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ShortMax - Short Dramas & TV

iOSv2.27.0, 2026-09-21shorttv.liveApp Store
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What it is

ShortMax is a vertical short-drama streaming app offering roughly one-minute episodes of romance, revenge and CEO stories, aimed at mobile viewers watching in spare moments.

Maker
SHORTTV LIMITED
Launched
Sep 2023
Category
Entertainment
Price
Free, subscriptions $3.49 to $24.99
US ratings
177K, 4.6 avg
Best rank
#81 grossing, US
  • Operated by Jiaxing Jiuzhou Culture Media; launched in September 2023 [axisaistudios.com]
  • Running $7.2 million monthly revenue with 279% month-on-month growth as of May 2025 [axisaistudios.com]
  • Cumulative downloads of approximately 400 million and peak monthly active users of around 40 million [Baidu Baike]

How ShortMax got its users

ShortMax installs most likely come from many third-party TikTok drama clips that point to a search code, plus TikTok ads; no ad creatives were captured. Confidence: low

Main channel: Creators and UGC, as the reading above names it
Creators and UGCYouTubeApp Store search and chartsPress and articlesRedditPosts on X
Chartjump's reading of the evidence per channel, not install shares. Install-share estimate per channel with Pro
How it happened
  1. 2023-09App Store: Launch of the app by SHORTTV LIMITED
  2. 2024-03Social platforms and app stores: Overseas downloads said to pass TikTok's. ranked first on the overall free app charts in countries such as the United...
  3. 2024-07 to 2024-08TikTok ads: Short drama clips served as ads on TikTok that send viewers to the app
4 more steps:
Creators and UGC Top creator posts about ShortMax
24 creators; tags and links first
24 creators; 472 likes on their best postsAll creators

Overview

Every channel we found, then the numbers behind it.

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How ShortMax gets users, channel by channel
Chartjump's reading of the evidence
Creators and UGC
24 creators; 472 likes on their best posts
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YouTube
20 videos about ShortMax, 6.4M views
App Store search and charts
391K ratings, 4.6 average; in a top 100 in 25 of 25 stores
  • United States 177K ratings, #10 grossing
  • Japan 37K ratings, #47 grossing
  • Brazil 34K ratings, #22 grossing
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Press and articles
12 articles found
The list:
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Reddit
8 threads name ShortMax, 640 comments
The list:
Posts on X
6 posts name ShortMax, 61 likes
The list:
Podcasts and interviews
1 episode names ShortMax
The list:
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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 29 creators; 18 profiles checked so far
18 of 29 creator profiles checked: 9 with "posts mostly about the app", 4 with "one post", 3 with "4+ posts over 30+ days", 2 with "several posts within a month".
Posts mostly about the app 931%
4+ posts over 30+ days 310%
Several posts within a month 27%
One post 414%
0 of 29 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
45.3% of the ratings in tracked stores
391.2K
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 45.3% of the ratings in the 25 tracked stores.
United States US177.1K
Japan JP37.3K
Brazil BR33.7K
Best rank by country
category top 100, 2026-10-05
Best: #10 grossing in Entertainment, United States.
United States US#10
Brazil BR#22
Japan JP#47
GrossingFreePaid
longer bar, higher rank
Store by store
3 of 25 stores, by ratings
CountryBest rankGrossingFreeRatingsAvgListing languageAds in it
United States US #10 grossing, Entertainment #10#50 177,123 45.3% 4.61 English-
Japan JP #47 grossing, Entertainment #47- 37,255 9.5% 4.59 Japanese-
Brazil BR #22 grossing, Entertainment #22#57 33,718 8.6% 4.77 Portuguese-
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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Sources

Where every number comes from, and what is missing.

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Collected by Chartjump
Meta Ad Library, logged out
TikTok Commercial Content Library, EU only
Google Ads Transparency Center, shorttv.live
TikTok organic: account pages, hashtag and code search
Daily tracker: ratings, App Store top charts per country
App Store listing and review feed, 996 reviews
Apple charts, ratings, public pages: input to the Chartjump estimate
App Store listing
apps.apple.com
Podcasts
Free account
3 episodes with the founder or team
Press and founder posts
0
12 press links
Every article and interview we read.
Data problems found
5
01Creator types: 18 of 29 creator profiles opened; 11 creators stay "not checked yet" until checked.
02Creator post counts differ for 14 of 29 creators (search hits vs profile count). Tables use the profile count.
03Reviews per month: 537 of 996 fall in the last four months. That is the review feed window, not real volume, so it is not used as a signal.
046 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, 3 never name, tag or link it.
05No Meta video ads dissected yet.
Store data
secondary
176,852
ratings
4.61
average rating
#38 / #81
US free / grossing, 2026-07-30
25
countries charting
Caveats
10
dissection.json does not exist and the Meta Ad Library search returned 0 ShortMax creatives
The shares in mix.estimated_shares are a guess from indirect evidence and are labelled low...
No founder, executive or team statements about ShortMax were found
Instagram was not collected (profiles list is empty)
The count on each TikTok card is views or likes depending on the record
Only 15 organic posts were dissected, 13 of them flagged by the dissector for no app on screen
Press numbers disagree or are weakly sourced: 10 million daily users
Chart data is a single snapshot from 2026-07-30 and lists both US grossing 81 and US grossing...
App Store reviews are US RSS only (996), skewed by the 2026-09 spike
EU reach was not read: the TikTok EU library returned 0 and no ad language data exists

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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No ads in Meta's Ad Library (logged-out keyword searches, checked 2026-10-03). No ads in TikTok's ad library (EU, 2 searches). No Google ads for shorttv.live. Not shown for ShortMax, nothing to fill them: Winning ads, Top videos, Teardowns, Ad categories, Creative families, Psychology. Data as of 2026-10-03.

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