ReelShort Reviews

Downloaded ReelShort not knowing that the story’s don’t last very long 1-2 minutes and then you can only watch 15 adds that will let you watch a free short story. I had 125 bonus and by watching a bunch of ads and I watched 1 short that was 44 and I have 20 left. The math isn’t matching for me. Isn’t 1+1=2 or did that change. Disappointed in ReelShort. Not worth buying if the math isn’t matching. Btw ads are so dang long and so extra. You watch the ad and then you push the X and have to wait another 5 seconds. Just to do it all over a gain. Short story could be longer to make it worth the time and money. Please fix the matching issue. (Wrote this review Sunday) Today Tuesday To whom this may concern, Whoever you are have responding to consumers has an attitude and neither do you as a developer and employee responding to your customers, do not value us as customers. If you don’t like our feed back about your app then don’t respond, and just fix the ALL the issues that is wrong with your app. Your app is not great. There is WAY TO MANY flaws with ReelShort . Treat your customers better…….. have a fantastic day!! Update I was interested in finishing the “BIG BAD HUSBAND PLEASE WAKE UP” just deal with watching all these ads. They stop letting you watch ads at video 51 out 55 forcing you to buy coins

I downloaded ReelShort because I love to read. Being a busy mom of 6, I do not have the time to sit and read a nice book so I thought “What the heck, why not?” You advertise that ReelShort is free… To start off it is not. ReelShort itself is free yes. But you all get paid double. So technically it is not. You have to watch ads in order to unlock new 1-2 minute video(you all get paid per person per ad) The reason they are 1-2 minute clips is because if you throw out a full episode, no one would really pay to get ads removed. They can just watch it and be done. Basically, promote the ad, every download pays the creator who then pays the promoter. (To my knowledge. I am not too familiar with how that works but money is being generated.) Now if you DO NOT want any ads, you have to PAY to remove the ads (Still getting paid). You’re breaking our pockets by filling yours. I get that bugs are being “fixed” but that’s really not the issue here. The issue is that for the amount of ads that we watch and the amount of time and money we spend on this “free app” we should be seeing WAY more than just 1-2 minutes. I refuse to watch anymore ads and as much as I want to see some of these amazing storylines, I cannot deal with these ads. Will definitely delete. I’ve had ReelShort for a week. I gave it a shot. Not wasting anymore time.

I initially enjoyed using ReelShort because it provided a few free stories, but over time, the excessive number of ads and the high cost to view a short story for just one minute became frustrating. Even the daily check-in rewards were not helpful, as the episode coins required were priced at 75 or more. In my opinion, ReelShort could only be considered good if the ads we watch and the coins we earn actually made sense, which is not currently the case. Additionally, it would greatly improve the experience if the short stories were extended to at least two minutes or more, as the length of the ads we have to watch before playing the episode is almost as long as the episode itself. The repetitiveness of the ads, particularly those for scamming apps like Bingo Cash, is annoying and irritating. ReelShort 's pricing structure for episodes, which becomes more expensive as we watch more, feels like we are being coerced into making purchases. It's disheartening because there are people in the world who cannot afford to spend money but still support ReelShort . Does ReelShort not care about them? This is why ReelShort 's rating is currently low, around 2.9, as it seems like ReelShort does not prioritize its customers.

I’m just gonna start by saying that I never review apps like this but after reading some I wanted to add my opinion. While I agree that the ads are a bit frustrating and the pay off of 1-2 min episodes may not be worth it to some, I think it’s a step in a direction I’m really excited for. I’ve read a lot of stories close to the ones ReelShort offers but haven’t seen one where it’s acted out. I absolutely love this. I would say that I wish the episodes were a bit longer to combat the time I watch the ads for free episodes. However I appreciate that it offers 20 free a day which is a lot more than I’ve seen with other apps and you have the chance to earn some by watching more ads. I keep seeing responses to the reviews given are self reflecting and I hope they truly mean it. It may not be exactly what I’d wish it to be but it’s definitely awesome as a start up.

ReelShort has lots of potential, reminds me of the story writing apps I used when I was younger and wanting to see them as shows or movies. The only problem is that no one’s patience is that long unless they are a child to sit and watch so many ads for short clipped episodes. It took me an hour to watch twenty 50 second clips due to watching ads to unlock them. Then I thought about buying coins but if the series has 60 episodes and each are mostly 40-50 coins that’s around 3000 coins I’d have to buy just for one series. The shows are awesome so are the actors and the stories I would watch these all day at work. Maybe If they were to have monthly plans and make the episodes longer or even increase the amount of coins for refills. Or maybe the first ten clips make them longer with ads and the rest can be shorter with ads….. Or maybe when you unlock the episodes with coins you bought the episodes are longer compared to unlocking them with ads.

So far I’ve enjoyed, then as I exit an ad for getting my bonus coins, a box pops up saying bonus coins rewards only last five days. I find this a little scammy. Like why can’t I keep my coins pocketed in case I find a new series and want to spend them on that six days after earning them? Well now I can’t, and I can’t enjoy the profits of me spending my time watching the ads. I’d definitely fix that to where bonus coins don’t expire. We as consumers of your app shouldn’t have to waste time on ads for rewards if they expire that quick or at all. We don’t get that time back, however your app makes money off the ads you use. Some people don’t use there phone constantly what happens when they get back on ReelShort after hiatus and all their coins are gone? They’re gonna be mad, and give a lower rating than this. I sincerely hope this gets updated and fixed. It would be worth it more to watch your ads if our rewards didn’t vanish.

I like watching the stories. Kind of reminds me of Wattpad books coming to life. I just don’t like how constantly have to spend money in order to watch the stories. There’s adds you can watch in order to unlock an episode at a time and to earn coins to also unlock. The videos range from 50 seconds to 2ish minutes. To me, it’s not worth it to buy coins to watch the episodes. And the episodes costs so many coins. It takes me a few days to finish one just because I don’t want to pay for the coins and I use ads to watch. Or the coins I earn from checking in daily and also watching ads. I wish the ads weren’t limited. I also wish ReelShort was like other apps to where they have free stories and/or just run ads the entire time instead of making us having to pay. That’s only reason why I didn’t give it a 5 star rating.

ReelShort is still very new so I understand the amount of ads. Im hoping very soon that the amount you need to watch in order to get further into the story will be less, but atm it is a lot. The videos are 1-2 minutes long before you have to watch a 30-45 second ad. They do give you quite a few bonuses in a day to be able to watch more than the 20 free (with the ads) that you get in a day. So if you commit to watching the ads & the bonus ads to earn coins, you can watch about 25-30 episodes which is quite a bit. They do offer a way to purchase the coins to watch more also.
Looks like a great way for these actors to be seen & find supporters. I just wish there was a section to view who the actors are. Their acting is great for what I would assume are newer actors.
Definitely hooked to Fated to my Forbidden Alpha. Worth the watch!

My first issue with ReelShort it not story or how long or short they are it has to do with the free video option where if u watch 15 ads u get 15 episodes but tht is not even close to the truth, u will get a max of 10 episodes to watch, when u start watch the video make sure u count them, I watch the 1st one them it said I watch 2 free videos when I watch one it skips over number 2, 6, 9, 13, 15 too offer something and not follow threw or cheat people out of it is kinda on the f up side.
My second issue is the auto play never turn off even when u turn it off, I don’t like auto play cuz I might not want to watch the next episode at tht point in time to have to turn it off between every episode is ridiculous
My third issue is most of the video I watch only have sound but the following episodes have picture with the sound, it weird trying to assume wht going on without knowing wht going on, with some short story it hard it picture wht is going on without being able to see it

I was a bit miffed when I noticed some episodes are about 40 seconds, then there were other episodes that went on for almost 2 minutes. 15$ can get you quite a few episodes and get through a lot of the story (just watch out for the auto button). 👀😆 I’m giving 4 stars because the amount of episodes you get vs ads to watch them for free are not very equal in my opinion, I still love the acting and giggle with some parts! 😆 They’re like a cute B rated show with better writing and I love it. 😄 lol

I really wish the story was longer instead of a whole minute maybe 2 depending on what your reading & I would mind ads if it the chapters or what ever you called it was maybe 4-5 min not every minute. I’m not going to download anything it shows me & the ads seem so long! I would rather read a storyline then watch it at this point. The stories are not really boring it’s the shortness of them then the stupid ads and not to mention they want you to buy coins just to watch it and I tried it like 3 times but $30 dollars later & it went by in less then 5-10 min. After this one I’m watch cuz I already paid for it I’m probably going to download a reading one. You get more from it and less ads. Maybe if you can figure out how to make them longer and less ads and another was to get coins I’ll probably keep it or keep checking back for updates.

So i have been on ReelShort for about 2-3 weeks my overall experience, i have seen 3 short films all great, out of the three the only story by partially disliked was the boss affair. The story lines are very interesting keeps u hooked the problem i have is the 45 seconds for each part plus 30 seconds for each ad up to 20 ads a day. Then each part isnt even the same coin amount i paid for 1500 coins and for my first time bonus i got an additional 1500 that was definitely great but as i said because all parts are the not the same amount it didnt last long made me feel like i was cheated out of my money. Because i have to wait until the 20 ads are restored i tend to forget about the story even though its on my main screen, which is sad because the plot was just getting interesting. I hope the creators or team sees my review and make necessary changes otherwise we might have to part ways

I downloaded ReelShort a few days ago and really thought it was going to be a great cool app but it does have its flaws. In order to watch the short story for free it’s mandatory you have to watch an ad and then if you want to watch the next one with out having to watch an ad you have to pay with your coins an unnecessary amount. Then they give bonus coins but it’s not even enough to unlock the next episode and again in order to earn enough coins you have to watch a million ads and/or pay for the coins. The stories are good and interesting but it’s not worth going through all the hassle to earn coins and watching the content. 15-30 coins a day is not enough when unlocking an episode is 45 coins and higher. Make it make sense, how your going to promote your app saying it’s worth it but when you download it it’s not worth it

So you need to watch what you think is 60 ads because it’s broken up in to 60 episodes and each ad is as long as an episode. Fine I get it you need to make money. But once you get to 55 they drag it out I just had to watch 6 ads to watch 2 episodes and I’ll have to come back tomorrow and watch a minimum of 6 more ads it’s just way too much. And I can see paying $1-$2 per episode if you want to skip the ads but it would cost a fortune. I really don’t see ReelShort as becoming popular because of how they milk the ads in the end. It’s like they want you to uninstall right after the ending. And that’s what I’ll do. I don’t mind watching ads in a fair way. I play an app for a year and a half now and watch a minimum of 30-40 ads a day but when an app gets greedy like this one it’s asking for failure.

I’m not interested in watching a bunch of ads. I want to watch the stories. I don’t know if it is the case with all the stories but to only get through 6 sentences of dialogue between characters and then have to watch an ad to continue is a little ridiculous. I understand you need to make money to provide content and I don’t mind watching the ads, but you are calling yourself the next generation of streaming and comparing yourself to TV and other streaming services and it is just no comparison. I would rather pay a subscription fee to watch a full show than to have to watch an ad literally every 1-2 minutes. If the streaming industry had started out this way, it wouldn’t have lasted a week. Even free streaming services let you watch at least 15 minutes of a show before an ad. I can’t see ReelShort being around for long unless you change your business model.

this app is exactly that really short lol the stories are great but they give you about 3 mins of a add per 30 seconds of story an you can only watch 20 ads plus the 6 bonus ads for coins and the daily check in coins so you are watching maybe 10-15 mins of the actual story a day if your not buying coins and 30 mins + of ads I don’t mind the ads they have to make money somehow if your not buying coins I just wish they made the episodes more than 30 seconds each an worth less coins the episodes can range up to 60 coins maybe more for one episode if they made all the episodes the same amount of coins an a bit longer maybe 3-5 mins each then I might actually buy some coins but it’s not worth it right now

I watched the first 20 episodes of a show on instagram and was interested in finishing the show I was watching. It said it cost 63 coins which I thought was for the whole show. I bought 500 coins for $5 thinking I could watch a couple good shows. I click to unlock what I thought was a show but then apparently it never asks again and just charges you each episode you click on! Somehow I paid for 8 episodes I had already seen without knowing it! It didn’t even ask me to purchase after the first one! Awful I completely wasted $5 in less than 5 seconds and had no idea! There is no way I would have spent my money in this scam if I knew what they were really charging!!! Who in their right mind would pay $5 for 10 20 second episodes. I can get Netflix for $10 a month!! Is this seriously a joke? I feel taken advantage of.. wow just wow!

So I watched all the little 6 ads so I could finish one of the reels I got to about 134 then they were all out so I was watched one of the episodes after I tryed to buy a new one they said I had no coins left I was confused cause they only cost 41 coins I had 134 I go to look at how much I have left and there is 0 left the math is not adding up & it’s ridiculous I should have been able to watch about 1 or 2 more episodes pls fix this because I really do like ReelShort but it’s so much wrong with it, it makes me also not even want to spend money cause if I buy coins & watch a episode will it take it all away then I spend the money for no reason I need this to be fixed pls cause I want to actually enjoy ReelShort & spend money on it

I read a previous review about how short the episodes are and I couldn’t agree more. Your response said that the clips are longer which isn’t true literally 5 of the episodes I’ve watched were 46 seconds long. I don’t care too much about the ads but another issue is some episodes are just Black with the sound. Each episode should be at least 3 minutes long. I haven’t come across one that more than 1 minute 7 seconds long. They are also expensive and I’m not paying 43 coins for a 1 minute episode or less.

ReelShort is okay YALL just tryin to break ppls pockets and give us short episodes. We work hard for the money we are spending on these apps not to get screwed. I will be deleting ReelShort from my phone once I finish the one I’m watching.

Trust me y’all the story lines are great and it really hooks you in but first off you have to unlock the next episode by watching an ad which is longer than the episode itself!! Thennnn after watching more ads than I have ever watched them in my life!!! Three episodes before the story ends it won’t let you watch the next episode without buying coins!!! Do you know how many ads I invested in watching just to get so close to the end only to have it in reach at the tips of my fingers to be snatched away by the fact that now that they have REELED you in you now have to PAYYY!!! I’m still so upset I can’t even look at ReelShort without my blood boiling!! SAVE YOURSELF AND DONT DOWNLOAD ReelShort!!

It’s actually very annoying that you have to watch a 30 second - minute long advertisement after EVERY SINGLE EPISODE which themselves are only 30 seconds - a minute long. That’s why I’m giving it 2 stars. It would be more understandable if you had to watch ads after every 5 episodes, but after every single one shows the consumers are not a priority. AND they put a 20 advertising watch limit. So if a series has 60 episodes, you can only watch 20 episodes if you watch the adds without using earned coins/ buying coins. Again, that’s not putting your consumer first.

Like most games/ other apps, you can earn coins with daily logins, watching 6 ads to earn coins. That’s normal, but making viewers watch ads that are as long or longer than the episodes especially after every single episode is a little ridiculous.

I wanted to give them 5 stars but they just shortened the videos per day from 20 to 15 without notice. I mean, I guess it’s still generous but not I have to wait longer. Also I think they upped the videos that don’t work with ads, you actual have to use coins to pay for them. One more thing, when the actors kiss, it sounds disgusting when they break the kiss, any way to edit that out?

Now that I have the cons out of the way, here are some things I love. They have great content, although I wish there was more wolf stuff. You can basically see most of the content for free if you are patient. If you are extra patient you CAN see it all for FREE! The acting by some is extra cheesy but the fact that they are willing to act out the dialog that is written, is cool. Also, even though it’s new they have quite a bit of content. I hope they make more. I would even donate to have them make more content. That’s the thing, when a company isn’t forcing you to buy, to see their content, it makes you want to help them succeed.

I love the idea of bite sized episodic series of silly lil dramatic stories. The issue I have with this is the cost and the amount of time wasted on ads. You can buy a ticket to go see a blockbuster film in full for less money than it would cost to unlock every episode of a 60 episode series. If all 60 episodes only cost 30 coins to unlock, that’s still 1800 coins, which is more than 15 dollars! Each episode is 40 to 90 seconds long, let’s say the average is 70 seconds to be generous. Over 60 episodes, that’s only about 70 minutes of content total, less than the time a big Oscar-worthy movie should take to watch. And it costs more?? Why???
And don’t get me started with the ads, I saw on another review that the ads are anywhere from 5 to 30 seconds long, I didn’t get a single ad that was less than 30 seconds, and I watched over 20 ads. That means that at best, I was watching ads for 1/3 of the time that I was watching stuff on ReelShort. And at worst? HALF OF THE TIME was spent watching ads! You can literally do better on cable television, at least the ads are only about a quarter of what you’re watching.

Tldr: ad opportunities seem generous but massively waste time, and the cost of coins is exorbitant. Please do better!

Honestly, with all the mixed reviews I wasn’t even going to download this. But after a bunch of ads for it I decided to try. The stories themselves are actually pretty good and interesting enough to keep watching. The actors and acting isn’t bad but it can feel a little hard to watch at times because it isn’t the greatest. The ads issue is a little iffy. While I don’t mind watching the ads, they are annoying but it’s standard ads you get on any mobile game. What’s annoying is watching an ad and then only get 30-40 second videos before getting another ad. If the reels were all equally 1-2 minutes long I wouldn’t mind them nearly as much. It definitely encourages you to spend money on coins or to do things for coins. You only get 20 ads to watch a day. After that you need coins to keep watching. Which also wouldn’t be so bad but one single reel costs 50 coins. Other than that, if you like this kind of thing it’s definitely worth a try.

You can really tell they put tons and tons of effort into the high quality productions, but the acting couuulld use a little work. But hey, I’m not complaining about something free, what I AM complaining about is A. how ReelShort doesn’t even allow me to watch the ads for the episodes half the times. It says “Video not ready” most of the time and you need to refresh or wait a couple hours and come back. It does the same with you don’t finish watching the previous episode, so you have to watch to the episode to the very last second. B. When you get to the end of the episodes you can ONLY use coins, meaning you either have to pay or watch 4-5 ads to unlock one of the last episodes. And C. the lack of variety in Ads. I really don’t mind watching them, but it gets extremely torturous after your 100th Royal Match ad that we all know is not an accurate representation of the actual game. I feel if the apps wasn’t as frustrating to navigate and use and an improvement in the acting could easily bump up the rating to 5 stars.

I don’t usually leave reviews.
The shows are great. If you watch for free you have to watch an Ad every minute or two to continue watching can get annoying but I get that ReelShort has to profit somehow. After you run out of free watching Ads you have to pay. I tried the $4.99 coins thinking it would last for the remaining amount of the show but it didn’t. Maybe it was just the specific show that I was watching. Who knows. It only lasted through a quarter of what was remaining , so ReelShort possibly eats away at your money using the tactics thats provoking me to leave 3 stars. At the start of every video it overlaps the end of the last clip, taking up watch time. The section of each video isn’t that long.

I’d recommend making the video clips longer and to not overlapping the start and end of the video so that it doesn’t take up watch time. But I’m just a consumer. ReelShort does all of that because they profit off of the consumer. So….

I downloaded ReelShort because I found myself getting invested in the “Fated to My Forbidden Alpha” story that I was seeing on TikTok Ads. I downloaded ReelShort and finished 22 episodes within a very short amount of time. The ‘episodes’ are only about a minute (or less) long and there is a 15-30 second ad after every episode. This makes it nearly impossible to enjoy the episodes and gain any satisfaction out of it. I don’t understand the point of having such short episodes with so many long ads. They say to use the bonuses, but the bonuses you can gain in a day is MAYBE enough to watch an extra episode. I understand the need to make money but maybe longer episodes and ads after every 5 episodes? There are much better ways to go about this that pleases your audience and your business. I will say, I am enjoying the show which makes this situation all the more aggravating. By how this is going, it will take me 3 days to watch a hour(ish) worth of show.

To start off I want to say the story lines for certain stories are absolutely brilliant, and detailed for such short videos however with that being said, it is super annoying to have to continuously watch ads in the middle of a story line. The ads are so repetitive I feel like just deleting ReelShort altogether. Make it to where your listeners are actually able to watch 2-3 videos without ads popping up every single time it switches to a new episode. Also, the coin portion is ridiculously expensive/impossible to get so many coins to watch just ONE video that’s no more than a minute long. Not only are they outrageously priced, when you go to earn free coins it makes you watch ads, not a big deal but once you use your 20 ads; you’re unable to get coins to watch and or use the ads to keep unlocking the episodes. I really want to keep ReelShort but if this continues I’ll probably just delete it.

I can look past the bad acting with the showing wires in the bigger shoes and such like that however, when it comes to being able to look at other episodes, it’s a little different. It almost seems like I would need to watch an entire story before I can start the next one that way I don’t use all my coins, which is fine I can work with that. The only thing that can’t seem a little more of a damper for me is that there’s not that many stories that are to my liking not saying that the store is a bad just saying that they’re just not my type, which is OK to each their own I like the whole werewolf paranormal world, but I love story is a love story so yes, there could be some improvements but for the resources that are given to them I think it is an OK app

So yes the episodes are about 1:30-2:00 mins. Some are mixed with previews and recaps. However, I’m wondering if they developers are reading reviews and fix as they go along. Yes there are ads! However, they are not as bad as before. You can watch up to 15-20 ads and receive coins or episodes (sometimes 2). Which can help watch the stories. The stories are cute, the acting no one is winning a Oscar anytime soon. However they do well for what they are given. If the developers continue to listen to reviews. This might just become a decent app to have :)

Ads, everything comes with ads! Then you have to buy coins to watch the stores. I believe the “episodes” are maybe 1 min and half at best. Then you have the option to watch an ad or pay for coins. However, you are limited to 20 ads in a 24 hour period. How to earn coins, ads there’s a limit there too. Each episode varies in coins so in the 30s others near 50. Stories are your typical type booktok werewolf rejected or billionaire made to marry girl no one wants. The price isn’t worth it. Not by a long shot!

Really like the concept and format of ReelShort however the short “fated to my forbidden alpha” is a total rip off of another story called “My miracle luna (blue lake series)” on the Dreame app. Whether intentional or not, it’s clear that the short’s story was either copied from or “inspired by” the book on Dreame app. Ironically I was rereading the book when I came across ReelShort and was intrigued by a video adaptation of a werewolf romance which is what the book is as well. However, the plot is exactly the same. Both girls are slaves to a pack that attacked their home pack. Both find out their mate is the alpha of the attacking pack, with a slight difference being that in the book it is the son who is becoming the alpha, on the girls 18th birthday. Both girls get rescued from the attacking pack by being rejected by their original mate and getting a 2nd chance mate in a visiting alpha who are both the alpha of the largest pack in both versions. Some quotes are even verbatim from the book in the short’s version. And that’s just from watching the first few episodes.

I have seen the preview of this on Instagram/ tik tok. It caught my attention, I seen it a couple of times and decided to put ReelShort on my phone and watch this show along with the alpha show. I just started with ReelShort , I like the shows but not sure if I will keep using ReelShort to continue to watch the shows it is very annoying for me. You watch one episode which is very short and then you have to watch an ad just to be able to see the next episode. It gives you the option to buy coins, but because I am not sure how much the coins cost I wouldn’t recommend purchasing them. So I have just been watching ads just to see the next episode. If the episode could be at least 2-3 minutes long it probably wouldn’t be so bad. But I don’t have the time or patience to keep watching ads just to be able to watch something, after every episode.

I like a lot others downloaded ReelShort to dog on it and be like haha that’s funny b lame but imma be honest I need this turned into episodes like at least 10-20 min episodes the only thing I don’t like is that ReelShort needs some revising honestly like the coins don’t show up sometimes and u can only wast h 20 free episodes of like 45-1:30 each then watch a 3 min ad but I actually really like the characters and the acting is a little it could be a bit more realistic sounding but it’s amateurs starting out most likely they are doing good if u like Wattpad and reading stuff that don’t have movies cause no one would make it cause it’s more so a group thing then this is what u will like

I didn’t expect to enjoy ReelShort as much as I did. The stories are so intriguing and I was a little shocked to see K-dramas. I do wish that some of the K-dramas weren’t voiced by English actors though. I prefer just reading subtitles. It gets irritating when the mouth and words don’t match. I’m not the biggest fan of the ad situation, but I also don’t mind it either. I wish every episode was 2 minutes long and that there wasn’t a recap at the beginning. I noticed there aren’t many shows but I don’t know how long ReelShort has been a thing so I hope more are to come. Overall I love ReelShort . The acting is cringe at times but not as bad as some reviews make it seem. I can tell there’s a low budget so I wouldn’t expect too much anyway. Plus I feel like bad acting can make shows funnier. Still ReelShort eats every show it puts out. I get so invested off of just a trailer. I feel like the use of adds and coins brings back what it felt like to watch shows on cable TV. Sometimes the anticipation made the show better. I also loved commercial bathroom breaks. At least I’m not waiting for a 1-2 minute clip everyday. I only have to watch an ad.

I was sucked in by a commercial for one of the shows on ReelShort. The episodes are about a minute each. The first 2 days you could watch 20 commercials and watch 20 episodes. Then day 3, you could no longer watch that many commercials you could only collect the daily bonus of coins (20 coins for the first few days) and watch 7 commercials totaling 175 coins. Sounds great right? Except each 1 minute episode runs anywhere from 59 to 117 coins (that I have seen so far). But if you’re impatient you can buy coins - depending on how many you buy it is basically 100 coins for $1. So the show I am watching is 49 one minute episodes and for ease of math we will call the episodes 100 coins each - $49 for a 49 minute show. But of course you can keep doing it for free except now for the last 2 days I can only collect the 20 free coins for logging in and none of the videos will load- tried multiple times throughout the day, so it is going to take days to finish the last 2 episodes. Not sure if I really care enough to hang on to see the resolution. Save yourself the hassle of downloading ReelShort . The one positive I can say is the story is pretty interesting and the acting isn’t bad, but not worth this.

Although this app advertises content for as little as a dime per episode, my experience has been that the actual cost is closer to $2 per episode. Like WebToon and other services, you pay for a certain number of coins and then use coins to buy episodes. The coins make it easier to lose sight of how much you’ve spent, so it can add up quickly. There are also weird changes to the cost per episode so it’s not consistent. One episode will cost 76 coins, then another will cost 50, only to shoot back up to over 80 coins needed. This inconsistent pricing also makes it harder to understand how much you’re spending.

While you do have the option to watch ads to unlock episodes, you have to watch them every two episodes, meaning you are watching ads every four to six minutes which gets frustrating. Also, there is a limit on how many ads you can watch in a day.

The stories are interesting, but I recommend really taking time to calculate how many coins you need to watch a full season and compare it to how much the coin packages are. this app should really get rid of the deceptive “dime per episode” statement.

So I see a brief story line that interests me, I click on the ad to watch it and with in 5 minutes I’m disappointed and aggravated. The first five minutes maybe played out nicely and then the ads popped up. Nothing I didn’t expect. However I would soon learn that after those five minutes I would only got to watch 45 -60 seconds at a time before another ad would show up. And then that ad for the SAME game would play for a minute to a minute and 15 seconds before I could go back to the show I was watching. The ads were LONGER than the movie clips.
And if that’s not bad enough, you can only choose to watch the ads (so you can see the next “episode” of the show) 20 times and then you’re cut off for the day unless you want to PAY FOR COINS.
After 3 days of dealing with the ads so I could watch the next episode, I then could not watch an ad to go any further. If I wanted to see the last 5 episodes, I had to PURCHASE COINS. Which is now a waste of money because I’m deleting ReelShort .
Don’t waist your time or money only to be aggravated!

I am so disappointed I watched one of the reels and was excited. The storyline sounded good, so I said why not ReelShort is free. I got ReelShort then I realized episodes were small clips, like a minute or two per clip. I also noticed that I had like 20 commercials for free which I thought would take me through the end of the show. I was going to have to watch them, which is no big deal to me because sometimes I like a good commercial, then I realized after getting completely sucked into the show I was watching that I was finished with the commercials and couldn’t watch anymore and I have no earthly idea how and when I’m going to get more commercials to watch so I can finish the story. I’m going to finish the story at some point, whenever I can figure out how to get more free commercials. Then when I’m finished with that, I am also finished with ReelShort because I looked and I am not paying $29 to watch a show. It’s absolutely ridiculous. The idea was pretty good. The stories that I’ve seen so far look like they’re good, acting in so so, I would’ve been willing to pay a minimal fee to watch, but $29 for one show. Absolutely not! The best of luck with this. I’m sure this is for someone just not for me!

I am a sucker for short stories like this, so when I saw that they were being made into films, I was so excited! I read a lot of reviews about the ads. To be honest, I didn’t really mind the ads. You will watch about a minute and a half of the movie before you have to watch an ad that is longer than the clip you watched from the movie. Yes it’s annoying, yes it’s an incentive for you to buy coins, yes it’s the same over and over, yes you can only watch 20 of them a day and then you have to wait. But to be honest, I really didn’t mind that. I came to expect it and it was still worth it with the film I was watching.
But then, after I continued on with it, I am almost at the tail end of my movie, and when I pulled it up, it now says I have to login using Facebook? I really don’t understand that, I’ve watched the majority of this movie and continued to watch their continual ads without having to log into my social media account. That’s when I deleted ReelShort . I’m already watching thousands of ads and viewing them more and more then I’m even viewing the movie. You are getting all my viewing time, why do you want my social media?? 3 stars, because this stories are intriguing, but it comes with a very annoying price.

These people are clearly Shiesty you literally get like three lines worth of viewing and then you have to watch a 30 second or more advertisement they make it to where you can’t even take the crap. All they want is your money that’s why they do this it is a rip off these people clearly are really hurting for money and don’t care about ReelShort. They try and say oh it’s user-friendly such good short stories. Yeah the stories are good too bad you can’t even watch a fourth of one a day. You have to watch 20 ads a day and then you have to wait a full 24 hours before you can finish and their packages are like $100 to pay for nobody’s gonna pay this these actors are so cheesy. It is ridiculous, it’s like trying to watch a soap opera in only getting to watch like maybe 15/22 worth a day because you have to watch more and ads than anything else. This frustrates me beyond belief I’m uninstalling ReelShort because clearly these people are super poor if they’re trying to sit and take advantage of people in this way and then when you go to reviews if they don’t like what you posted when you tell the truth, they only post the good reviews so they don’t even care to listen to you and what people actually think why do you think and every single episode, they talk about gold diggers, because the people who make ReelShort clearly are golddiggersI am infuriated. I’m uninstalling right now.

ReelShort is okay and there are some fantastic looking shows but there are a few infuriating features of ReelShort that I wish was changed. So I just downloaded it, I just started watching this series, and so far I like it but I can never get enough watch time in with how short they are.. nor do I have any coins to unlock the episodes freely, and it’s kind of sad that you limit your ads to five instead of them being infinite.. by the time tomorrow’s arrived I’m not even going to be interested anymore. And that’s upsetting bc I love omegaverse and pack dynamics mixed with human life..I’d really suggest at least taking the add limitation off, or maybe leave the ads but remove the locked episode feature or something.. but nine times out of ten you guys either won’t listen, or will come up with some excuse about the apps functions like other devs who’ve made stuff like this.

It was nice making my review, hopefully it could be taken into consideration or something. 🤷🏻

ReelShort content is okay and hence the reason why I want to watch the content. Unfortunately, it is very time consuming and not worth the time spent or money to keep watching. Foremost I watched a clip of the series the double life of my billionaires husband on Instagram and I was intrigued so I decided to download ReelShort . I signed in and immediately all episodes are locked so you cannot select where you left of but have to start from the beginning. Episodes are 1.30 minutes long so I said okay let me fast forward it to unlock the next episodes so I may start where I left off. Unfortunately, ReelShort only allows you to watch 5 ads per day which are to unlock episodes by watching ad option. After you have watch the 5 ads it will prompt you to spend coins/bonuses to keep on watching the episodes. Per episode they charge you from 40-81 coins and I think even more as I only was able to unlock one with all the free bonuses add watching. My suggestions is that it should be a subscription based without ads however, they will not because adding 1-2 minute ads per video played generates more money than having a monthly subscription per person. Would not recommend ReelShort to no one.

I downloaded this from Instagram because the story clips were so good and entertaining. And in the beginning it was fine. You get like a few eps free for new stories you start. However it just takes too long to gain coins to unlock stories. You can pay 100$ for 10,000 coins but each clip costs differently. I assume based off of popularity. I’d say the clips are 30-70 coins per clip per story. The auto purchase is automatically turned on so you spend coins without even knowing it. You can watch 7 ads per day for a total of 165 coins. In theory this is good. I actually wouldn’t mind paying a subscription for all free access instead of having to pay so much money to just enjoy one story. It’s about 20 bucks per story but again it differs due to length of each story. So overtime I just stopped using it and will be uninstalling just because it’s too much work and too much money to just watch episodes.

Good thing though is the customer service is very quick to respond to inquiries. Practically within a few hours.

The chapters are about 1 minute long…I’m not kidding. You have to pay for every minute you watch lol….its insane. I got all the freebie bonus and watched all the ads I could for the day and it got me approximately 15 min worth of content….BUT it’s interrupted content. Part of the daily bonus is having to watch 2-3 min ads to watch 1 minute. It sucks….im glad I tested it out by getting all the daily bonus and watching ads before I spent money. You are going to get very little out of ReelShort but will spend a fortune. Who wants to waste their time collecting all the daily bonus to watch only a few minutes a day of interrupted content to get through the story?? I rather just buy a good book or audio book for $20 and save myself the frustration and money. ReelShort could make so much money if the chapters were 5 min longer and less expensive…. more people would stick around and willing to put money into this product but I don’t think the creators behind these apps are smart enough for that. I can tell by the responses to everyone’s reviews are just bots….they don’t care about anyone’s suggestions. Do yourself a favor and don’t get sucked in to these ridiculous apps.

I saw an add for this and it looked interesting. I don’t watch TV or binge shows because I don’t have the time. I thought ReelShort would be perfect. It’s been 3 days and I’m not even through 1 show. I got a little less than 2 minutes before I had to watch a 40 second commercial. I got about 45 seconds of the next “episode” before I had another 40 second commercial. I had about 39 seconds on the 3 “episode” before I had a 45 second commercial. The commercials stop for the day so you need to wait until the next day. The next day the first episode started with the last one from the day before and I had to watch a commercial. I did t get as many commercials as I did the day before. Now it’s my 3rd day of trying to watch this to get to the end and I got last episode from yesterday and 2 commercials and I can’t get any further. This was supposed to be a “free” app. I’m not paying to finish the episode. If I can’t watch the last 3 tomorrow, I will delete ReelShort . It’s not worth the money. The last 3 episodes are more than my monthly Netflix subscription. Just doesn’t seem worth it. I have no problem watching free ads so they can get paid, but the ads should no be longer than the episode segment your watching. Not worth the time if your as busy as I am and don’t have 12 days to watch what is only about 30 minutes of a show.

So I just downloaded this and watched my first movie. It was absolutely awesome. But as an African-American woman, I was a little disappointed when I scrolled through the other stories, I didn’t see any diversity other than one story that appeared to have a Latino family, and another story that had a few Asian people in the supporting cast. I am not fixated on race whatsoever as I just paid $35 to watch one of their mini movies which really captured me, but as I’m scrolling through I see almost 0 diversity, which was a little disappointing for me personally. it would’ve been nice to see at least one or two mini movies with a leading lady as a woman of color literally any color. This is not by any means to race baiting comment as I married to a Caucasian man, but if you want to appeal to a more diverse audience, I would start casting with a little bit more diversity in other than maybe one token person per movie.

EDIT: Ok so I waited and wanted to give a fair chance watched a few series of short films and then decided let me get my bonuses stack them up so I can watch one all the way thru but all week long they give u 175 in bonuses if it gives u all of them but then it takes 150 everyday if you don’t watch them immediately this entire app is pretty much a scam to waste your time and have you watching the same adds repeatedly as soon as I’m done I’m deleting ReelShort it’s definitely not for me!!!!

This is by the worst short film app I’ve ever used #1 watch ads to get free episodes #2 thos ads immediately transfer u to download an app #3 it almost forces u to download them as there is no way exit #4 if u don’t it download apps u do not receive the points since u have to close ReelShort to exit fb should be ashamed of themselves for letting them advertise this on their platform. Omg after months I get a response email asking which apps which is outright comical because you watch the same ones over and over again. Not to mention the option to edit my review so I chose to do so after providing screenshots from today just for entertainment purposes they know which ads I’ve watched each of them at least 5 times to watch literally 5 episodes but the proof provided is recent and they literally don’t care about the experience at all!!!!!

It appears to be like hallmark type love story movies for “free” because you can supposedly watch ads daily that enable you to get points to buy more time but the amount you earn to watch is ridiculous! Some of the clips that my 50 points got me were only just over 1 minute long! After I used all my free joining points and daily bonuses plus spent $5, I was still not even a quarter of the way through one movie and had wasted so much time! I will never get back this time I wasted and I will never even know how the stupid story ends and it’s aggravating as heck. Soooooo bad. Do not waste your time. Lesson learned again on why I generally try to stay away from apps- there are so few that aren’t a complete money grabbing waste of time…the fact that $5 plus like 15+ ads isn’t enough to watch one incredibly cheaply made, cheaply acted, cheaply everything, movie, is ridiculous. Plus the fact that there’s no free trial on the weekly or yearly subscription is super telling. I think the movies are probably annoying to watch because they will stop so much where the typical ad breaks would’ve been. Start, stop, start, stop- over and over is not enjoyable. And anyone considering shelling out $200 for a year of this would realize that on their free trial and cancel.

The gimmick is give you 5 minutes straight to get you hooked on the “show” then they want you to pay or watch ads for 20-60 seconds of clip at a time. Originally you could watch up to 5 ads each day per “show” to make it so far. Now you can only watch 5 ads total not per show to get so far! The rewards section is where they get you, be careful that you actually get your reward and mindful that you aren’t rewatching an ad/bonus you already watched because it will glitch and stay on the same ad/bonus button just to make you watch an extra ad but get no reward. Your bonus reward options are always sketch. Start off you can get 170 bonus coins a day over 7 ads with a wait time of 15 seconds between watching now you get 150 bonus coins over 10 ads and a wait time of 60 seconds! That’s three additional ads and 20 less coins and a longer wait time! Now you can only watch 5 ads extra total not per show to get so far! How is that right? And some of the actors are so freaking horrible and the story lines are just retellings of other stories on here or elsewhere. Not worth it. I’m going to be deleting ReelShort…..

I wish I could give this negative stars. I saw a clip on tiktok so thought I’d check it out. You get a couple free clips (maybe 3 minutes). Then you have to use points or watch ads. You can only watch 5 ads, each ad being 95 seconds long (and each clip is about 80-90 seconds). There’s a couple free things you can do to collect points, but it will only get you 1 or 2 clips further. And when a movie is 76 clips, that’s next to nothing. So then you are either forced to pay a crazy amount for points ($10 for 1k points which gets you 11-12 clips. And when a movie is 76 clips, that means you’ll pay $60 for just 1 movie) or $20 A WEEK to get everything “free” for the week!!!!! And the wording they put makes it sound like you get a free week before they charge you, but you don’t (thankfully I didn’t fall for it, but it would be SO EASY to do)! On top of that, the one I was watching (and I heard the content others we’re watching as well) is easy to find elsewhere where you can just watch a couple of ads and not have to pay $80 a month! So it’s not even like it’s exclusive content. This premium price is 100% NOT for a premium service. I have no idea how it has so many 4 and 5 star reviews! I would go as far as to say ReelShort is a scam with as misleading as everything is.

If you could add outstanding episodes to watch under the icon of each miniseries, instead of the current view of (x/xx)it will enhance the customer’s experience and keep us engaged while using ReelShort . I came to be entertained not to do math, no matter how simple it may be. For all of you who were patient enough to build up your coins, to then find out about the post 5 day expiration, I thank you! For those of you paying out of pocket for 1 min episodes, thanks for your donations to making ReelShort thrive. I’m patient enough to watch my episodes daily for free. Already seen 10 full mini series with bonus coins absolutely free. Currently watching 6 miniseries simultaneously. I’m surprised how the following shows aren’t as popular: oh no slept with my husband…and 30 days till I marry my husband’s nemesis, that red head actress has acting skills. I love how this platform is opening up opportunities for young actors out of film school. And the chemistry between actors looks real for the most part. Love your content and app. Wish I could be rewarded more for using ReelShort daily.