Shortbread

Shortbread is a mobile reading app and publisher of serialized romance comics and web series, paired with an AI studio for the artists who produce them. The comics are fully illustrated and marketed as spicy and dark romance, so the content is adult in nature and aimed at mature readers. On the reader side, the app offers series organized by genre, including dark romance, alpha male leads, emotional drama and erotic short stories, with best seller lists and a login. The vendor says it works with established romance authors and artists to create, publish and distribute these stories directly to readers. On the creator side, the vendor describes AI tools built for professional artists making serialized visual stories. The studio is described as controlling characters, actions, emotions and scenes across generations, producing consistent scenes from scripts in batches, and translating scripts. The vendor claims artists can produce visual narratives five times faster at about one third of the cost. The site does not publish subscription prices, coin prices or studio pricing. Readers use the app after logging in, and the studio is reached through a separate Go to Studio link. The AI studio is a business to creator tool, while the app is the consumer product.