Best Short Drama Apps for Rebirth and Time Travel
We track 1,837 rebirth & time travel series across 10 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

486 rebirth & time travel 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.

294 rebirth & time travel 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.

260 rebirth & time travel series out of 8,605 on the app, and 939 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.

255 rebirth & time travel 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.

226 rebirth & time travel 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.

161 rebirth & time travel 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.
What to watch first

Beastkin Reborn: Bloodline Awakens
Reborn after being treacherously murdered by her jealous elder sister Lila, cat beastkin Mia Whitepaw reverses their tragic fates once and for all. Lila snatches the Multiple Births fertility gift, while Mia claims the legendary Bloodline Awakening, marries Oliver Brownfield—heir to the Rabbit Clan long written off as weak and worthless—exposes the Lion Clan heir’s tainted bloodline, awakens the ancient divine Sky-Rend bloodline, and rises to hold supreme power over all beastkin clans.
On ShortMax · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start

The Phoenix Was My Past, The Serpent Is My Fate
Reborn after betrayal, Elara abandons the arrogant S-Rank Phoenix and bonds with a dying black serpent instead. Mocked by everyone, she soon discovers the serpent can transform into Kael—a dangerously powerful man who claims her as his mate. But when her past resurfaces, Elara must uncover the secret of his bloodline before the academy descends into chaos.
On ShortMax · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start

After Rebirth I Divorced Him and Destroyed His Perfume Empire
Reborn to the day her husband Julian forced divorce papers in front of her, Eileen doesn’t beg him to stay this time. She signs without hesitation. When Julian and his childhood sweetheart take the stage on a nationally televised competition, ready to bury her again, Eileen walks onstage with the evidence—and the perfume that was always hers. This time, she’s taking back her name, her formulas, and the entire fragrance empire.
On ShortMax · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start

I Married This Dragon King Instead of My Sister
In her past life, human princess Seraphina loved dragonslayer Cassian with obsessive fervor, forcing him to marry her—though his heart belonged to her younger sister. War erupted, the kingdom fell, and Cassian died pleading only to "never see her again." She perished in flames, vowing: *If given another chance, I will never cling to him again.Reborn on her wedding day, she makes a new choice—yielding Cassian to her sister and offering herself in marriage to the brutal......
On DramaBox · added 2026-10-14 · free episodes to start

Swapped to Be the Don's Queen
In her past life, spitfire Veronica married a golden boy while her sweet sister got the ruthless Gunrunner Don. Both ended in tragedy. Reborn with a vengeance, Veronica swaps fiancés to enter the lethal underworld.Armed with razor-sharp wit and dangerous charm, she crushes her enemies, builds an empire, and tames the mafia king.
On GoodShort · added 2026-10-14 · 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 rebirth & time travel sits in the wider catalogue
We track 16,088 series in total, and 1,837 of them carry this theme, roughly 11% 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.
63% 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.