Short cinematic documentaries
Two minutes.One true story.
TrueReels is a streaming app of short documentary episodes — ninety seconds to two minutes each, grouped into series that run in order. Poisonings, lost aircraft, Cold War tunnels, the fall of Rome. Every factual claim is checked against a source we located and can show you.
Coming to iPhone · No ads · No coins · No upsells
The launch slate
Series that
run in order
Each series is a run of short episodes built to be watched end to end — a season of a documentary, in the time it takes to make coffee.
The research standard
A claim is not a fact
until we can quote
the page that says so
Short-form video is full of confident narration nobody checked. Our pipeline is built the other way round: the evidence comes first, and the script may not say anything the evidence does not support.
Archive first
Every subject runs a deterministic archive lane — national archives, Library of Congress, court and inquiry records, contemporaneous newspapers, peer-reviewed literature, museum catalogues — alongside general research. Half the fetch budget is reserved for primary material so an encyclopedia cluster cannot crowd it out.
Quote, not vibes
Each fact must carry a verbatim quote, and that quote is mechanically located in the text of the page it is attributed to. If the sentence is not on the page, the fact is rejected — no model gets a vote on that.
Independent domains
Facts are tiered by how many independent domains support them and by the class of source. Social posts, forums and content farms are never fetched, never quotable and never count as corroboration.
Sources in the app
The citations behind an episode are in the app, on the episode, where you can tap them. Reenactment imagery is labelled as reenactment — it dramatises documented events and is never presented as footage of them.
Plainly
What TrueReels
will not do
- No adsThe app contains no advertising and no ad SDKs. There is nothing to skip.
- No trackingWe do not use advertising identifiers, we never show the App Tracking Transparency prompt, and we do not follow you across other apps or websites.
- No coinsNo unlock currency, no episode timers, no "watch an ad to continue". One subscription, everything open.
- No data salesWe do not sell or rent your data. Not to brokers, not to anyone. Apple handles payment; we never see your card.
All access
Every story.
One plan.
The first episodes of every series are free. One subscription opens the rest of the catalog and everything we add to it. Cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.
- All series & episodes
- Offline downloads
- Sources & context on every episode
- No ads, no coins, no upsells
Billed through your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Full detail in the Terms and Privacy Policy.