Best Short Drama Apps for Rebirth & time travel
We track 233 rebirth & time travel 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 rebirth & time travel
ReelShort
78 rebirth & time travel series out of 31,446 on the app, and 1,857 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.
StardustTV
42 rebirth & time travel series out of 12,129 on the app, and 724 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.
GoodShort
36 rebirth & time travel series out of 3,892 on the app, and 279 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.
KalosTV
23 rebirth & time travel series out of 7,635 on the app, and 426 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.
ShortMax
23 rebirth & time travel series out of 17,384 on the app, and 427 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.
DramaBox
15 rebirth & time travel series out of 4,817 on the app, and 290 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
Rebirth of the Contract Wife
Teen 13+ · provisional
Five years ago, Vivian pulled Christian, the Vance Group’s heir, out of a burning wreck with severe ...
On KalosTV · added 2026-08-10
After the Sacred Whale Betrayed Me, I Contracted Poseidon
Mature 15+ for dark themes · provisional
A gifted contract mage, Leyla, spent her past life collecting ninety-nine sacred cores to help her contracted beast, the Sacred Whale Neil, take human form—only to have Neil pierce her heart and push her into the Bloodtide Trench the moment he transformed. Reborn on the day of the contract ceremony, Leyla abandons the Sacred Whale and chooses a dying little spirit snake instead. Neil, now in human form, teams up with her sister Evelyn to humiliate her, but the little snake turns out to be Poseidon, the Sea Emperor. As past betrayals and old wounds resurface, Neil kneels in regret—too late. Only Poseidon stands by her side. This time, Leyla will never waste herself on the unworthy again, and finally learns to live for herself.
On ReelShort · added 2026-08-08
True Luna：On My Terms
Mature 15+ for violence, threat · provisional
Chris, a low-level Omega werewolf, is brutally murdered during her pregnancy by her mate Alex and former friend Janet. Reborn one year prior to their bonding ceremony, she decisively rejects the scumbag in public and severs their bond, triggering her hidden bloodline as the "True Luna" (Mother of all Werewolves). Guided by a mysterious vision, she must find her true love within a month to fully awaken and survive. Taken in by Leon, the powerful Alpha of the Fire Moon Pack, Chris faces continuous framing by the villains. Ultimately, through numerous trials, she and Leon firmly choose each other, leading to her complete awakening.They cast the evil duo into the dungeon and live happily ever after.
On ReelShort · added 2026-08-07
Reborn as the Fake Daughter
Mature 15+ for dark themes · provisional
After waking up as a doomed fake daughter in a novel, Annabelle Harper schemes her way to survival, wins over her four real-daughter sisters, and becomes the "chosen one" with milk tea and fried chicken. But the reborn true daughter returns for revenge. As palace conspiracies erupt, Annabelle discovers her greatest trump card is the gentle yet cunning future emperor.
On HoneyReels · added 2026-08-07
Reborn: A Flight Attendant Counterattack
Mature 15+ for violence · provisional
Evelyn, a senior purser at Atlantic Airways, is reborn with intact memories of her previous life. Drawing on her foreknowledge, she sees through the deadly murder plot hatched by her husband and her trusted best friend. At an altitude of 30,000 feet, she turns the tide against all odds and saves the heir to the Sterling family. After being wrongfully framed and later fully exonerated, she secures the patronage of the Sterling family and is parachuted into the airline’s corporate headquarters. Leveraging her elite risk management expertise, she dismantles the conspiracies of her long-standing career arch-rivals, and ultimately ascends to the absolute pinnacle of power in the aviation industry.
On ReelShort · added 2026-08-06
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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 rebirth & time travel sits in the wider catalogue
We track 2,004 series in total, and 233 of them carry this theme — roughly 12% 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 Rebirth and Time Travel 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.
67% of this list carries our Mature 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.