The sources, in order
- 1The app's own drama page, coin guide and terms.
- 2The app's partner data where it has one: ReelShort's catalog (RS Boost) and DramaCPS's lists for DramaBox, ShortMax, NetShort and StardustTV.
- 3Apple's App Store and Google Play listings, for store ratings and in-app prices.
- 4The app's official YouTube channel, for trailers and clips only. A video is never the source of a fact.
- 5A third-party catalog site, only for a fact the app leaves off, named and dated on the page.
Every number on a page carries the day it was read. A forum post is never the second source for a fact, and viewer opinions appear only as dated, linked quotes.
Where each figure comes from
| Figure | Taken from | Shown with |
|---|---|---|
| Total episodes | The app's own drama page. For ReelShort, the partner catalog (RS Boost). | Read date |
| Free episodes | The episodes before the first locked one, as the app's page or the partner catalog shows them. | Read date |
| Coins per episode | The app's coin guide or price list. | Read date |
| Cost to finish | Our arithmetic: the number of locked episodes times the coins one episode costs, covered by the least expensive combination of the app's coin bundles. If the app lists no price per episode, the page shows no cost. | Marked as our math |
| Store rating and in-app prices | Apple's App Store and Google Play. | Read date |
| AI label | What the app's page says about the drama. A page that says nothing is shown as unknown. | Read date |
| Cast | An official credit only. Character names are spelled the way the app prints them. | Source line |
| Story summary | Written here from the app's premise, then compared claim by claim with it. We copy no more than seven words in a row. | Source line |
Views and likes that an app displays are kept apart and never folded into a score; this site publishes no rating of its own.
When sources disagree
The app's own page outranks everything else, with one exception. For ReelShort, the partner catalog supplies episode and free-episode counts. If ReelShort's public page shows a different free count on the day of our read, the drama page prints the catalog's figure and adds a line with the public page's figure and the date.
If two third-party catalog sites contradict each other, the page shows neither and we check the app by hand.
How pages are written
Drafted with AI tools, then checked by a second, automated review against the pages of each app before a page is opened to search engines.
No one here claims to have watched a drama, binged it or paid for coins. Where a page needs a viewer's experience, it quotes a dated, linked source or goes without. The rules in full are in the editorial policy.
How the apps are read
Some figures are collected by a script that reads an app's public catalog pages. It fetches robots.txt first, waits at least three seconds between two requests to the same site, reads a capped number of pages per run and gives up for the day on an HTTP 403, a rate limit or a bot-challenge page. It solves no captchas, rotates no IP addresses and logs in nowhere.
The terms of many apps prohibit automated reads. We read public pages regardless, and any app or rights holder can have a poster or a whole page removed by writing to us (see contact). The partner catalog is read through its read-only endpoints; episodes, play links, video and cover images are not kept.
When something is wrong
A figure that was wrong on its read date is fixed in place and entered in the public corrections log. A figure that was right when read and has changed since is brought up to date on the next read. Either way the page shows the day of its latest read.