ToonieBet App Ontario: Which of the Two to Install

Two ToonieBet Apps, One for Ontario

Two apps carry the ToonieBet name and the gold maple-leaf logo in Canada’s App Store, and only one of them is built for Ontario. The Ontario app comes from Canadix Limited, the company on the iGaming Ontario register; the other is tied to tooniebet.com, which serves the other provinces.

The Globalix app says so in its own description: it is designed for Canadian players outside Ontario, sets 18 as the minimum age and links to tooniebet.com, with weekly challenges, a shop and collections. None of that applies to an Ontario account.

ToonieBet’s Ontario listing in Apple’s Canadian store (top), 46th in the Casino chart, and on Google Play (bottom).

Three Company Names Around One App

Read the small print on the Ontario app and three different names turn up, which makes checking the publisher harder than it should be.

• Canadix Limited is the seller on the App Store and the developer on Google Play, with a contact address at canadixltd.com. This is the name to look for.
• Globalix appears inside the Android package name, com.globalix.tooniebet, even though Globalix Holding Limited is the company behind the other app.
• Fankong Global Limited is the copyright holder printed at the foot of the App Store page.

Canadix runs two more Ontario casinos on the same platform, and their apps sit under the same publisher name:

ToonieBet has by far the most ratings of the three. The lobbies behind the apps are close cousins too: our Betinia review and Swiper review counted 6,049 and 6,047 games, against 6,183 here.

The Download Page on tooniebet.ca

ToonieBet’s own app page, tooniebet.ca/ca/mobile-app, says one thing in its text and does another with its buttons.

The top of the ToonieBet app page, read from Toronto: App Store and Google Play buttons and a QR code.

The text tells Android users that, because Google Play restricts gambling apps in some regions, ToonieBet provides a direct APK download, that they should allow installs from unknown sources, and that the QR code starts the download. Read from Toronto, the site has no APK file at all. The Google Play button opens the Ontario listing on Google Play, the App Store button opens the Canadian App Store page of the Ontario app, and the QR code is a tracking link that sends a phone to the matching store and a computer back to tooniebet.ca.

The iPhone steps on the same page tell you to search for “ToonieBet Ontario Casino App”, a name the app does not use. The buttons are the reliable part of the page; the instructions are not.

Skip the APK

A Google search for “tooniebet apk” in Canada puts a third-party APK site first, with version 1.2.27 of the Ontario app, while Google Play is on 2.0.1. A file from outside the store does not update itself and asks you to switch off one of Android’s protections to install it. The store version needs neither.

Searching the Stores for ToonieBet

Inside the store apps the search leads straight to the real ToonieBet; Apple’s website and Google are messier.

• App Store app: “tooniebet” and “toonie bet” return the Ontario app first, the Globalix app second and a TonyBet app third.
• Apple’s website: the same search lists three TonyBet apps and BET99 before ToonieBet Ontario. TonyBet is a separate Ontario casino run by another company; the names are one letter apart.
• Google Play: the Ontario app is the featured result, and no second ToonieBet app appears in Canada.
• Google: “tooniebet app” shows the App Store page, the Google Play page and tooniebet.ca in the first three places, then the Globalix app and tooniebet.com, which serves the other provinces.

Installing ToonieBet in Ontario

Use the account you opened at tooniebet.ca; the app asks for the same location permission as the website, because each bet has to be placed from inside Ontario.

ToonieBet on iPhone

1. In the App Store, search for “tooniebet”.
2. Choose ToonieBet Ontario: Live Casino, sold by Canadix Limited, not ToonieBet – Casino & Betting.
3. Make sure the phone has iOS 15.0 or newer and room for about 202 MB, then install and sign in.

ToonieBet on Android

1. Open Google Play, or tap the Google Play button on tooniebet.ca/ca/mobile-app.
2. Pick ToonieBet Ontario: Live Casino with CANADIX LIMITED under the title and the Real Gambling label.
3. Install it, log in and grant the location permission. There is no need to change the unknown-sources setting.

What You Get in the ToonieBet App

The app opens the same account, wallet and lobby as tooniebet.ca, with the casino and the sportsbook side by side. The store descriptions undersell the lobby and oversell the cashier, so here is how they compare with what we counted and what the terms say.

For help, call 1-844-789-4200 at any hour, or use live chat or email. If signing in from the app fails, our ToonieBet login guide covers the location check and two-factor codes.

ToonieBet’s Data Declarations

Apple’s labels for the Ontario app include location in the tracking category, and Google’s entry names photos and files among data passed to others.

• App Store: location, user content and identifiers can follow you across apps and websites run by other companies; your contact details, user content and identifiers are tied to your identity, while location, usage data and diagnostics are gathered without it.
• Google Play: the developer may pass files and documents, payment info, photos, precise location and device IDs on to other companies, and gathers personal details including name, postal address, email and phone, app interactions, the list of installed apps, emails and crash logs. Everything is sent encrypted, and the listing says you may have your data erased.

How these declarations and scores compare across the province is laid out in our Ontario apps ranking.