Is Candy Shorts free?

The first 2 episodes of every series are free, which across the 26 series we cover comes to 52 episodes you can watch without paying. What that is as a share of each series depends on the series: most run five episodes, and at least one runs ten.

It applies across the board rather than to a rotating selection, so the useful way to think about it is not how many free episodes exist in total, but that you can start any series that interests you and get through its opening before a decision is required.

Everything after the free opening. There is no partial unlock, no ad-supported continuation and no second free window that we are aware of; whatever a series runs past its first 2 episodes sits behind the subscription.

Because every series opens the same way, the free tier will not tell you whether one series is better than another. It tells you whether the format suits you at all, which is a different and probably more useful question.

It starts at $9.99 a month, and what it buys is a series in full rather than its opening episodes. Across the 26 series we cover, the platform's own pages add up to 140 episodes: 52 of those you can already watch, and 88 sit behind the subscription. The counts are read one series at a time, because the catalogue does not use the same number for all of them.

It is worth being precise about the word starting. The figure is the lowest advertised monthly rate, which normally means longer commitments are billed at a lower effective rate and shorter ones at a higher one. We have not confirmed those tiers.

The annual price and its effective cost per month, which is the comparison that actually decides most subscriptions and the one we would most like to publish.

Whether the catalogue is bundled into a general subscription to the wider platform or billed as a separate product, and what else that subscription covers, since the platform runs several things besides these series.

Whether the advertised discount that appears in the platform's own navigation applies to the entry tier, the annual plan, or neither.

None of this is readable from a public page: subscription pages redirect signed-out visitors to the homepage. We would rather publish a partial answer with the gaps marked than a complete-looking one assembled from other guides.

Use the free allowance first. Two episodes of any series is enough to tell whether a one-minute episodic format holds your attention at all, and that is the question the price hinges on rather than the quality of any single series.

Figures checked on the date shown at the foot of this page. Prices and allowances change; if this page is old, treat it as old.