Category: Short Drama Apps

Romance is the genre that built the short drama format, and it is still the one with the most titles. […]

Trends in this category move by word of mouth rather than by advertising. Someone at the office mentions a show […]

Half the people watching short dramas are doing it in a place where sound is not an option: on the […]

The vertical format was designed for a phone held in one hand, and that constraint explains everything about it: the […]

Not every short watch is a vertical soap opera. Some of what people call mini drama is closer to the […]

A new year is a good excuse to sort out which apps deserve space on your phone. The category has […]

Short drama apps have quietly become one of the most popular ways to watch scripted fiction on a phone. The […]

There is a particular frustration in installing a drama app, watching four episodes, and then meeting a paywall that wants […]

Short drama apps arrived on iPhone later than on Android, but the App Store now carries almost every title worth […]

Chinese production companies effectively invented the vertical mini drama, and the format’s grammar — the revenge arc, the hidden identity, […]