Last updated 17 August 2026
Affiliate disclosure
Some outbound links earn us a commission. It costs you nothing, and it never changes a number or a ranking on this site.
The plain statement
Dramalyst participates in affiliate programmes. When you follow certain links to a short drama app and go on to install it or subscribe, we may receive a commission from that platform.
You never pay more because of it. The price and the free tier are identical whether you arrive through us or type the app's name into a store yourself.
This disclosure is made in line with the US Federal Trade Commission's guidance on endorsements and testimonials (16 CFR Part 255) and equivalent rules elsewhere.
Which links
Any link that sends you to a platform to watch something is marked in the
page's HTML with rel="sponsored nofollow", whether or not it
currently earns anything.
As of the date above, no affiliate programme is live on this site. The links go straight to the official apps and we earn nothing from them. We're publishing this page now because the programmes are being applied for, and because you deserve to know the model before it starts rather than after. When a programme goes live, this section will name it.
Why it doesn't bend the data
This is the part that actually matters, so here is precisely how it works:
- Rankings are computed, not curated. The order on most free episodes comes from the episode numbers in our database. No one can pay to move up it, and there is no manual override in the code that produces it.
- Coverage isn't for sale. We index every drama we can read from a platform's public catalogue. Apps we have no commercial relationship with are indexed exactly the same way as ones we do.
- Bad numbers stay bad. If an app has a stingy free tier, the page says so. A short mint bar is the honest result of a short free run, and commission doesn't lengthen it.
- We say when we don't know. Unverified figures are labelled unverified even where a confident-sounding number would convert better.
What we won't do for money
- Accept payment to change a ranking, a rating or an episode figure.
- Publish a paid review without labelling it as such.
- Hide a platform's restrictions because it pays a commission.
- Promote cracked, modified or pirated apps. Not for commission, not for traffic, not at all.
Advertising
We currently show no display advertising. If we add it, ad units will be visually distinct from editorial content and labelled, and the privacy policy will be updated first.
Questions
If you think something on this site reads like it was written for commission rather than for you, tell us: hello@dramalyst.com. That's a bug report as far as we're concerned.