The pricing is pretty typical (about 55 coins) for episodes. I've been satified with the three stories I've chosen so far. The three I'm watching have all had more professional looking settings than stories on some apps. It's hard to get invested when you know the production is so cheaply done, and yet the cost of coins is high.
Reviews for Sereal+ Short Drama, TV Series
← Back to Sereal+ Short Drama, TV SeriesThe stories are great, but this app is even more expensive than some of the others out there. For $15.00, you get to watch a max of about 13 - 18 episodes. That is just crazy to me, and the so-called free bonus points are 180 - 250 per day max. This basically only gets you between 1 - 3 episodes max per day. It's not really worth keeping this app.
Subscribed because I don't care to watch ads and I don't have a life. However, the app does not work even after unistalling and re-installing multiple times. Turning phone off and on, restarting. Everything you can think of. This is too inconvenient, even for a person like me that has the time. I do not have the time for this. Canceling subscription. 2 stars for the stories I wanted to watch. Tried again, still nothing. You would think that they would respond 🙄
This app is very expensive for what is being put out. You can literally go to a movie theatre cheaper than these mini flicks. Sure some of them have good plots. But so does a book. I film on here costs more than 40.00 to watch the entirety of it without interruptions. And the free part you see maybe 1 min. Of a scene. And have to constantly watch adds is simply not good. I give a thumbs down 👎 to this App.simply am not happy.
I like the movies this app has but I've found it hard to get the bonus points for watching more ads. Like others have stated in their reviews, I can throw $20 bucks into watching some chapters but at less than 1:30 seconds a chapter, it's not worth it especially with not being able to access the bonus points for watching more ads. I will be deleting this app after I finish the movie I'm currently watching. Other apps have better bonus point deals and much better accessibility.
I just installed, was not even caring about the ads, just watch one, and the story goes on. But then there are no more ads to watch and you have to buy coins. It's funny that is 55 coins to unlock next episode, and they are very short episodes, but for $4.99 you get 500 coins. Why not make it and even 50 per episode? Can barely afford life as it is, would have been nice to had a distraction that didn't add to the growing cost of day to day life
Cute stories. Annoying that I can only open 1 to 2 episodes by watching the bonus ads. Some stories give you the option to unlock 5 episodes in the short, some don't. I sometimes get the option to unlock episodes in the short with watching ads, I'll watch 1 then that option goes away and it's just bonuses that unlock. Not happy about that and not buying coins.
I liked it enough to buy a subscription for 1 year - a week into it, suddenly I had no access to the full videos despite the app itself confirming I had the full pass until Sept 2025. I have emailed their support 3 times over the past 3 weeks with no reply. I am out $200+ and am furious beyond belief that they cannot even muster a reply, let alone reinstate my access or refund my money. Either works for me, but as of right now, they've just stolen my money.
It's a cute app that has great short stories, but unless you are willing to pay to watch, it's going to take a long time for you to get enough credits to watch an episode as their add option freezes more then it works. I've been trying to get to mine for over a week now and it still won't work so I'm likely giving up after getting to finish the one in watching now. Sad, but true!
I cannot give this app 5 stars because they charge a lot for the episodes. The episodes are extremely short for the amount of coins that it charges. The dramas are good but can get extremely expensive if you aren't careful. I am not giving them a 2 or 3 because they do give you daily check in points and points for watching ads that will allow you to see an episode which again isn't very long. How I wish that they would make the episodes longer or less expensive.
They gave you chap 1-13 on YouTube and Instagram for free. Then they make you watch it again on the app and charge you. This app sucks! If I can give it a zero I would. Then for less then a minute of watching a chapter they want to charge 75 coins. you can watch a 30 second ad that freezes so now it's a min to only watch a clip for less than 1 min. This is a shame. I screen recorded! I don't want to read the lies. Very disappointing! I want to see how this story would play out! True Master come
Absolutely awful! You cannot get any coins by watching ads to continue watching. You can't even pay a price for an unlimited week like other apps. There is no way to watch anything beyond the first few episodes unless you are willing to pay incredible amounts of money. If you do pay, the price per episode burns through the coins almost instantaneously! If they want more people subscribing, they need to make it worth it to the subscriber. This is absolutely not worth your time!!!!!!!
*Edit* I just decided to pay for a month subscription and now I cannot access anything on the account. If this isn't fixed, I will be contacting my CC to cancel the transaction. Love the episodes here and the fact I can watch up to 10 free episodes a day by watching a few ads. Wish there was better pricing when it comes to subscriptions because I would definitely get one if it was more affordable for me.
You can only use the 10 episodes unlock feature for the first 15 episodes. After that, you no longer have the option. The ads from the rewards box only give you enough coins to unlock two episodes a day. It isn't worth the space on my phone. It sucks because the shows are pretty decent. I have both Reelshort and Dramabox, and I can unlock anywhere between 10-20 episodes daily. I will be deleting this app after I finish the one show that got me to download it in the first place.
This app would have been a a 5 if is wasn't so darn expensive >:[ I have been watching adds non stop to try to finish a series I would pay but I don't really have that kind of money. I would appreciate if you could get more free episodes just because I feel like that's what more people would expect,I also think unlimited adds would make this app better because sometimes there's a rly good series and I've used all my adds😅. it's upsetting I couldn't give this app a 5. other than that, i love it.
Not a bad app, it did have quite a few good shows on it and was worth $15.99 for a month. I only have 3 stars because now the price has gone up to $32.99 a month. While the app is good, it isn't good enough to pay that much for a month. Very few new shows added regularly unless you like A LOT of Asian shows and CONSTANTLY READING SUBTITLES. I decided to go back to my regular apps where new shows are added weekly for the same price.
The app worked great for a while, and i didn't mind watching ads for free coins, but ut hasnt been working right for over a month now, you can't watch the ads, nor can you purchase coins. You still can watch 5 free episodes a day, but you can't earn more points by watching 10 like before, either. It's crazy, I've got several dramas I've been watching on there, and now I can watch only about 5 minutes a day
The stories are good, but pricing is higher than other short-drama apps. The coins per episode increase every 4-5 episodes. After you reach episode 20, it locks you out, so you can only buy coins or watch 20 minutes of ads (all available bonus ads) for 1 episode. You can't figure out how many coins you need to buy (number keeps increasing), and you could end up paying nearly $40 for one story. The price per week is now $34.99 - other apps are $19.99. I will be uninstalling it.
LOVE THIS APP AND THE STORY LINES, BUT... some of the voiceovers for Chinese to English are not great, so I read the translation and turned off the volume. In one story, it's cringe because you can hear that it's the same voice actor for many characters and the kids' voices are grown adults, when it would have been better off in Chinese instead with the original actors' voices. Also, I had one glitch where, after unlocking the chapters, they locked back up, and I had to unlock them again.
Terrible app, misleading advertising. I have downloaded a few apps like this, and I've ended up uninstalling all of them. I downloaded this one because I got sucked into a story through repeated ads on social media. It said that the entire movie would be free for a limited time. It was not. The app didn't always give the rewards once you had earned them, and the chapters were ridiculously short. Never again!