Betting Apps in South Africa: iPhone, Android and the Mobile Site

App or mobile site 📱

The bookmakers on this page also run websites you open in a phone's browser, so an app is a convenience, not a requirement. An app can keep you signed in, sits on the home screen and can send notifications; the mobile site needs nothing installed and is always the current version. The account, the balance and the bet slip are the same whichever you use.

An app gives a bet no better chance than the site does.

Which bookmakers have an app

The cells come from the same fields as each brand's review and change with it. "Yes" under App means the bookmaker offers one in the App Store or on its own site, for iPhone, Android or both; the tables below say which, where we could read it. Data-free shows only where the operator itself uses the word. A dash means we have nothing on record.

Bookmaker	Licensed in	App	Data-free
Betway SA	Western Cape, Mpumalanga	Yes	Betway calls its app 'data-free' ('Download our data-free app') with 'light data use'; 'Data-Free' is an entry in the sport menu
Luckyfish	Mpumalanga +2	Yes	-
SuperSportBet	Western Cape	Yes	-
BetXchange	Western Cape, Eastern Cape	Yes	-
YesPlay	Western Cape	Yes	-
Tic Tac Bets	Northern Cape	Yes	Yes: a 'DATAFREE' entry in the menu and a 'Data Free' quick link open the site on a data-zero domain (tictacbets.data-zero.co.za)
Sportingbet SA	Western Cape	Yes	-
Gbets	Western Cape, Mpumalanga	Yes	-
ZARbet	Western Cape	Yes	-
Hollywoodbets	Western Cape +4	Yes	-
10bet SA	Mpumalanga	Yes	-
Lulabet	Western Cape	Yes	-
Sunbet	Mpumalanga, North West	Yes	-
Playabets	Mpumalanga	Yes	-
Supabets	Mpumalanga	Yes	-
Easybet	Western Cape, Eastern Cape	Yes	-
World Sports Betting	Gauteng +2	Yes	-

Each value is what the operator states on its own site or App Store listing, the same as in its review; "-" means we could not read it. We have not deposited or withdrawn with them. The order follows how we rate.

What each bookmaker's App Store listing says

As listed on the South African App Store on 13 October 2026, read from Apple's own listing data. Only apps whose listing links to the bookmaker's own website are included, in alphabetical order. The publisher is written as Apple shows it. Size is Apple's file size in megabytes (a million bytes), rounded to one decimal; the download your phone shows can differ. Each brand name opens our page on that app.

How to read an App Store listing

Before you tap Get, look at three lines of the listing. The publisher is the company that put the app in the store; compare it with the company named in the bookmaker's licence and its site's footer. The two are not always worded the same, and a group can publish through a sister company, but a name that has nothing to do with the brand is a reason to stop. Our guide to checking a bookmaker's licence shows where to find the licence holder.

For every app in the table, the listing's website or privacy link leads to the bookmaker's own domain. The date of the last update tells you whether the app is still looked after, and the minimum iOS version tells you whether an older iPhone can run it at all. If it cannot, the mobile site is the way in.

Where bookmakers point Android users

What each bookmaker's own site offered for Android when we read it on 13 October 2026, in alphabetical order. A bookmaker whose site showed no Android download that day, or did not open from our network, is not in this table; its review and app page carry what we have.

What an APK is and how to install one with care

An APK is the installation file of an Android app. Several South African bookmakers offer theirs as a download on their own site rather than through a store, and their install pages tell you to allow installs from unknown sources before you open the file. Google's own Android help recommends getting apps from Google Play and warns that "if you download apps from unknown sources, your device and personal information can be at risk", so the source of the file is the whole question.

Type the bookmaker's address yourself, or use the link in its review, and start the download from its app page or footer. Never install a file forwarded in a chat or offered by a site that is not the bookmaker's. A copy from anywhere else could look identical and still capture your login, and the account behind it holds your balance and your verified bank details. Once the app is installed, you can switch the permission for that browser or file manager off again.

Installing on an iPhone

On an iPhone, take the app from the App Store only, and open the listing from the bookmaker's own site where you can. Search results inside the store can show apps with similar names from other publishers, so check the publisher line against the table above before you install.

Where a bookmaker has no app for your phone, its mobile site in Safari does the same job.

Data use on an app or the site

An app has to be downloaded and updated, which costs data, and the size in the App Store table gives an idea of how much. After that, what you spend depends on what you open: live streams and casino games use more than a bet slip. Some bookmakers say their site or app is data-free, and the overview table above shows those in the operators' own words. Read the operator's own terms to see what such an offer covers.

Where the figures come from

The App Store details are Apple's listing data for South Africa on the date in the table and change with each update. The Android table describes what each operator's own site showed that day, read on these pages: betxchange.com (footer), betway.co.za/betway-app, new.supabets.co.za/download-app, supersportbet.com/en-za/l/mobile-app, tictacbets.co.za/page/android_app and yesplay.bet (footer); we did not install the files. The tables follow the alphabet, not our ranking, and having an app does not move a bookmaker up in it. For deposits and payouts, see low minimum deposit betting sites and betting withdrawal times.