Best Rebirth and Time Travel Short Dramas
She dies, wakes up ten years earlier, and this time she knows everything. Ten percent of the catalogue runs on the do-over.
We track 2,148 rebirth & time travel series across the apps we cover. Every one below starts with free episodes.
Where these live: most of this list sits on DramaBox, KalosTV and ReelShort. All are free to download.
Where to start
6 from the list in full — cover art, both ratings, what each one is about and where to watch it. Tap any poster further down for the same detail on the rest.
My Farewell to Forever
Given a second chance at life, Charles Grant wakes up as his 27-year-old self. He has a son, a daughter, and a wife who is the world’s richest woman, Lynette Stone—the woman every man dreams of. The first thing he does after returning is deliver their divorce agreement to the woman he truly loves. This time, he chooses to let Lynette go—and, in doing so, finally sets himself free.
On DramaBox · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start
Reborn as the Lycan King’s True Mate
After betrayal kills Selene again, the Moon Goddess gives her one final rebirth and ten days to find...
On KalosTV · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start
Reborn as the Lycan King’s True Mate
After betrayal kills Selene again, the Moon Goddess gives her one final rebirth and ten days to find...
On KalosTV · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start
Reborn After the Ruined Marriage
Clara divorces her cheating husband calmly and uncovers a secret that her mother-in-law stole anothe...
On KalosTV · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start
Reborn to Survive the Apocalypse
Rhea, the protagonist, is betrayed one after another by her neighbor, cousin and ex-boyfriend during...
On KalosTV · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start
My Two Mates Never Loved Me
I’m Evelyn. In my past life, Alpha Caden and Beta Zane only used me as a bet toy for their beloved Sera, then threw me to wild wolves to die. Reborn, I stripped off all their gifts and fled barefoot in snow. The so-called perfect Sera turned out to be Asher, a male warrior in disguise. He sacrificed his lifespan to save me. When I fell for him, Caden and Zane begged hard for my forgiveness. But Asher died young. Can I avenge him and break free from the two cruel Alphas?
On ReelShort · added 2026-09-12 · free episodes to start
The full list
Tap any poster for the synopsis, ratings and where to watch it.
What rebirth & time travel short dramas actually are
She dies. She wakes up ten years earlier with everything she learned intact. Rebirth and time-travel plots are about a tenth of the catalogue and they are the format's purest wish fulfilment: not a second chance at love, a second chance with the answers.
It solves a problem the format has, which is that competence is slow to establish. A reborn lead can be three moves ahead from episode one without any of the setup, because the audience knows why. That makes for unusually brisk storytelling.
The ones worth your time keep a real constraint — knowledge of the future that turns out to be partly wrong, or a cost to changing events. Without one, the lead becomes unbeatable and the tension drains out around the halfway mark.
Where to find them
Of the 2,148 rebirth & time travel series we track, the largest share sits on ShortMax — 509 titles, 24% of the list. After that it is ReelShort (444) and StardustTV (260). The remainder is spread across 9 other apps, which is worth knowing before you commit: no single app has this theme cornered.
For context on the leader, ShortMax carries 18,133 series in total across 18 languages, and added 3,748 new titles in the last thirty days. Whether that shelf keeps growing matters more than its size today — our full write-up goes into what it costs and where it falls short.
How this list rates
65% of these carry our R story rating (17+) — sustained violence, threat or dark themes such as abuse and grief; stronger language. That is a rating for violence, threat and dark themes, not for romance; the two run independently, so a series can be R with barely a kiss in it.
Most of these ratings are provisional: derived from the official synopsis rather than from us watching the series, and marked as such wherever they appear. They deliberately round up, because under-rating a dark plot costs a viewer more than over-rating a gentle one costs us. How our ratings work.
1,312 of these landed since the start of August 2026, so this is not a static shelf. New titles arrive weekly across the apps, and the monthly round-ups track what is new.
How to pick one
Two things decide whether you finish a short drama, and neither is the synopsis. The first is how many episodes you get free — every series here opens with some, but the number varies by app and by how heavily a title is being promoted that week. The second is where the paywall lands relative to the first real turn: a series that hooks you at episode three and charges at episode four is a different proposition from one that gives you ten.
Because the apps are free to install and each gives free episodes, the cheapest way to judge is to start the same theme on two of them. Our ranked app comparison covers which ones respect your money and which have the pushiest billing prompts.
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