Best Short Drama Apps for Fake Relationship
We track 359 fake relationship series across 9 apps. This ranks the apps by how much of that theme they actually carry, not by how loudly they market it, and names what to start with on each.
The apps ranked for fake relationship
101 fake relationship series out of 36,136 on the app, and 782 new titles across all themes in the last thirty days.
ReelShort invented this category and still owns its biggest moments. If you want the series everyone is talking about, they premiere here — just learn the daily free-coin routine before you binge, because the coin math adds up.
70 fake relationship series out of 13,389 on the app, and 1,922 new titles across all themes in the last thirty days.
ShortMax is the fantasy-lover’s pick: when a short drama has dragons, palaces or a cursed prince, odds are it looks best here. Ride the promo bundles and it is also the cheapest way into the genre.
51 fake relationship series out of 14,286 on the app, and 120 new titles across all themes in the last thirty days.
We have not put this one through a full review yet, so there is no verdict here; the catalogue figures above are the verifiable part.
39 fake relationship series out of 14,591 on the app, and 492 new titles across all themes in the last thirty days.
We have not put this one through a full review yet, so there is no verdict here; the catalogue figures above are the verifiable part.
34 fake relationship series out of 5,508 on the app, and 281 new titles across all themes in the last thirty days.
DramaBox is where we point most new watchers first. The library is the deepest in the category, the werewolf and revenge catalogues are genuinely well written, and the weekly unlimited pass is the fairest deal in short drama if you watch more than one series at a time.
31 fake relationship series out of 4,534 on the app, and 208 new titles across all themes in the last thirty days.
GoodShort nails the she-gets-her-revenge arc better than anyone. It earns its spot — with the caveat that its billing prompts are the pushiest in the category, so read before you tap.
What to watch first
Dream OnCharting
Based on the novel by Jennifer Hartmann. When Lexington Hall, the biggest movie star, asks Stevie to be his fake girlfriend, it should have been her Hollywood dream come true. The problem? He's the ex who left her broken-hearted. Is this a dream, or her worst nightmare?
English-languageFake relationshipOn ReelShort · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start
The Forbidden Professor's Secret Surrender
Graduate student Aurora discovers that her strict substitute professor, Felix, is actually her submissive online boyfriend who calls her "Owner." To graduate safely, she hides her identity, navigating the hilarious contrast between his cold professional persona and his clingy online puppy attitude. After graduation, when Aurora goes on a blind date, a jealous Felix crashes it, reveals he knew her identity all along, and begs her to marry him.
English-languageFake relationshipOn ShortMax · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start
CEO Daddy, Win Mommy Back!
Carter heiress Molly is drugged and framed by her stepsister, spending a night with tycoon Kane. Pregnant and disowned, she raises quintuplets alone. Five years later, Kane searches for the woman with a butterfly tattoo, pretending to be disabled. The five kids track down their father—together they expose the villains and reunite the family.
On StardustTV · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start
The Mafia Don's Substitute Lover
Desperate for money to save his mother, Amber becomes a mafia don’s substitute lover. What he doesn’t know is that he’s the don’s long-lost true love—the man he’s been searching for all these years.
On GoodShort · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start
The Heartless Alpha's Beloved Luna
Avery is betrayed and drugged on her full‑moon mating night. Rescued by the fierce, powerful Alpha Gideon, she gets unexpectedly marked. Framed by her stepsister Zara, she is cast as a slave by her former lover Ryan. Forced into a fake marriage with Gideon, she struggles amid lies, deadly plots and a supposed fated mate's return, tangled in dangerous shifter‑world power struggles and confusing feelings.
On DramaBox · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start
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His Brother's Secret Substitute: Married to the Dying Heir
One Night with My Best Friend, I Wed His Rival
I Paid a Beggar to Fake Date Me. He Owns the Whole City![[Dubbed] Your Wife Is Your Rival, Deal With It! poster, on ShortMax](/_vercel/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.reelhunter.xyz%2Fcovers%2F8bf8b29e-39bf-4a3d-8f91-c065d0573d06.webp&w=192&q=70)
[Dubbed] Your Wife Is Your Rival, Deal With It!Showing 36 of 359. The full list is on Best Fake Relationship Short Dramas.
What to know before you install
Every app here is free to download and every series opens with free episodes, so the first decision costs nothing. What costs something is the second one. These apps run on coins: you buy them in bundles, each locked episode spends some, and the bundles are sized so the amount you need never quite matches the amount you can buy. Free coins are genuinely available every day to anyone who opens the app and taps through the bonus; it just takes patience, and the patience is the business model.
Where an app offers an unlimited weekly or monthly pass, it is almost always cheaper than coins if you are watching more than one series at a time. The one habit worth forming: turn off auto-renew the day you buy a pass. You keep the week you paid for, and you do not keep paying for the ten weeks after you lose interest. We do not quote coin prices anywhere on this site because they change often enough that any figure would be stale within weeks, and a stale price is worse than none.
Where fake relationship sits in the wider catalogue
We track 16,088 series in total, and 359 of them carry this theme, roughly 2% of what we list. That share matters when you are choosing an app: a theme spread thinly across ten apps means whichever you install, most of it will be somewhere else.
If you want the whole shelf rather than a slice of it, the Best Fake Relationship Short Dramas hub carries every title we have, sorted newest first, with the same ratings and the same free-episode information on each.
How this list is built
The ranking is a count from the live catalogue: how many series of this theme each app actually carries. It is a measure of depth, not quality. An app can lead on volume and still be the wrong pick, which is why each entry links to our full write-up.
48% of this list carries our R story rating, for violence, threat or dark themes. Most of these ratings are provisional: derived from the synopsis rather than from us watching the series, and deliberately rounded up, because under-rating a dark plot costs a viewer more than over-rating a gentle one costs us. Romance heat is a separate scale and only appears where we have watched something. How our ratings work.
Where we have watched a series you will see our verdict and both ratings; where we have not, you get the platform’s own synopsis and nothing we have not earned. Our method is on how we review. Every app here is free to install and every series starts with free episodes, so trying two costs nothing; the ranked app comparison covers which ones respect your money.