Mobile casinos are getting more and more popular all the time and it's very easy to see why. The convenience of mobile casinos means you really can play just about whenever and wherever you like. If online casinos made accessing casino games easy, mobile casinos have really taken things to the next level and now casino fans can get virtually instant access to all their favorite casino games. Whether you're looking for the best online slots, a few hands of blackjack or maybe a few spins of the roulette wheel, just reach into your pocket, grab your cell and away you go, in a matter of mere seconds!
However, one question that many people who are new to online and mobile casinos often ask concerns the necessity of apps, that is to say, mobile applications. In a way an app can be viewed as a download version of a traditional online casino. It is a semi-permanent piece of software that "houses" the casino and, theoretically, once downloaded, makes accessing the mobile casino quicker, easier and potentially offers a more stable gaming environment.
That may make you believe that downloading an app is the way to go if you want to play a mobile casino but, in fact, we usually advise simply visiting your favorite slots or casino site in your cell phone's browser. We don't know about you, but that is the way we normally access a desktop casino, preferring the instant play mode over the download casino, so why should a mobile casino be any different?
Improvements in the mobile versions of casinos and the superior processing power of modern cell phones mean that the difference between an app and instant play mobile casino is virtually non-existent. In addition, simply bookmarking the site, or just entering the URL manually (usually just starting typing the casino's address should bring up the full website from your history, depending on your settings), mean that using an app is also not really any quicker either.
Realizing that most customers are more than happy to use their casinos this way, many online casinos haven't even bothered developing a mobile app. Clearly, with these casinos the choice of whether "to app or not to app" isn't even a choice but, as said, even where a mobile casino does offer an app, we recommend using the instant play version. This way you can save your phone's storage and memory for more important things – like your bank's app to watch your balance grow from a nice big casino win!
