Top-5 vertical drama app globally by monthly active users. Below: whether it's free, whether it's legit, its pricing building blocks, and our cost-to-finish estimate for every ShortMax show we track.
Every ShortMax show we track starts free — typically the first 4 episodes before coins kick in.
ShortMax bills through a third-party payment processor, so its pass may not appear under your App Store or Play subscriptions — cancel through the payment channel you used, not the store's subscription page. User-reported · as of 2026-06-26
App Store + Google Play reviews sampled · analyzed Jul 14, 2026 · method
Tier names and prices as published on the US app-store listings. The stores don't say how many coins a tier buys — that's the number the apps keep in-app, and why our per-episode figures are estimates.