Shortsmith is the pen name that signs every page of candy-shorts.run, an independent English guide to Candy Shorts, the vertical-video feed of Candy.ai that EverAI Limited operates from Malta. You will not find a portrait, a career summary or a hometown here. The only thing worth judging on this site is whether the numbers hold up, so this page describes how they are produced.
Candy Shorts is a large catalog of short AI-generated series, sorted into tabs and tags, with a free-episode rule and token prices that both move. My work is to count all of it, write down the day I counted it, and explain what the count means for someone deciding between watching for free and paying.
How I check things
Every figure here starts with a check of the live catalog on candy.ai. A check records, series by series, the episode list, which episodes sit behind a lock, what each paid episode costs in tokens, the scope tab the series belongs to and the tags the platform itself attaches. Nothing is lifted from fan sites, forum threads or rival guides, because a number copied from another guide inherits its mistakes.
Each check is dated, and the latest one ran on October 28, 2026. Guide pages and series pages also show, right under the title, the day their facts were last confirmed. A count that carries no date gives you no way to tell whether it still describes the catalog you will actually find.
The results go into a single stored dataset, and the figures you read are computed from it instead of being typed into the text. When one page says Candy Shorts holds 190 series and 973 episodes, it reads the same record as every other page, so two pages on this site cannot quietly contradict each other. When a fresh check changes the data, every page shifts with it.
The free-episode rule is rechecked on every pass, because it has not stayed put: it changed more than once in October alone. As of the latest check it works like this: Episode 1 plays without any account, episode 2 is free once you open a free account (no card asked), and everything from episode 3 on is paid. What that means series by series is laid out on the page about watching Candy Shorts without paying.
When something cannot be verified, the page says so instead of filling the hole. Seventeen series keep their episodes hidden until you register, so I name them and stop there rather than guess at what they contain. The same honesty applies to questions candy.ai leaves open in public, such as the dollar value of a token or what happens to tokens you never spend.
What I will not do
I will not publish or point to leaked episodes, because nothing exists that could leak. Every Candy Shorts episode is generated by AI from start to finish; no camera was involved, so there is no raw footage waiting to escape. Pages promising leaks can be fishing for card numbers and passwords, and the leak page walks through how those traps work.
I will not invent scores. No heat rating, star count or mark out of ten appears on any series here, since the catalog itself carries no such grading and making one up would dress an opinion as data. What I report is what the platform shows: its tags, its scope tabs, its episode counts and the lock on each episode.
I will not write about the real performers as if they were on a set. Riley Reid, Mia Malkova, Bonnie Blue, Lexi Luna, Asa Akira and Sophie Dee licensed their likeness to Candy.ai as digital twins. They agreed to that use, they did not film a single scene, and no original recording of them sits behind any of these episodes. Anyone searching their names deserves to know that before clicking anything.
And I will not pretend this site carries video. It shows text and cover images, nothing more. Episodes are watched on Candy.ai or on candyshorts.com, the two official homes of the same catalog.
How this site makes money
The site is set up to earn through affiliate links to Candy.ai. If you follow one and later subscribe, a commission may be credited to this site; the price you pay is the one candy.ai shows you, and this site adds nothing to it. Those links are marked as sponsored in the page code, so search engines and careful readers can see them for what they are.
That income does not buy a friendly verdict, and Candy.ai and EverAI do not approve or edit anything published here. The pages carrying the links are the same ones that spell out the weak spots: 161 of the 190 series are five-episode stories, a Premium month includes 100 tokens, which covers only 8 standard paid episodes, and the free episodes are a taste rather than a trial.
Every money page also has a section on reasons not to pay, written to be useful rather than polite. If a straight answer costs a sign-up, I can live with that. A guide that only ever recommends the product is an advert with extra steps. There are no display ads on the site either.
Corrections
Candy.ai can change a price, a lock or an episode count between my checks, and I would much rather hear about it from you than leave a wrong number online. If you spot one, send it through the contact page with the page address, the figure that looks off and what candy.ai showed you, ideally with the date you looked.
I aim to check every reported change against the live catalog before touching anything. Because the numbers come from one stored dataset, a single fix reaches every page that uses that figure. Errors of wording, tone or fairness are worth reporting too.