The micro-drama gold rush is on. Same 9:16 player, same coin economy, same subscription mechanics that DramaBox and ReelShort use to do $5M–$15M months. Prebuilt Apps hands over the platform, the source code, and the launched App Store listing — under your own brand.
Fixed at $14,999. Delivered in 4–7 days, with 3 months of free support. Android, iOS, web and admin panel — source code yours on day one.
Our live micro-drama demo is built on the exact codebase you would get. Open the web app and click through the whole product — the library, a series, the coin paywall — the same responsive build your users get without a download.
Our DramaBox clone is already live in production — not a mockup or a prototype.
Reelxia, built on this exact codebase, is live on the web and Google Play and has already been watched and tested by thousands of real users: reelxia.app · Reelxia on Google Play
Browse the library, open a series, hit the coin paywall — the same responsive build your users get without a download. This is our live app, Reelxia.
Visit reelxia.app
Configured to pass App Store and Play Store review, with in-app purchases, content ratings and age gating handled. Reelxia is already live on Google Play, downloaded and tested by thousands of users.
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From 8 white-label deployments
$14,999
4–7 days delivery, fully branded
100% Source Code
No revenue share. No lock-in.
Android · iOS · Web
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Here is the truth: DramaBox, ReelShort, GoodShort and FlexTV figured out something most streaming platforms still have not. People will pay $0.99 to unlock the next 60-second episode when the cliffhanger is sharp enough. They will sit through a 30-second rewarded ad to do the same. They will open the app 14 times a day. The whole format is built on tight loops, tight monetization, and a ruthless content calendar.
Our DramaBox white label app is the platform that powers that loop — ready for you to brand, fill with your own content, and ship under your own name. Vertical 9:16 player, coin packs from $1.99 to $99.99, weekly and monthly subscriptions, rewarded video ad SDKs, push notifications tuned to drag users back in, and an admin dashboard that lets a non-technical operator run the whole operation.
You are not buying a generic Netflix clone with a coin button bolted on. You are buying a vertical drama app, built for vertical drama, by a team that has shipped eight similar platforms. Want to see it? Book a 30-minute walkthrough and we will show you a live demo.
Every screen below is from the working build — the vertical player, the episode selector, the coin wallet and the subscription flow. Swipe to explore.
These are not hypotheticals. They are patterns we have watched play out across eight client deployments since 2023. If one of these surprises you three weeks into your own build, that is a problem worth fixing before launch.
Set the unlock cost too high and ARPU drops 30–40% inside a week. Too low and free users never convert. Our default ladder is calibrated against eight previous deployments — and you can tune every price point from the admin panel without redeploying.
Two free episodes and retention craters before users get hooked. Five free and conversion-to-paid drops by half. Three is the number every operator we have worked with eventually lands on. We pre-set it; you A/B test from there.
Apple flags content rating questionnaires aggressively for romance and adult-adjacent themes. We pre-fill these correctly the first time, route IAP through proper StoreKit, and submit with a tested screenshot bundle. Most clients hit "Approved" on first review.
6 PM local time outperforms 8 AM by roughly 2x on episode-unlock conversion. It does not matter what the message says — users just do not buy coins at 8 AM. Our scheduling defaults reflect this; you can override per segment.
Every operator who optimizes their last-60-seconds hook is optimizing the wrong end. Episode-2 unlock rate correlates with the hook in the first minute of the previous episode — not the cliffhanger at the end. Brief your producers on this and save six months of bad data.
Numbers, not hype. Here is what the last 18 months have actually looked like in the micro-drama category.
Your white label DramaBox clone is not a single app. It is four production-grade pieces wired together — the user app, the admin dashboard, the creator portal, and the backend. Each one is built for a different person on your team, and each ships on day one of go-live.
Vertical 9:16 player with TikTok-style scroll, autoplay between episodes, instant coin checkout, push notifications, and offline downloads. Submitted to the App Store and Play Store under your developer account.
Upload episodes, set unlock prices, manage genre tags, schedule releases, push notifications, run promo codes, and watch revenue in real time. Built so a non-technical operator can run the entire platform.
Producers and studios upload masters, get them auto-encoded into HLS, see view counts, completion rates, and revenue-share splits — without ever calling your tech team. Automated payouts keep everyone happy.
Auto-scaling backend, monitoring, payment routing, ad-SDK orchestration, and an FFmpeg-based HLS encoding pipeline. Hosted under your accounts. We deploy it, configure it, then hand you the keys.
Six profiles we work with regularly. If you fit any one of these, the platform was built with you in mind.
You have the content, the scripts, the studio. You do not have a 30-engineer team. We hand you the platform — your library goes live in 4–7 days under your brand.
Your existing OTT is bleeding viewers to vertical. Spin up a sister micro-drama app, share users, share billing, share data. Same backend, new format.
You have built the following on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram. Now you want to own the relationship and the revenue. Your app, your billing, your data, your terms.
TV networks adding a digital-first vertical drama wing. We have shipped white-label apps for regional broadcasters in three different geographies.
Cosmetics, fashion, dating apps, food delivery. A sponsored 50-episode series with your product placement is the next-gen branded content play.
You spotted the wave early. You do not want to spend nine months on a tech build. We hand you a ready platform — you focus on content, marketing, growth.
Prebuilt Apps has the entire white label DramaBox clone ready to brand and ship. Coin economy, subscriptions, rewarded ads, push, and a creator portal — all wired in. Bring your content, we hand over the keys.
Twelve platform-level features that ship out of the box, including the privacy and security controls app stores and payment providers ask about. Every one has been load-tested under real users on previous deployments — not just on a localhost demo.
Vertical drama does not look like Netflix and it does not monetize like Netflix. The platform underneath has to be built for the format. Six things that are actually different.
Most clone vendors hand you a half-built app and a 50-page invoice. We hand you ten things, all working, all yours.
Native-quality React Native build with TikTok-style vertical scroll, instant playback, gesture controls, and offline downloads. Submitted to the App Store & Play Store under your developer account.
Progressive web app for users who do not want a download. Same login, same coins, same library — works on any phone, tablet, or desktop. SEO-friendly so your episodes rank on Google.
Upload episodes, set unlock prices, schedule releases, manage genres, run promo codes, push notifications, and watch revenue in real time. Built for non-technical operators.
Producers and content houses upload masters, get auto-encoded into HLS, see view counts, completion rates, and revenue share — without ever calling your tech team.
Stripe, PayPal, Apple IAP, Google Play Billing, Razorpay, PayU, and crypto on-ramp. Pre-wired coin packs ($1.99, $4.99, $9.99, $19.99, $49.99, $99.99) and monthly/yearly subscriptions.
AdMob, Unity Ads, IronSource, and Meta Audience Network preconfigured for rewarded video. Users watch a 30-second ad, unlock the next episode — the highest-converting monetization mechanic in micro-drama.
Full source. Yours. No revenue share. No SaaS lock-in. Hosted on your AWS, your domain, your Stripe account. We even hand over the GitHub repo on day one of delivery.
Logo refresh, app icon, splash screen, store screenshots, color palette, and a 30-page Figma file you (or any future designer) can pick up and run with.
We deploy to your AWS or DigitalOcean, configure CloudFront, set up monitoring (Sentry, Datadog), and train your team in two recorded sessions. You will know how every screw turns.
Anything we built that breaks, we fix. Free. For 3 months post-launch. After that you are on a paid retainer or flying solo — your call.
DramaBox is not the only flavor of vertical drama. Same engineering team, same 4–7 day window, same source-code-yours terms — here are the adjacent platforms we ship.
Built for the US, UK, and Canada playbook. Hollywood-style production aesthetics, hybrid coin-plus-rewarded-ads monetization, and a recommendation engine tuned for English-speaking long-tail tropes.
Localization-heavy build for operators going global on day one. Multi-language dubbing pipeline, subtitle workflows for 15+ locales, regional pricing per country, and a CMS that slots one series into different markets without re-encoding masters.
Lightweight build for markets where the average user is on 4G and a budget Android. Aggressive video compression, adaptive bitrate down to 240p, a sub-30MB app footprint, and a coin economy priced for INR, IDR, and PHP markets.
Mixed-format platform where some episodes are full vertical video and others are audio-only with static art. Useful for infotainment crossover, regional storytelling apps, and operators amortizing content across two formats from one CMS.
Regional build for Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines. Local payment gateways (GCash, OVO, MoMo, Truemoney), social login via Zalo and Line, and a content taxonomy tuned for SE-Asian genres.
Optimized for operators whose growth strategy is creator partnerships, not licensed catalogs. Heavy-duty creator portal, automated revenue-split payouts, leaderboard gamification, and a dual-sided referral system.
Most of the addressable audience has not even downloaded one of these apps yet. The Prebuilt Apps white label DramaBox app is the fastest way to claim a slice — branded, monetized, and App Store-ready in 4–7 days.
The coin economy alone powers the bulk of revenue at DramaBox and ReelShort. Switch on the streams that fit your market, and stack them for maximum ARPU.
Users buy coin bundles ($1.99 to $99.99) and spend them to unlock episodes. The highest-revenue mechanic in vertical drama — ReelShort reportedly does $7M+/day on this model alone. We pre-wire the price ladder, the discount bumps ("+30% bonus on $19.99"), and the urgency timers.
VIP weekly, monthly, yearly. Unlock unlimited episodes, ad-free, early access to new releases, exclusive series. Conversion typically lands 8–14% of paying users — recurring revenue you can forecast.
Users who do not want to pay watch a 30-second ad to unlock the next episode. AdMob, Unity, IronSource preconfigured. eCPM sits around $25–$40 in Tier-1 markets — your free users still print money.
Sell skinned splash screens, branded series, and in-show product placement to advertisers. The same brands buying TikTok ads will pay you 4x to put their product inside an episode.
Bring producers onto your platform with a clean 70/30 or 60/40 split. They make the content, you take a cut, your library grows without you fronting production costs. We build the dashboard that pays them automatically.
Once you have a fan base, sell premieres, behind-the-scenes packs, autographed merch, and fan-meet tickets. Most operators ignore this. The ones who do not add 18–25% to top-line.
A custom DramaBox-style build is a 6–9 month, $80K+ bet on untested code. An off-the-shelf shell is cheap and broken. Here is the head-to-head.
The same stack the actual DramaBox runs on. No cut corners, no toy framework — every layer has already carried real users on previous deployments.
Our build process is fixed-scope and fast. You get a fixed price and a fixed delivery date on the discovery call, and you approve every milestone before we move forward.
Day 1
A 30-minute call and a written scope doc. We agree your market, your content plan and your monetization mix — you leave with a fixed price and a fixed delivery date, not a vague estimate.
Day 2–3
Your logo, app icon, splash screen, colour system and typography go onto the base platform. You sign off on the look before we configure anything else.
Day 4–14
4–7 days. Your genre tags, coin price ladder, subscription tiers, payment gateway and ad SDKs configured on the production codebase. The whole platform, branded and working.
+~1 week
Anything beyond branding and configuration — new screens, a different monetization flow, extra integrations — adds roughly one more week. You get that number before we start.
Handover
Deployed on your AWS or DigitalOcean account, CDN configured, monitoring wired up. Full source code in your repository, plus a walkthrough for your team on the admin dashboard.
90 days free
Anything that breaks, we fix. Free. New features get quoted, but bugs are on us. Three months in, your platform has been hammered by real users and you know exactly what comes next.
Get a live demo of the user app, admin dashboard and creator portal. See the coin unlock, the subscription flow, and the analytics end-to-end. Walk away with a fixed-price quote of $14,999 — delivered in 24 hours.
From signed contract to live in 4–7 days. Customization on top adds about a week. A from-scratch build of the same scope runs six to nine months — we have compressed it by reusing a codebase already in production.
A custom DramaBox-style app from scratch costs $80K–$140K, and that is before content. Our white-label package is a fixed $14,999 and ships with the entire platform — user app, web app, admin, payments, the works.
React Native (or Flutter, your call), Node + PostgreSQL, AWS S3 + CloudFront, FFmpeg HLS pipeline, Redis cache, Firebase push. The same stack the actual DramaBox runs on.
You own the code, the data, and the App Store listing. We do not take a revenue share, do not lock you to our hosting, and do not hold your keys. Pay once, ship forever.
Eight white-label streaming and content platforms shipped to date. Every line of the player, every coin transaction, every push notification has been stress-tested under real users — not just on a localhost demo.
The micro-drama model is no longer experimental. ReelShort, DramaBox, GoodShort, and FlexTV are pulling $5M–$15M months. We hand you the same revenue mechanics, the same UX patterns, the same coin economy — the parts that took them three years to figure out.
We are a dev shop that runs SEO and paid for entertainment apps. Your DramaBox clone is built so it indexes on Google, ranks for episode titles, and converts paid traffic. Most clones are not.
Building this from scratch with a US dev team runs $80K–$140K. Our white label DramaBox app is a fixed $14,999 with the full platform. The savings cover your first year of paid acquisition.
A full delivery pod, not a single freelancer. Same faces from kickoff to launch — no handoffs, no telephone game.
Your single point of contact
Owns scope, milestones, and the weekly status report. The one human you message when anything is unclear.
Figma, prototypes, store screenshots
Turns your brand into the player, the checkout, the admin shell. Three rounds of revisions baked in, plus a 30-page Figma handover.
iOS · Android · PWA
React Native specialists who have shipped two million app installs. They know what the App Store reviewer flags before you hit submit.
APIs, payments, coin economy
Node + Postgres people who have wired Stripe, Apple IAP, Google Play Billing, AdMob, and Unity Ads on previous builds.
Recommendations & moderation
Tunes the recommendation engine to surface the right cliffhanger to the right user, and builds the auto-moderation pipeline.
AWS, CDN, monitoring
Deploys to your AWS account, configures CloudFront, sets up Sentry and Datadog, and hands over a runbook for 3 a.m. issues.
Five-stage test pass
Functional, regression, payment, App Store guideline check, and a load test under 1,000 concurrent streams. We do not ship until it is green.
ASO, paid ads, launch campaigns
Optional add-on for clients who want us running their first 90 days of acquisition — the same playbook that scaled prior launches.
The complete white label DramaBox clone — Android, iOS, web, and admin panel, the coin economy, subscriptions, ad SDKs, and deployment included. Full source code, no revenue share, and three months of support on us.
Android · iOS · Web · Admin Panel
$14,999
one-time · 4–7 days
Fixed price · No hidden fees · Source code yours on day one
Own every line of code, including the encoder and player. Modify, extend, or hire another team. No vendor lock-in, no runtime fees.
Free bug-fixing, OS upgrades, and store-compliance fixes for 90 days post-launch. Optional monthly retainer from $1,500 afterwards.
We deploy to your AWS or DigitalOcean, configure the CDN and payment APIs, and set up your admin panel on your own domain.
Need custom features?
Tell us on the demo call. Custom work adds roughly one week and is quoted separately, before we start.
Most clients take the fixed-price clone package. If your scope is bigger or genuinely uncertain, two other models keep you covered.
Locked at signing — $14,999
You give us a scope doc (or we write one on the discovery call). We give you a fixed price and a fixed timeline. No scope creep, no hourly invoices, no surprises at month three.
Monthly retainer — from $6,000/month
We assign a frontend developer, backend developer, UI/UX designer and DevOps of your choice. They work as your team — same Slack, same standups, same backlog. Scope evolves, the team stays the same.
Hourly rates from $9 – $15 / hour
Pay for the hours we work, billed every two weeks. Useful for post-launch tweaks, A/B test rollouts, integrating a new ad network, or anything without a fixed-price ceiling.
We have developed many DramaBox clones and helped businesses reach millions. On the call we will walk you through a live demo, show you real results, and hand you a fixed $14,999 quote — delivered in 4–7 days, source code yours on day one.
See the app live. Fixed quote in 24 hours.
A custom build runs $80K–$140K and six to nine months. The Prebuilt Apps white label DramaBox clone is the same product — rebranded, deployed, and live in 4–7 days for a fixed $14,999. Source code yours on day one.
Everything entrepreneurs, content houses, and operators ask before buying a white label micro-drama app. Do not see your question? Ask us on the demo call.