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NetShort - Popular Dramas & TV

iOSv2.3.3, 2026-09-26netshort.comApp Store
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What it is

NetShort is a mobile app for streaming vertical short dramas, with episodes lasting a few minutes in genres such as romance, fantasy, revenge and mystery, for viewers who watch on their phones.

Maker
NETSTORY PTE. LTD.
Launched
Jul 2024
Category
Entertainment
Price
Free, subscriptions $6.99 to $29.99
US ratings
215K, 4.7 avg
Best rank
#97 grossing, US
  • Made by NETSTORY PTE. LTD. [App Store]
  • Described as a short-drama app under Maiya Culture [BidMachine]
  • Launched two years behind its competitors but quickly reached #2 in global downloads [BidMachine]

How NetShort got its users

NetShort looks paid-ads-led, with TikTok ad seen by users, clip creators on top, and little hard data on spend. Confidence: low

Main channel: Creators and UGC, as the reading above names it
Creators and UGCYouTubeApp Store search and chartsRedditPress and articlesPosts on X
Chartjump's reading of the evidence per channel, not install shares. Install-share estimate per channel with Pro
How it happened
  1. 2024-07 to 2024-10App Store launch: App released on the App Store 2024-07-12; BidMachine says it launched in October 2024 and moved quickly
  2. 2025-07 to 2025-08TikTok ads: Story-hook ads that users saw repeatedly on TikTok
  3. 2025-Q1In-app hit show: A show went viral inside the app, which Equate says triggered the revenue jump
3 more steps:
Creators and UGC Top creator posts about NetShort
10 creators; tags and links first
10 creators, 1 tag or link the app; 209 likes on their best postsAll creators

Overview

Every channel we found, then the numbers behind it.

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How NetShort gets users, channel by channel
Chartjump's reading of the evidence
Creators and UGC
10 creators, 1 tag or link the app; 209 likes on their best posts
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YouTube
20 videos about NetShort, 199K views
App Store search and charts
662K ratings, 4.7 average; in a top 100 in 25 of 25 stores
  • United States 216K ratings, #11 grossing
  • Brazil 83K ratings, #8 grossing
  • Indonesia 56K ratings, #2 free
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Reddit
6 threads name NetShort, 294 comments
The list:
Press and articles
9 articles found
The list:
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Posts on X
9 posts name NetShort, 57 likes
The list:
Podcasts and interviews
1 founder quote
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Bar length: how much evidence we found for the channel, on a log scale (ad-days for ads, likes for creator posts, views for own posts and YouTube, articles, episodes, ratings). It shows where the evidence is, not a measured install share.
Creator posts
Category colors match on every tab
Creator posting patterns
posting patterns of 11 creators; 9 profiles checked so far
9 of 11 creator profiles checked: 4 with "one post", 2 with "posts mostly about the app", 2 with "several posts within a month", 1 with "2-3 posts, 30+ days apart".
Posts mostly about the app 218%
2-3 posts, 30+ days apart 19%
Several posts within a month 218%
One post 436%
0 of 11 creators show a promo code (0%)Creator timeline
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Locales

Where it charts and how it rates, store by store.

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25 of 25
stores where it charts
top 100, category or overall
United States
biggest store by ratings
32.6% of the ratings in tracked stores
662.3K
ratings in tracked stores
25 App Store countries
19 of 25
stores in their main language
from the App Store listing languages
Free
ad languages
with a free account
Ratings by country
top 3 of 25 stores
United States holds 32.6% of the ratings in the 25 tracked stores.
United States US216K
Brazil BR82.6K
Indonesia ID55.6K
Best rank by country
category top 100, 2026-10-05
Best: #2 free in Entertainment, Indonesia.
Indonesia ID#2
Brazil BR#8
United States US#11
GrossingFreePaid
longer bar, higher rank
Store by store
3 of 25 stores, by ratings
CountryBest rankGrossingFreeRatingsAvgListing languageAds in it
United States US #11 grossing, Entertainment #11#15 215,962 32.6% 4.74 English-
Brazil BR #8 grossing, Entertainment #8#20 82,585 12.5% 4.82 Portuguese-
Indonesia ID #2 free, Entertainment #3#2 55,598 8.4% 4.73 Indonesian-
22 more countries
Every tracked store: ranks, ratings and language support.
Daily tracker, 2026-10-05: the rating count and average in each country's App Store, and the best position in Apple's top 100 for the category (overall when only that). A dash: not in that top 100. Listing language: whether the App Store listing is in the country's main language. Ads in it: share of the dissected ads in that language.
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Revenue and charts

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Sources

Where every number comes from, and what is missing.

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Collected by Chartjump
Meta Ad Library, logged out, 1 active creatives
TikTok Commercial Content Library, EU only
Google Ads Transparency Center, netshort.com
TikTok organic: account pages, hashtag and code search
Daily tracker: ratings, App Store top charts per country
App Store listing and review feed, 897 reviews
Apple charts, ratings, public pages: input to the Chartjump estimate
App Store listing
apps.apple.com
Press and founder posts
1
“After integrating the BidMachine SDK”
bidmachine.com, 2026-04-16
9 press links
Every article and interview we read.
Data problems found
6
011 collected ad shows no NetShort content and is left out of every count.
02Creator types: 9 of 11 creator profiles opened; 2 creators stay "not checked yet" until checked.
03Creator post counts differ for 5 of 11 creators (search hits vs profile count). Tables use the profile count.
04Reviews per month: 572 of 897 fall in the last four months. That is the review feed window, not real volume, so it is not used as a signal.
054 accounts found in searches are left out of the creator counts: 3 point at another app or are named like the app without being it, 1 never name, tag or link it.
06No Meta video ads dissected yet.
Store data
secondary
214,986
ratings
4.74
average rating
#71 / #97
US free / grossing, 2026-07-30
25
countries charting
Caveats
11
Meta Ad Library was read logged out by keyword
TikTok Commercial Content Library covers the EU only and showed 0 ads
Instagram profiles collected: none
Account identity: @netshortdramas failed the bio-link check and is not counted as the app's...
Card counts on TikTok posts are the number on the card (mostly likes) and are not views
The shares in the mix are rough estimates labelled as such, not measured
Dates conflict: the store lists release 2024-07-12 while BidMachine says NetShort launched in...
the 130 million downloads comes from a vendor case study with no date
No founder statements, podcast transcripts or YouTube interview transcripts were found
Reviews are skewed to recent months
Chart ranks are a single snapshot from 2026-07-30

Paid: every active ad found for the advertiser in the Meta Ad Library with start date and variant count as Meta publishes them; videos fetched for analysis only and deleted after frames, transcript and OCR were derived; one model read per creative into a fixed schema. Organic: public profile counts only. Creators count only when a caption tags, links or names the app (graded per creator). Founder statements quoted verbatim and checked by code. Estimates labelled and linked. Not affiliated with the app or its publisher.

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1 Meta ad from the advertiser never name NetShort, so none is counted (Meta Ad Library, logged-out keyword searches, 2026-10-03). No ads in TikTok's ad library (EU, 2 searches). No Google ads for netshort.com. Not shown for NetShort, nothing to fill them: Winning ads, Top videos, Teardowns, Ad categories, Creative families, Psychology. Data as of 2026-10-03.

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