Best Short Drama Apps for Fake Relationship
We track 379 fake relationship series across 11 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

88 fake relationship series out of 32,369 on the app, and 3,316 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.

83 fake relationship series out of 18,133 on the app, and 3,748 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.

50 fake relationship series out of 13,196 on the app, and 2,058 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 13,306 on the app, and 536 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.

33 fake relationship series out of 4,632 on the app, and 431 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.

30 fake relationship series out of 5,058 on the app, and 229 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.
What to watch first

The Imperfect MarriageCharting
Based on the novel by L. Steele. After her fiancé cheats on her, Vivian flash marries a hot silver fox… only to realize he’s her ex’s dad. The deal is simple: two weeks of marriage, a CEO title for Quentin and enough money for Vivian to save her sick dad. But as her ex keeps humiliating her and his dad keeps saving her, Vivian's fake marriages starts to cross very real lines.
On ReelShort · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start

Seduced by My Brother's Boyfriend
After discovering her boyfriend's infidelity, Chloe agrees to pretend to be a couple with Jess, the hockey captain she mistakenly believes is her younger brother's boyfriend. She has no idea she's fallen into a trap set by her scheming childhood sweetheart, who is gradually consolidating his control and hunting for love.
English-languageFake relationshipOn DramaBox · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start

The Alpha’s Substitute Bride
The small town of Moonridge in the Pacific Northwest is secretly ruled by a werewolf clan. Ava, the eldest daughter of the declining Reed werewolf family, is branded a “useless outcast” for her inability to shift into a wolf. She is forced to toil endlessly for her kin. Desperate to secure alliance gold to pay off family debts, her mother compels her to take her younger sister’s place — the sister refuses the match — and marry Damon, the ruthless new Alpha of the Blackwood Pack. Ava steps into Blackwood Lodge in despair, yet unexpectedly wins the affection of Damon’s mother, Martha. The cold‑hearted Damon is also gradually moved by her resilience as they spend time together. Hidden deep within Ava flows the Moon‑Blessed Luna Blood, a power that begins to revive the fading wolf pack. Her parasitic birth family comes crawling back once more, and her jealous younger sister attempts to seduce Damon. This time, Ava refuses to back down. With the support of Martha and Damon, she severs all ties with the Reed family. What was once feared as a den of wolves ultimately becomes her true home.
On ReelShort · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start

I Can See Your Lies
Leah, pretending to be blind after recovering her sight, discovers her fiancé Dorian is conspiring with her stepsister to steal her assets and frame her for murder. Guided by the memories of the victim Chloe, she navigates a villa riddled with cameras, gathering evidence while enduring torment. At the engagement party, Leah publicly exposes all conspiracies, bringing the culprits to justice and reclaiming her life.
On ReelShort · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start

My Boss Is My Secret Husband
Jewelry designer Elena enters a fake marriage with CEO Cedric to save her grandfather. Two years later, she joins his company as his assistant—they don't recognize each other. Workplace clashes and jealous schemes unfold. As plots unravel, they discover their legal spouse is their destined true love.
On StardustTV · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start
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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 16,670 series in total, and 379 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.
47% 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.

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