“Unable To Cancel & I Keep Getting Charged — Unable To Cancel & I Keep Getting Charged the $19.99 I like the short dramas & considered paying for a whole year but if I can’t watch even though I am still being charged. I may have to report…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 179 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★26,516 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
162 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Stuck in a waiting room? Bored on your commute? Craving a story you can finish before your coffee gets cold? Shorts turns any spare minute into pure entertainment, with exclusive short dramas and movies made for watching on the go.
Dive into a growing library of bite-sized stories and films, many inspired by best-selling novels, all in stunning high definition. With new episodes added constantly, no two visits to Shorts ever look the same.
WHY SHORTS
Most streaming apps ask for hours you don't have. Shorts is built differently: every story is told in fast, addictive episodes designed to fit into the small gaps of your day, whether that's a lunch break, a train ride, or the ten minutes before bed. No long setup, no filler, just the good parts, episode after episode.
MOVIES FOR EVERY TASTE…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 5.13.1 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.13.1, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 1.99 to USD 39.99 — a 20x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (3.9% of 179 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Horrible — There is no way to cancel and I don’t even know what is enrolled because there’s nothing that comes up under VIP but yes, it says the Apple Pay is linked. You call the number and it’s a message in French”
“Impossible to Cancel Subscription — Once you subscribe, it is almost impossible to cancel the subscription. The company is based in France. The help center is no help when you try to tell them you want to cancel the subscription. I…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.13.1.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown9
Lowest$1.99
Highest$39.99
Shorts VIP Weekly$19.99
Shorts VIP Weekly$14.99
Monthly VIP$39.99
Shorts VIP$14.99
Shorts VIP$7.99
Show 4 more purchases
Pack of Coins$9.99
Pack of Coins$4.99
Pack of Coins$19.99
Pack of Coins$1.99