What Is FlickReels? A 2024 Short Drama App With 106,000 Ratings and a YouTube Channel Built on One-Minute Episodes
FlickReels is a vertical short drama app on the US App Store since July 2024, sold by Farsun Pte. Ltd. It has 106,119 ratings, and 80% of its 2,701 YouTube uploads are single numbered episodes about a minute long.
FlickReels is a short drama app: serialised stories filmed in vertical format for phones, released in episodes that last a minute or two. It arrived in 2024, it now has more than 100,000 US ratings, and its YouTube channel works differently from most of the others in the category.
The FlickReels figures below come from two public sources we read on 10 October 2026: the US App Store listing, and every public upload we could list on FlickReels’ official YouTube channel.
Who makes it
On the US App Store, FlickReels has been available since 17 July 2024, five days after NetShort. The seller listed is Farsun Pte. Ltd., and the listing’s developer website link points to flickreels.net.
The same seller has only one other app on the US store: Reelala, another short drama app, released on 4 January 2026 and so far rated just five times. That makes FlickReels different from two of its rivals. MoboReels and GoodShort are both sold by companies that also publish novel-reading apps; Farsun’s catalogue is short drama and nothing else.
How it compares with the bigger apps
The App Store does not publish download numbers, but it does show how many people have rated each app. That is a rough sign of reach, not a user count:
| App | US App Store ratings | Average | Age rating | Languages listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DramaBox | 872,446 | 4.8 | 17+ | 16 |
| GoodShort | 529,384 | 4.9 | 12+ | 14 |
| ReelShort | 506,767 | 4.7 | 12+ | 21 |
| NetShort | 220,079 | 4.7 | 12+ | 17 |
| DramaWave | 183,650 | 4.9 | 12+ | 24 |
| ShortMax | 177,892 | 4.6 | 17+ | 19 |
| FlickReels | 106,119 | 4.8 | 12+ | 16 |
| MoboReels | 40,609 | 4.5 | 17+ | 1 |
| FlexTV | 7,440 | 4.5 | 12+ | 15 |
FlickReels sits seventh of the nine. It has about half NetShort’s ratings, although the two launched the same month, and about one-eighth of DramaBox’s. It lists 16 interface languages, in line with the larger apps.
What the listing says about AI
The app’s full name on the store is “FlickReels - AI Story & Drama”. Its description says it brings together popular vertical dramas, original stories and what it calls AI-powered content, and it advertises an AI co-creation feature for building your own story.
That is the app’s own description of itself. We have not used the feature, and the listing does not say how much of the catalogue is made with AI, so we cannot tell you. If that question matters to you, are short dramas AI-generated? covers what viewers themselves report noticing.
What its YouTube channel posts
FlickReels’ official channel is @flickreels_app, named “FlickReels - Enjoy Short Drama”. The App Store listing links to it directly. It opened on 9 September 2024, YouTube shows it with about 2.31 million subscribers, and we could list 2,701 public uploads, from 21 October 2024 to 15 August 2026.
Most of them are a single episode:
| Period | Uploads | Median length | Over 50 minutes | Median views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct to Dec 2024 | 156 | 1 min 00 s | 0 | 84,076 |
| Jan to Jun 2025 | 762 | 1 min 41 s | 0 | 9,502 |
| Jul to Dec 2025 | 1,124 | 1 min 12 s | 0 | 3,344 |
| Jan to Jun 2026 | 640 | 1 min 09 s | 3 | 2,214 |
| Jul to Aug 2026 | 19 | 16 min 12 s | 0 | 8,342 |
2,159 of the 2,701 uploads, 80%, carry an episode number in the title, at a median of 72 seconds each. Overall, 85% of the channel is under three minutes. There are also 376 longer cuts of a single series, at a median of about 21 minutes, which carry a series name rather than an episode number. Only three uploads in the channel’s history run longer than 50 minutes, all labelled as full series and all posted in 2026. The longest runs 2 hours 28 minutes.
That is a different path from MoboReels, whose channel moved steadily from single episodes towards longer and longer uploads through 2025 and 2026. FlickReels stayed with single episodes until its last two months, when 13 of its 19 uploads were longer cuts.
Two more things stand out. The channel’s four most-viewed uploads all come from one series, True Love Waits, posted in early 2025, with between 3.6 and 4.7 million views each. And the channel has posted nothing since 15 August 2026: its output fell from more than 200 uploads a month in mid-2025 to 9 in July and 10 in August 2026. The silence is not because nobody was watching. The last upload has more than 1.1 million views. DramaWave’s channel, by contrast, had its busiest month ever in September.
What this means if you want to watch
- On YouTube, FlickReels mostly gives you single episodes. With a typical upload of about a minute, following one story means working through a dozen or more uploads. The 376 longer cuts and the three full-length uploads are the exceptions.
- Do not expect new uploads right now. As of 10 October 2026 the channel had been silent for eight weeks. We do not know whether that is a pause or a stop.
- Our Clip Finder does not cover this channel. It searches the official channels it was built on, and FlickReels is not one of them.
If you are choosing between apps rather than looking at this one, which short drama app to use compares what the larger apps publish. DramaWave is another app of a similar age that the platform pages on this site do not cover.
What this does and does not show
It shows who sells FlickReels, how it sits against eight other short drama apps on the US App Store, what its listing says about AI, and what its official channel has posted, upload by upload.
It does not show how many series FlickReels has, or what is inside the app. FlickReels publishes no catalogue we can read, so we cannot say how many series it carries or whether its longer uploads cover a whole story. YouTube’s own counter shows 3,120 videos for the channel, more than the 2,701 we could list; we cannot account for the difference. Ratings counts are not user counts, and they mix old and recent ratings. Nothing on this page describes what anything costs.
What we measured
The US App Store listings of FlickReels, Reelala and eight other short drama apps, read through Apple’s public lookup service on 10 October 2026: seller, release date, rating count, average rating, age rating, listed languages and description. Every public upload we could list on FlickReels’ official YouTube channel, 2,701 videos from October 2024 to August 2026, read through the YouTube Data API on 10 October 2026: title, upload date, length and view count. The comparison with DramaWave uses the same count of that channel’s uploads, read the same day.