AI Shorts Hub: Candy AI, Dreamy Shorts and Secrets AI shorts in one place

What we mean by short AI dramas

Open a feed, tap a cover, and a story starts in the first second. That is the whole idea: a series built for a phone held upright, each episode a scene or two long, ending on a line that makes you reach for the next one. The faces, voices and sets are generated, but the plots are very human: a bad marriage, a rival, a queen with a problem, a Reaper with a clerical error.

We keep this hub because three platforms now make these dramas, each with its own rules, and nobody lines them up. Candy AI calls its series Candy Shorts. OurDream runs Dreamy Shorts. Secrets AI runs Secret Shorts. We call the lot AI shorts, and we watch the openers so you can see what is on before you commit.

New to the format? Our explainer what these series are and how they are made takes five minutes, and the how-to-watch guide shows the route from this page to a playing episode.

The three leagues side by side

Think of it as three leagues with different rulebooks. The Candy side is the biggest board and the most varied. The Dreamy side is tidy, British in places and fantasy in others. The Secrets side plays more like short television, with genre labels and a flame rating on every episode.

The table gives the scoreboard. Prices are in US dollars, checked in the weeks before publication, and they can change: every platform shows its price again before you pay.

Where to start tonight: six picks across the leagues

You do not need a method. Take one opener from each side and let the first minute decide. These six cover the range, and every one of them plays free to start.

• A long slow-burn scandal: Connecting Door on the Dreamy side, a cruise, a balcony divider and a door that will not stay shut, twelve episodes in all.
• Fantasy with an attitude: The Witch Who Made Me King on the Candy side, where a knight of low birth has seven days to take a crown and a witch names her price.
• Comedy with a heartbeat: Grim on the Secrets side, a Reaper who turned up early and now needs her client alive until Friday.
• Office tension: Yes, Director on Candy AI, a reprimand in a glass-walled room and a director who decides who stays.
• A mystery at 2:47 a.m.: What the Night Keeps: The Woman Upstairs on Dreamy Shorts, a knock, a bottle of wine and a flat the landlord swears is empty.
• Sci-fi that does not take itself seriously: Probed on Secrets AI, two strangers and a pair of alien scientists who misread everything about people.

Still undecided? Our best-of guide picks the openers, and the genre guide sorts everything by mood.

What costs nothing, and for how long

The opener is free everywhere, no account, no card. That is the first rule of the house. The second leg, episode 2, is free once you sign up for a free account on the Dreamy and Secrets sides, and on Candy AI the next free episode also needs a free account. After that you are in the back half, and the back half has a ticket.

We keep a separate board that lists the free route platform by platform: Free Episodes. Use it to line up several first legs before spending anything. If you only want to sample, you can fill a whole evening with openers and pay nothing.

The ticket, platform by platform

Candy AI sells Premium at 3.99 USD a month billed yearly, 8.99 USD a month for three months, or 9.99 USD for the first month and then 13.99 USD; Premium includes 100 tokens a month, and later episodes are unlocked with tokens. Dreamy Shorts puts episode 3 onward in Premium at 19.99 USD a month or 119.88 USD a year. Secrets AI uses Moments, 500 per episode on our series, with Premium at 19.99 USD a month and Ultimate at 39.99 USD a month.

Everything is laid out on one page, with the arithmetic done for you: the pricing board. For how cancelling works and what shows up on a statement, read the billing and privacy guide. Prices can change, and each platform shows the final figure before you pay.

The Candy side: 24 series and one very long run

Candy AI has the widest shelf. Most series run five episodes, one runs six and one monster runs thirty. Many series star companions you can also chat with on Candy AI, which is the platform's hook.

Office and workplace tension runs through Under the Boss, Under the Chief, Yes, Director and My First Night Shift. Marriages under strain, with a visitor in the house, fill My Neighbor Stopped Closing The Blinds, The Open House, The Anniversary Massage, Room Service, My Wife's Dance Instructor and Couples Therapy With Margot Vey. Crowns and dragons belong to Sworn to the Queen, Dragon Queen's Dark Desire and Claimed by the Dragon Queen.

For the open road and odd corners there are I Picked Up a Hitchhiker, Midnight Compartment, The Nuns Took Me In and A Woman's World - The Last Man On Earth. Rivalries and borrowed partners sit in My Roommate's Girlfriend, I Won My Best Friend's Girlfriend and My Best Friend's Bride. And if you want to settle in for weeks, Yes Ma'am has thirty episodes on a military base. The rest of the shelf, including Every Wife on Candy Lane and Your Wish is my Command, is on the Candy AI hub.

The Dreamy side: 16 series, quick and tidy

Dreamy Shorts episodes run about a minute, and a series is five to twelve of them. The catalog splits between everyday trouble and full fantasy. On the everyday side: Full English at a Yorkshire B&B, Home Fixture on cup final day, Common Ground on a snowed-in farm, Who Keeps Texting My Wife? and Stranded: The Heiress and the Cook.

The other half bends reality. Lotería hands a newly divorced woman a card deck that sends her any man she picks, Mirror Mirror hangs a very unusual antique, Elapsed strands an astronaut thirty years from home, and Find Me in Every World gives a widower another chance in lifetime after lifetime. Add Queen's Guard, Tangles Untamed, 50 Shades of Silicon, Ava and The Witch of the Spring: The King's Wrong Bride, and that is the sixteen.

Category names on the platform include Scandals, Getaways, Experienced, Hired Help, A Hint of Magic, Fantasy, Slow Burn and Secrets & Lies. The whole board lives on the Dreamy Shorts page.

The Secrets side: 14 dramas with a flame rating

Secret Shorts are the most television-like of the three: series of 3 to 8 episodes, roughly one and a half to four minutes each, across Romance, Thriller, Supernatural, Sci-fi, Adventure, Fantasy and Comedy. Every episode carries a flame count from 0 to 5, and the openers on our board are all a 0 or a 1.

Romance and comedy mix in MAID TO PLEASE, My Dirty Accountant, Doctors Orders and Cheat Day. Sci-fi plays for laughs in Probed, Player Two, Terms of Service and Matched. The supernatural side has Down Below, Died Hard and Grim. Fantasy and thrillers arrive with Orc'd and Protective Custody. All fourteen sit on the Secrets side board.

Characters you can also chat with

Several series stars are companions on the platform itself. On the Candy side you can meet Diana Demont, Renata Marrero and Margot Vey in their series, then chat with them on Candy AI. On the Secrets side the same goes for Lindsey, Jess and Victoria. Dreamy Shorts characters are series-only for our purposes: no chat companions here, just the episodes.

Each profile page gives the person's age, city and the series to find them in, and it is the quickest way to pick by personality instead of plot. Start at the characters board and choose the voice you like.

Genres and moods

If you pick by mood, here is the short map. For a long fuse, go to the slow-burn Dreamy picks. For laughs, the Secrets comedies. For crowns and dragons, the fantasy lines on all three sides. For tension in a corridor or a boardroom, the Candy workplace stories.

Our genre guide goes deeper, and the plain-language FAQ answers the questions that do not fit anywhere else.

How we pick what goes on the board

We watch the opener of every series before we write its page. The question is simple: does the first minute give you a situation, a person you want to see again and a closing shot that makes episode 2 feel necessary?

The board covers the whole catalog, from the five-episode sprint to the thirty-episode marathon, so you can compare settings and tones side by side.

Then we write the page in our own words. We never paste a platform synopsis, we say what is free and what costs before we say anything else, and we name the flame rating or the token price where the platform shows one. If something is not confirmed, we leave it out.

A sample evening with AI shorts

Here is how we would spend ninety minutes. Start on the Dreamy side, because the episodes are short and a series is quick to taste: play the opener of Full English, then the second leg after a free sign-up. Switch to the Secrets side for something with a laugh, say My Dirty Accountant, and check the flame count before you press play. Finish on the Candy side with an opener that runs a bit longer, such as Under the Boss at 87 seconds.

By then you will know which league suits you. If one story has hold of you, the pricing board tells you what the rest of it costs. If none of them did, you have spent nothing and learned what you like, which is a good night's work for an AI shorts habit that has not yet begun.

How this hub works

We are an unofficial, fan-run hub. We are not run by Candy.ai, OurDream or Secrets. Each series page has the cover, a short muted preview of about 16 to 19 seconds cut from the free opener, our write-up and a button that sends you to the platform to watch the full episode. We host nothing beyond those previews.

Some of our buttons are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you sign up or pay, at no extra cost to you. It does not change what we write about a series. Everything here is for adults, 18 and over. The longer explanations live in the guides section.

New this week

The live block on this page lists the latest additions to the board, so check it before you pick. We add series as we finish watching openers, and every new page says what is free and what the ticket costs.