themselves. The ones we found.