Who publishes the app, what it charges in the US, what links it to ByteDance, and how far its audience has fallen since 2024
The US App Store lists Noventure Pte. Ltd. as the seller, and Google Play as the developer. The app's privacy policy says the platform “is provided and controlled by NOVENTURE PTE. LTD.”, with an address on Pheng Geck Avenue, and its user agreement sets Singapore as the seat of arbitration.
| Level | Entity | Source |
|---|---|---|
| App | MiniShorts, released on Google Play on 11 January 2024 and on the App Store on 24 January 2024 | App Store, Google Play |
| Publisher | Noventure Pte. Ltd., Singapore | App Store, Google Play, privacy policy |
| Parent | not named on any primary page | — |
A different app with an almost identical name, MiniShort, is published on Google Play under the name FunShort and counts 50K+ installs. The figures on this page concern MiniShorts by Noventure only.
The link rests on Chinese trade media. A December 2024 analysis on TMTPost, signed by the data firm Diandian, calls it “番茄旗下的MiniShorts”, MiniShorts of Fanqie. In June 2025 an article by 东西文娱, reprinted on letschuhai.com, counts MiniShorts, launched in January 2024, among ByteDance's free short-drama apps abroad.
The app's store listings, website, privacy policy and user agreement name Noventure only. ByteDance's other short-drama app, PineDrama, is published under TikTok Pte. Ltd.; MiniShorts is not. No document read connects Noventure to ByteDance. On 10 November 2026, the attribution is the trade press's, not the company's.
In-app purchases listed on the US App Store, checked on 10 November 2026:
| Offer | Price |
|---|---|
| Weekly Subscription | $19.99 |
| Weekly Subscription A | $23.99 |
| Premium Coin Package | $14.99 |
| Coins | 500 for $4.99 · 900 for $8.99 · 1,000 for $9.99 · 2,000 for $19.99 · 3,000 for $29.99 · 4,100 for $40.99 · 6,000 for $59.99 |
Sources: US App Store listing (10 November 2026). The listing shows ten in-app purchases at most and does not state the period of each offer. Google Play gives a range of $0.99 to $199.99 per item.
The subscription terms on the same listing read “Period: weekly” and then “Price: US$14.99/month”, which matches no subscription in the list. The listed weekly subscription at $19.99 costs the same as DramaWave's weekly membership.
No revenue figure published by Noventure or by a parent company was found. The only recent measure is an estimate by Appfigures on the app's iOS profile: $80K of net revenue worldwide in October 2026, after the stores' commission, from subscriptions, in-app purchases and ads.
Another tracker published larger figures for 2024. They are not repeated here, because their unit could not be read in the source.
| Measure | Value | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Play installs | 1M+ | November 2026 | Google Play |
| Google Play rating | 3.9 (17,988 ratings) | November 2026 | Google Play |
| US App Store rating | 4.6 (7,933 ratings) | November 2026 | App Store |
| Monthly downloads, peak | 780K | June 2024 | Diandian, via TMTPost |
| Monthly downloads | 420K, then fewer than 200K | October, then November 2024 | Diandian, via TMTPost |
| Cumulative downloads, all stores | 4.26M, 7th among Chinese short-drama apps abroad | late 2024 | Diandian, via TMTPost |
| Top countries by downloads | US 25.97%, Indonesia 8.86%, Philippines 6.04% | late 2024 | Diandian, via TMTPost |
| Downloads worldwide | fewer than 5K | October 2026 | Appfigures estimate |
The app peaked five months after launch. Diandian measured 780,000 downloads in June 2024 and fewer than 200,000 in November 2024; Appfigures estimates fewer than 5,000 in October 2026.
Noventure Pte. Ltd., a Singapore company, publishes the app. No parent company is named on its store listings or its legal pages.
Chinese trade media, including an analysis based on Diandian data, attribute it to ByteDance's Fanqie business. The app's own pages name only Noventure, and no document read links the two.
On the US App Store, weekly subscriptions at $19.99 and $23.99, a Premium Coin Package at $14.99, and coins from 500 for $4.99 to 6,000 for $59.99 (prices checked on 10 November 2026).
No figure published by the company was found. Appfigures estimates $80K of net revenue worldwide in October 2026.
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