LEONBET on iOS — a licence the regulator confirms
LEONBET
LEONBET is published by a company its regulator does list, by name, in two separate registers. The licence numbers most review sites quote for the LEON brand are revoked or absent from the registers they name.
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By Casino iOS · How we verify · Updated 8 August 2026
We have not installed this app or played on it. What follows is a record built from Apple’s store data and the sources we cite, not from use.
Sources disagree about this operator. We publish the disagreement rather than choosing between them. The listing is confirmed in the regulator's own register. What is misreported is the brand's licensing elsewhere: the Curaçao licence commonly quoted for LEON is recorded as revoked — at the licensee's own request, not by enforcement — and the Kahnawake permit commonly quoted does not appear in Kahnawake's register at all.
Verdict
This brand has one of the cleaner paper trails on the site. The App Store seller, SANDSTORM COMPANY LIMITED, appears in the Gaming Board of Tanzania's own registers for both sports betting and internet casino, trading as Leon Bet — a regulator confirming a licensee by name, which is the strongest evidence anywhere on this site. Against that: there is no iPad build, and the brand's licensing elsewhere is misreported almost everywhere you read about it.
What works
- The App Store seller appears by name in its regulator's own licensee registers
- Built for its market rather than translated into it — Swahili throughout, local leagues
- Still being maintained fourteen months after release
- Seller name and bundle identifier both make the listing easy to verify before installing
What does not
- Categorised under Sports alone, so the casino side is invisible to anyone browsing the store
- No iPad build at all
- Review sites widely attribute licences to this brand that the relevant registers do not support
- Nothing here tells you how the app behaves in use, because we could not install it
What the listing looks like
Checking you have the right app
Match these against what your App Store shows. They are the fields Apple returns for this listing, and they are how you tell the listing apart from an imitation.
- Seller of record: SANDSTORM COMPANY LIMITED
- Bundle ID:
tz.co.leonbet.mobile5 - Apple ID:
6744061574 - Store listing: https://apps.apple.com/tz/app/leonbet/id6744061574?uo=4
What Apple reports
Every row below is a field Apple returned for this listing on 9 August 2026.
| Version | 1.1.2 |
|---|---|
| Version released | 22 July 2026 |
| First released | 12 May 2025 |
| Download size | 93.5 MB |
| Requires | iOS 15.0 or later |
| Languages | EN, SW |
| Age rating | 17+ Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling; Gambling |
| Price | Free |
| Category | Sports |
| Runs on | iPhone only — no iPad build declared |
| Store rating | 4.2 from 12 ratings — too few to be meaningful. |
How well it is built
Computed from the store record above by the same rules applied to every app on this site — nothing here is set by hand for this brand. We have not installed it, so nothing below describes how it feels to use. How this is calculated, and how it compares .
7.0 build score, out of 10
Too few store ratings to score what users think
- Kept up to date 10/10
- Last updated 18 days before we checked
- Runs on older phones 8/10
- Requires iOS 15.0 or newer
- Built for more than one screen 3/10
- iPhone only — no iPad screenshots on the listing
Download 93.5 MB, about 39 s on a 20 Mbps connection.
Our assessment
5.5 out of 10
- Availability How many storefronts list it
- 2 out of 10
- Build What the store metadata shows about the app itself
- 6 out of 10
- Transparency How much we could verify about who runs it
- 8 out of 10
- Usefulness Whether a reader can act on any of it
- 6 out of 10
Set by hand, not measured. The headline figure is the average of the four axes above, nothing more. It is not the App Store's rating and not a prediction of whether you will win money — we have not installed either app. What each axis means.
The regulator confirms the licensee
This is the strongest verification on this site, so it is worth being precise about what it is.
The Gaming Board of Tanzania publishes registers of licensed operators. Sandstorm Company Limited — the seller named in the table above — appears in the sports betting register, trading as Leon Bet. The same company appears in the internet casino register under the same trade name.
So the company Apple names as the seller of this app is the company its regulator names as a licensee, under the brand the app carries. That is a regulator confirming a licensee by name, which is a materially better class of evidence than an operator’s own claim about itself — and better than anything we could establish for 1win, whose publisher we could not tie to the brand at all.
It also fits Apple’s guideline 5.1.1(ix), which says apps in highly regulated fields including gambling “should be submitted by a legal entity that provides the services”. Here, on the available evidence, it was.
The licence trail everywhere else, which is a mess
If you read reviews of the LEON brand, you will be told it holds a Curaçao licence, or a Kahnawake permit, or both. We checked the registers those claims name.
The Curaçao licence is revoked. The Curaçao Gaming Authority’s Online Gaming License Registry, updated 29 July 2026, contains at row 653:
OGL/2024/356/0288 — Moonlite N.V. — B2C — 140186 — December 12, 2024 — Revoked as of November 10, 2025, at the request of the [licensee]
OGL/2024/356/0288 is precisely the licence number some review sites still quote for LEON, and
Moonlite N.V. is one of the companies they name as its operator. It was revoked on 10 November
2025 — at the licensee’s own request, which the register states explicitly and which matters:
a voluntary surrender is not an enforcement action, and reading it as one would be wrong.
The Kahnawake permit is not there. The Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission publishes a list of
interactive permit holders. It contains no entry for Leon, Moonlite, Jade Reef Ventures, or any
leon domain.
The live licence is Anjouan, and it expires soon. The Anjouan Gaming Authority’s public register contains this record, which we retrieved directly:
Jade Reef Ventures Corp. — status valid — ALSI-202410001-FI1 — b2c — issued 2024-10-01 — expiry 2026-09-30 — domains: leonbz.bet, leon.net, leon.casino, leonbets.net, leonbets.com, twin.com, leon.bet, twinbz.bet
Two details there are worth having. The expiry is roughly eight weeks after we checked, so anyone
relying on it should re-check rather than trust this page’s date. And twin.com and twinbz.bet
sit under the same licence as the LEON domains — Leon and Twin are the same licensee.
What none of this covers is the app. The Anjouan licence lists .bet, .com, .casino and
.net domains. It does not list leonbet.co.tz, and it is not the licence behind this app. The
app rests on the licence the Gaming Board confirms, which is the one we could check.
And we did not check every LEON domain. The brand runs across a long list of them, and there is evidence their corporate footers are not identical — different domains name different operating companies. We verified the three registers above and we are not going to extrapolate from them to domains we did not open. Treat this section as covering the claims we found, not as a complete map of the brand.
The practical upshot: “LEON” is not one licensed entity but several arrangements in different jurisdictions, and a review quoting you a single confident licence number without naming the territory has not checked. If you open an account, the entity named on your contract, for your domain, is the one that matters — not the brand on the logo, and not what this page says about a different domain.
What the specifications do not settle
Three things stand out in the table above, and each is worth a sentence more than the number itself.
The download is mid-range across the snapshot and large for a single-market app — 93.5 MB, against 1.9 MB for the smallest of the twenty-four listings we hold and 269.6 MB for the largest. We are drawing no conclusion from that, because we have not installed any of them and a byte count does not establish how software is built.
The categorisation is narrower than the app. The listing sits under Sports alone, while the brand plainly runs casino games too. That breaks no rule: the listing carries two content advisories, and the one that matters is “Gambling”, which Apple defines as wagering real money as against simulated play. But it does mean the casino side is not discoverable by browsing the store.
The update record is the strongest thing in the file. A listing that first appeared in May 2025 and shipped its current version in July 2026 is being maintained fourteen months on, which is more than can be said for a great many gambling listings. The release notes say nothing useful; the dates are the evidence.
Who this is for
If this app appears in your App Store, the seller name matches the regulator’s register, and the bundle identifier above is how you confirm you have the right one.
If it is set anywhere else, the app is not available to you, and no VPN changes that — your storefront follows your Apple Account, not your traffic. What changing your App Store country does and does not do.
We have not installed this app, opened an account, or placed a bet. How we verify.
Sources
- 1. Apple App Store listing — LEONBET (primary, retrieved 2026-08-06)
- 2. Gaming Board of Tanzania — licensed sports betting operators (primary, retrieved 2026-08-06)
- 3. Gaming Board of Tanzania — licensed casino operators (primary, retrieved 2026-08-06)
- 4. Anjouan Gaming Authority — public licence register (primary, retrieved 2026-08-06)
- 5. Curaçao Gaming Authority — Online Gaming License Registry, updated 29 July 2026 (row 653) (primary, retrieved 2026-08-06)
- 6. Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission — list of interactive permit holders (primary, retrieved 2026-08-06)
- 7. Apple, App Review Guidelines — 5.3.3, 5.3.4 and 5.1.1(ix) (primary, retrieved 2026-08-06)