How We Check Casino Apps

14 store listings from casino operators and 5 provincial platforms. A row is an app listing, not a brand, because several operators publish one app per province.

• Ontario: operators on the iGaming Ontario operator list.
• Alberta: companies on the AGLC gaming registrants list in the class “iGaming - Operator”, matched to the app’s developer.

An operator we cannot confirm for a province does not appear there. That is why the lists differ by province, and why some brands are missing in some places.

Store declarations are quoted as the developers made them; neither Apple nor Google verifies them in advance. Where the two stores disagree about the same app, we show both.

Registers list companies, stores list developers, and the two names are often different. A brand may run its Ontario business through one company and publish its app through another inside the same group. We match an app to a register entry only when the link is clear from the operator’s own disclosures, the store listing or the register itself, and we record the matching company name. Where the link is only probable, the app is not shown in that province until we can confirm it.

The same rule decides which of several look-alike listings belongs where. An app with “Ontario” in its store name is shown for Ontario only; an app with “Ontario & Alberta” for both.

Privacy labels and Data safety sections are the only standard, public statements every casino app makes about its data. They are written by the developers and not verified in advance by Apple or Google, so we present them as declarations: who said what, where, and when we read it. When the same app tells the two stores different things, we show both rather than choosing one. A reader can then put the question to the operator, which is the party that can answer it.

Stores change listings without notice: an app is renamed, moves to a new developer account or disappears from one store. Operators change payment methods and payout times. When our check finds a change, the row is updated; when an app is withdrawn from a store, the column says so rather than keeping the old figure. If you notice a figure that no longer matches the store or the operator, the date beside it tells you how old our reading is.

• We do not play the games or test payouts with our own money.
• We do not rate games, software or customer service.
• The order of apps within a province follows our default operator list; it is not a score.

Operators pay us a commission when you sign up through some links; see the disclosures at the top of each page. It does not decide which apps may appear, which the registers do.

Store data is refreshed regularly; the date of the last check appears on every page that uses it. Registers are re-checked when we update the lists.

Each refresh reads every listing again and replaces the whole data set at once, so the figures on a row always come from the same check. If a store does not answer, or a listing comes back without its developer, privacy label or Data safety section, nothing is replaced: the previous figures stay, and the date on the page shows how old they are.