Affiliate Disclosure
Best Gambling Apps is free to use and carries no advertising. This page explains how the site pays for itself.
How the site earns
- Links to operators can be commercial links. If you click one and open an account, the operator may pay us a fee.
- The operator sets your offer. The welcome offer and its terms are the ones on the operator’s own promotions page, and nothing on this site can change them, so read them there before you deposit.
- Every operator here holds a provincial bookmaker licence, and we print the number, in our guide or in the operator’s review, so you can check it yourself. An app without that licence stays off the site whatever it offers, and an arrangement with us does not change that.
What it does not buy
- Our editorial team alone sets the order of every table, list and ranking, and no operator can pay for a position.
- Every review names at least one fault, including reviews of brands we have an arrangement with, and no operator can pay to have a criticism removed. The LottoStar review, for example, points out that withdrawals go through only at 07:00 on weekdays, and the Betway review calls its Welcome Pack small.
- There is no score to buy. Our reviews give no score out of ten and no star rating, so what a review says about an app rests on the same five checks every app goes through.
- Every page goes live without an operator seeing it first. Offers, licence numbers and ways to pay are read from the operator’s own pages, and anything we could not confirm there counts neither for nor against an app.
Affiliate disclosure FAQ
Which links can earn us a fee?
Only links that take you to a betting operator’s own site. Links to the provincial gambling boards, the National Gambling Board, the National Responsible Gambling Programme and other pages on this site never earn anything.
Can the operator see that I came from this site?
Only if you arrive through a commercial link, which may record that the visit came from Best Gambling Apps so the operator knows where to send any fee. Nothing personal travels with it, because the site holds no name, email address or other personal detail to pass on, as our privacy policy explains.
How do you rate the apps?
Each app is judged on the same five things, starting with its provincial licence and moving on to its welcome offer, the phones it runs on, how you pay in and take money out, and what it offers beyond sport. The full list is on our how we rate gambling apps page.
Where can I see the apps compared?
Our guide to the best gambling apps in South Africa compares the licensed apps, their welcome offers and their licence numbers in one place.
How can I check an operator’s licence without taking our word for it?
Search the National Gambling Board’s verified operators list on ngb.org.za. The board builds it from the provincial licensing authorities’ own records and asks the public not to gamble anywhere that is not on it. Betway, Hollywoodbets, Supabets and LottoStar all appear on it as bookmakers.
Betting is for adults aged 18 and over. Whatever an operator offers, only bet what you can afford to lose, and if it stops being fun, call the National Responsible Gambling Programme free on 0800 006 008, 24 hours a day, or send a WhatsApp to 076 675 0710. Our responsible gambling page lists free help in South Africa.