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Shortical - Stream Dramas & TV

iOSv1.0.124, 2026-10-30shortical.comApp Store
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What it is

Short-drama streaming app that gives viewers a few free vertical episodes, then sells coins or weekly and monthly plans to unlock the rest; many series are AI-made, aimed at romance viewers.

Maker
Short Entertainment LTD
Launched
Jul 2025
Category
Entertainment
Price
Free, subscriptions $0.99 to $29.99
US ratings
58K, 4.7 avg
Best rank
#78 grossing, US
  • Maker is Short Entertainment LTD, an Israeli company
  • Earlier VC funding came from Net Capital Ventures and Sticker Ventures
  • TheWrap and GamesBeat report the app is set to do $100 million in revenue by the end of 2026 [TheWrap; GamesBeat, 2026-10-21]

How Shortical got its users

Installs likely come mostly from Meta clip ads and paid Noise creators, funded by $100 million of user-acquisition financing from PvX Partners. Confidence: low

Main channel: Meta ads, as the reading above names it
Meta adsOwn accountsApp Store search and chartsPress and articlesCreators and UGCYouTube
Chartjump's reading of the evidence per channel, not install shares. Install-share estimate per channel with Pro
How it happened
  1. 2025-07App Store launch: App released 2025-07-03
  2. 2025 H2 to 2026 H1Not stated: Rise in US micro drama download rank
  3. 2026Venture funding: Raised VC money from Net Capital Ventures and Sticker Ventures
5 more steps:
Meta ads Top 3 Meta ads
of 59 active, by variants then days
Ad frame: not visible (no text on first frame)#2
Source: Meta Ad Library
Mixed
“not visible (no text on first frame)”
142 days1 variants
Teardown
Ad frame: I know what you did#3
Source: Meta Ad Library
Mixed
“I know what you did”
142 days1 variants
Teardown
Ad frame: Some people actually#4
Source: Meta Ad Library
Mixed
“Some people actually”
141 days1 variants
Teardown
18 ads (59 active creatives), the longest running 142 daysAll 18 ads

Overview

Every channel we found, then the numbers behind it.

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How Shortical gets users, channel by channel
Chartjump's reading of the evidence
Meta ads
18 ads (59 active creatives), the longest running 142 days
Shown at the top of the page.
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Own accounts
@shortical.canada, @shorticaltv: 969K followers
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App Store search and charts
92K ratings, 4.7 average; in a top 100 in 23 of 25 stores
  • United States 58K ratings, #86 grossing
  • United Kingdom 6.8K ratings, #44 grossing
  • Canada 4.6K ratings, #54 grossing
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Press and articles
12 articles found
The list:
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Creators and UGC
67 creators, 5 tag or link the app; 339 likes on their best posts
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YouTube
1 video about Shortical, 521 views
Podcasts and interviews
1 founder quote
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Posts on X
1 post names Shortical, 2 likes
The list:
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.
Paid, Meta adsCreator posts
Category colors match on every tab
Ad category mix
18 Meta videos
Mixed and voiceover b-roll make up 100% of ads. Mixed ads run longest (median 141 days).
78%22%
CategoryAdsMedian days runningDays
Mixed14 ads141 d
Voiceover b-roll4 ads68 d
Not seen: Creator partnership ads on Meta; TikTok ads (EU library); Google Ads; Apple Search Ads; Image or carousel ads on MetaAll categories
Survival
days since first seen, all still active
17 of 18 ads still run after 60 days, 12 after 120.
100%18 of 18
94%17 of 18
67%12 of 18
67%12 of 18
30+ days60+ days90+ days120+ days
Variants per category
20 variants on 18 videos
Mixed ads get the most variants: 1 per ad (16 across 14).
Mixed161/ad
Voiceover b-roll41/ad
Ad launches
Free account
Launch dates and batch sizes
Audience: ads per group
Free account
Who the ads speak to
Creator posting patterns
posting patterns of 67 creators; 30 profiles checked so far
32 of 67 creator profiles checked: 10 with "several posts within a month", 9 with "posts mostly about the app", 8 with "one post", 5 with "4+ posts over 30+ days".
Posts mostly about the app 913%
4+ posts over 30+ days 57%
Several posts within a month 1015%
One post 812%
11 of 67 creators show a promo code (16%)Creator timeline
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Winning ads

Ranked by variants, then days running. Star an ad to save it.

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59
active creatives
Meta Ad Library
62
ad variants
20 on the 18 videos
18
distinct videos
18 with an image
17 of 18
past 60 days
94% still running
142 days
longest running
2 ads
#2142 days
“not visible (no text on first frame)”
1 varJun 14
Mixed
Source: Meta Ad Library
#3142 days
“I know what you did”
1 varJun 14
Mixed
Source: Meta Ad Library
#4141 days
“Some people actually”
1 varJun 15
Mixed
Source: Meta Ad Library
#8141 days
“I'm a spoiled, rich kid”
1 varJun 15
Mixed
Source: Meta Ad Library
#10141 days
“I'm horny as fuck and I want you”
1 varJun 15
Mixed
Source: Meta Ad Library
#13141 days
“I think (subtitle, cut off)”
1 varJun 15
Mixed
Source: Meta Ad Library
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Top videos

What the top ads and own posts say, from their transcripts.

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What they say
top 5 ads by variants, then days running; top 0 own posts by views
Ad frame: EPISODES ARE FREE. I got a proposal...
Source: Meta Ad Library
Meta ad #1Mixed
3 variants68 days running59.9s
“EPISODES ARE FREE. I got a proposal for you. 23:49:55 LIMITED-TIME OFFER PURCHASE TO WATCH”
What they say
“I got a proposal for you. That woman you just laughed at is the most talented, hardworking woman I've ever met.”
The first lines of every top video:
Storyline
Live-action drama clips with a purple EPISODES ARE FREE banner and a countdown timer, then a Shortical end card for the series Against All Odds; no phone UI is shown

Transcripts: Whisper, first 60 seconds of each video, as heard (names can be misspelled). No speech means silent, music only or a slideshow; then the on-screen text is shown. Storylines are read by AI from the frames and the transcript.

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Ad categories

Which kinds of ads ran, how many, and how long they lasted.

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Categories ranked by median days running
Meta, 18 distinct videos
CategoryAdsShareVariantsVar / adMedian daysMax daysRunning 60d+Shows resultFace on cam
Mixed14 78%161141142 93%14%100%
Voiceover b-roll4 22%416868 100%50%100%
New ads per month, by category
first-seen date
JunAugSep
Mixed1211
Voiceover b-roll.4.
Not seen
where we looked
Creator partnership ads on Meta0 found
TikTok ads (EU library)searched, see caveats
Google Adsnone
Apple Search Adsno public library
Image or carousel ads on Meta41 active, not dissected
Primary ad texts
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The ad texts and how many variants use each
Ad facts
4 of 18
show a result on screen
46.8 s
median until the app appears
EU targeting and ad languages:
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Locales

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

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23 of 25
stores where it charts
top 100, category or overall
United States
biggest store by ratings
63.1% of the ratings in tracked stores
91.8K
ratings in tracked stores
25 App Store countries
21 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 63.1% of the ratings in the 25 tracked stores.
United States US57.9K
United Kingdom GB6,762
Canada CA4,606
Best rank by country
category top 100, 2026-11-07
Best: #44 grossing in Entertainment, United Kingdom.
United Kingdom GB#44
Canada CA#54
United States US#86
GrossingFreePaid
longer bar, higher rank
Store by store
3 of 25 stores, by ratings
CountryBest rankGrossingFreeRatingsAvgListing languageAds in it
United States US #86 grossing, Entertainment #86- 57,938 63.1% 4.70 English100%
United Kingdom GB #44 grossing, Entertainment #44- 6,762 7.4% 4.71 English100%
Canada CA #54 grossing, Entertainment #54- 4,606 5% 4.69 English100%
22 more countries
Every tracked store: ranks, ratings and language support.
Daily tracker, 2026-11-07: 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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Repeated scripts and templates across the ads.

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Creators and organic

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Audience

Who the ads speak to, with the evidence behind each group.

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Psychology

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Revenue and charts

Revenue the founder or press stated, then what moved the 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, 59 active creatives
TikTok Commercial Content Library, EU only
Google Ads Transparency Center, shortical.com
TikTok organic: account pages, hashtag and code search
Daily tracker: ratings, App Store top charts per country
App Store listing and review feed, 100 reviews
Apple charts, ratings, public pages: input to the Chartjump estimate
App Store listing
apps.apple.com
Press and founder posts
1
“What stood out to us was the strength of Shortical’s...”
LinkedIn (Gamigion post), 2026-07
12 press links
Every article and interview we read.
Data problems found
6
01First-frame thumbnails exist for 18 of 18 ads.
0218 of 59 active creatives are distinct dissected videos; image and carousel ads are counted but not dissected.
0341 collected ads show no Shortical content and are left out of every count.
04Creator types: 30 of 67 creator profiles opened; 35 creators stay "not checked yet" until checked.
05Creator post counts differ for 24 of 67 creators (search hits vs profile count). Tables use the profile count.
06Reviews per month: 100 of 100 fall in the last four months. That is the review feed window, not real volume, so it is not used as a signal.
Store data
secondary
57,594
ratings
4.70
average rating
- / #78
US free / grossing, 2026-07-30
23
countries charting
Caveats
11
Meta Ad Library read logged out: only active ads and only the two pages found
41 of 59 dissected ads have an anomaly flag
Ad IDs in audience_segments are media hashes from the dissection
corpus.md shows the TikTok library as 0 results
TikTok views for own accounts were readable only for @shorticalapp
Creator card counts are the numbers shown on TikTok search cards, not verified views
Organic dissection is empty: no storylines, no creator brief reconstruction
Reddit returned 0 threads
Instagram data is partial (profile header plus reel counts from a page read
Google Ads Transparency check failed for shortical.com (no data)
Channel shares in mix are the analyst's rough estimate, not a measurement;

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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