Most of you play on a phone, and almost none of that happens in an app. That sounds like a gap and mostly isn't — the full lobby, cashier and sportsbook all load in a tab. What changes is everything around the games: sessions drop sooner, live video costs data and battery, and a device in your pocket removes friction a laptop has by default.
Why don't we have an app?
We hold a licence from the Government of the Autonomous Island of Anjouan, Union of Comoros, No. ALSI-202411070-FI2. Apple and Google both require a real-money gambling app to be geo-restricted to markets where the developer holds a licence recognised there, under a verified developer account tied to it. Ours doesn't clear that bar in Canada.
So we don't ship one, and neither does anyone else in our licence category. We'd rather say that plainly than let you hunt for a download that was never going to exist.
If it asks you to install something, it isn't us
We're a website. If an APK site, an app aggregator or a link in an email offers an "Oxibet app", nobody has reviewed what it does, and an installed Android package reaches far deeper into your phone than a web page can. The only thing worth adding to your device is a shortcut your own browser makes, which installs nothing. Our sign-in page applies the same logic to lookalike login portals.
What does browser play actually give you?
Mobile browsers run HTML5 games natively, which closed the app gap years ago. Load us on a phone and you get the same lobby, balance, cashier and sportsbook. Studios build mobile-first now — portrait layouts, bigger tap targets, identical maths.
One account, nothing to sync
Your balance never lived on the device, so moving between phone, tablet and desktop changes nothing.
The whole library
Our casino lobby loads all 3,000-plus titles on a phone. A few older games sit better in landscape; nothing is held back.
Live tables and sport too
Evolution and Pragmatic Play Live stream to mobile, and our sportsbook carries pre-match, live and cash out.
Two quiet advantages come with that. Nothing takes up storage or asks for permissions, and there's no update cycle — a new game is simply there next time you load the page.
How do you put us on your home screen?
Both mobile browsers can make a shortcut that opens us full-screen with its own icon. It's the closest thing to an app here, and it takes fifteen seconds.
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On iPhone, in Safari
Open oxibet.com in Safari — not Chrome on iOS, and not a browser inside another app. Tap Share, scroll to Add to Home Screen, rename it if you'd rather it were less obvious, then tap Add.
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On Android, in Chrome
Open the site, tap the three-dot menu, choose Add to Home screen. Some builds call it Install app — same shortcut mechanism, still not a Play Store install.
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Launch it and check
It should open full-screen with no address bar. That's the benefit: more reel area, no stray taps on browser chrome mid-spin.
What you gain
- Full-screen play with the address bar out of the way
- An icon to tap instead of an address to type
- Its own session container on most devices, so you sign in less often
- No storage used and no permissions requested
What it isn't
- Not an app — it's your browser in a frameless window
- No push notifications, so no promotion or bet-settled alerts
- No offline mode; you still need a live connection
- Deleting the icon deletes only the icon, never your account
Why does your phone sign you out so often?
This is the difference you'll notice first, and it isn't a setting of ours. Mobile Safari and Chrome clear cookies and site data far harder than desktop browsers. Safari's tracking prevention discards site data after stretches of non-use, and both reclaim storage under memory pressure. A session that would hold for days on a laptop can expire on a phone in a fraction of that.
No toggle overrides browser policy, ours or yours. Three things make it less irritating: keep credentials in a password manager so signing in is one tap, launch from the home-screen shortcut, and skip private browsing for real-money play, since a private window discards everything on close by design.
What gives way first on a weak connection?
The failure order is predictable, which makes it easy to plan around. Slots load their assets once, then trade tiny messages with our server each round, so they hold up on modest hardware and a mediocre signal. Crash and instant games behave the same. The sportsbook sits a step up, since live odds refresh continuously.
Live dealer is the outlier, because it's continuous video from a real table. On a congested connection the stream degrades first: resolution drops, the picture stutters, then the feed cuts while the round carries on regardless. Nothing else suffers — you can lose a live table and still spin a slot without noticing.
If your signal dies mid-spin
Nothing is lost. We settle a slot outcome on our servers the moment you press spin, not when the animation finishes, so a dropped connection can't cost you a result. Reload the game and check your history — the round is done and any win is credited. An accepted sports bet stands the same way.
How much data and battery does an hour cost?
We won't print megabyte figures, because consumption swings with stream quality, device, game and how a provider encodes video. Anything precise would be invented. What we can give you is the ranking, which is what decides whether to open a table on a capped plan.
| Activity | Data per hour | Battery | On a weak signal |
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| Browsing the lobby | Minimal | Light | Thumbnails load slowly, nothing breaks |
| Slots and instant games | Low | Light | Assets take longer to load, then play normally |
| Sportsbook with live odds | Low to moderate | Moderate | Odds refresh with a lag; bets still submit |
| Live dealer video | High | Heavy | First to degrade, then to cut out entirely |
Slots on mobile data are a non-issue for most plans. An hour of live blackjack is closer to an hour of video streaming, so keep live tables for Wi-Fi if your allowance is tight, and close the table rather than leaving it open in a background tab.
Battery follows the same ranking, since decoding video is one of the heaviest things a phone does. Screen brightness compounds it, and dropping a few steps buys real time. Backgrounding the browser pauses nothing: at a live table the round runs on the dealer's schedule. If you step away, leave the table rather than the tab.
How do you keep the phone side safe?
A phone gets lost, borrowed and left face-up far more often than a laptop, so the basics matter more here, not less.
Lock the device
Every other precaution collapses if an unlocked phone hands somebody a signed-in session.
Don't store the password in a shared browser
Credentials saved on a family device are readable in plain text through settings. A password manager with its own lock is the right home.
Sign out on shared handsets
If a partner, housemate or minor uses the phone, end the session deliberately rather than trusting a closed tab.
Keep the cashier off café Wi-Fi
Browsing on public networks is low-stakes. Moving money is better on mobile data or a network you control.
Protect the registered inbox
Whoever holds your email can reset your password with us. Give it a strong password of its own and two-factor.
Install nothing
No extension, no APK, no "faster loading" helper. We need none of them, and anything claiming otherwise wants access it shouldn't have.
The cashier behaves identically on a phone: same methods, the same C$10 minimum deposit and C$50 minimum withdrawal, the same C$1,500 daily and C$3,000 weekly limits. Crypto is often easier here, since you can copy or scan the deposit address, hop to your wallet app and hop back. Our payments page covers timings and documents, and our help and support page covers reaching us if something stalls.
A phone is always within reach, and that's exactly the problem. Playing on a laptop has natural friction — you sit down, you open it, you decide to start. Mobile removes all of it, which is why phone sessions tend to be shorter but far more frequent. That makes deposit limits, session timers and reality checks more useful on a phone, not less. Set them before you need them, and read our responsible gambling page for how each works and where free confidential provincial support sits.
Mobile questions
Is there an Oxibet app for iPhone or Android?
No. We run in the browser on both platforms. Real-money gambling apps under an Anjouan licence aren't distributed through the Canadian App Store or Google Play, so every operator in our category is browser-first. Any downloadable file presented as our official app came from somewhere other than us, and shouldn't be installed on your phone.
Do I get fewer games on a phone?
No. The mobile lobby carries the same 3,000-plus titles, the same live tables and the same sportsbook, on one account and one balance. Modern slots are built mobile-first, so most look better in portrait than they did a few years back. A handful of older games are more comfortable in landscape, but nothing is withheld.
Why does my phone keep signing me out?
Mobile browsers clear cookies and site data much harder than desktop ones. Safari discards site data after stretches of non-use, and both browsers reclaim storage under memory pressure, so mobile sessions expire sooner. That's browser policy rather than a setting of ours. A password manager and the home-screen shortcut both make it less noticeable.
What happens if my connection drops mid-spin?
Nothing is lost. We settle the outcome on our servers the moment you press spin, not when the animation finishes. If the signal fails partway through, the round is already decided and any win is credited to your balance. Reload the game and check your history to confirm. Accepted sports bets stand the same way.
Which activity uses the most mobile data?
Live dealer, by a wide margin, because it streams video for as long as the table is open. Browsing the lobby is minimal, slots are low since assets load once and rounds are tiny exchanges, and the sportsbook sits between them because live odds refresh constantly. Keep live tables for Wi-Fi if your plan is capped.
Does switching apps pause a live round?
No. Live tables run on the dealer's schedule rather than yours, so backgrounding the browser mid-round pauses nothing — the betting window closes on time and the round is dealt whether you're watching or not. On slots it makes no difference, since the game waits for your next spin. Leave the table, not the tab.
Open us in the browser you already have
No download, no store, no update cycle. The full lobby, cashier and sportsbook load on one account from the phone in your hand.
Open Oxibet on your phone18+ / 19+ by province. Not available in Ontario. We are browser-based on iOS and Android with no native app on any platform. Live dealer play uses substantially more data and battery than slots. Full terms apply.