New Bingo Sites 2026

New Bingo Sites 2026

A new bingo site in 2026 is a very different beast to a new bingo site 13 years ago when I first started writing about bingo and slots! Read on to learn why!

1. A new breed of new bingo site
2. Why play at a new bingo site?
3. All new bingo sites are not equal
4. When is a new bingo site, not a new bingo site?
5. The state of online bingo in 2026
6. What else to expect in 2026

A new breed of new bingo site that’s not just about bingo

During the 2010s, hundreds of new bingo sites were launched that focused on and were built around the bingo product, with a limited choice of slot games.

Since the rise of Pragmatic Play’s innovative bingo software, while there are plenty of new sites launched that have bingo rooms, it’s just a small part of a much larger range of slots and other games. And now that Playtech have come up with a version of their much loved bingo software that can be added to casinos in much the same way as the Pragmatic Play product, we expect to see even more of this.

Essentially, instead of new bingo sites we’re mostly getting new slot and casino sites with bingo, or even old slot and casino sites with newly added bingo.  And indeed, most of the new bingo sites we featured in 2025 were Progress Play casinos that had added Playtech bingo.

Are these new style bingo sites any good?  It depends what you are looking for in a new bingo site.

• If you just want somewhere different to play bingo, fine.
• If you want a bonus you can play bingo with, maybe.  Many of these casinos with bingo have an offer that is for slots not bingo (and even some more traditional bingo sites have purely slots offers now).
• If you’re looking for a community to be part of, maybe not – most of these new style bingo sites have no chat in their bingo rooms at all.  Mind you, neither do a lot of traditional bingo sites these days.

Why play at a new bingo site?

If you’ve never tried online bingo before, you’ll probably want to go for one of the big name bingo sites  where you’ll get hosted chat, a real sense of community and the reassurance of a household name (although as will be seen from our page about trust and safety at iGaming sites, the size of the brand does NOT necessarily guarantee that your money is safe).

If you’ve signed up at one of these top tier bingo sites and are happy with the range of bingo rooms, prize money, player promotions and slot games, you may not have thought of trying anywhere else. There are lots of potential reasons, though, why you might want to give a new for 2026 bingo site a go:

• To try out some different games – whether they be bingo games, slots, Slingo, game shows or something more niche like video bingo or crash games
• In search of a better bingo experience – bingo rooms that hit that elusive sweet spot between being boringly quiet or so busy that you never win anything, better player promotions, more people to chat with
• In search of a better player experience overall – usability on your preferred device, more payment options (but not credit cards as they can’t be used for any gambling transactions in the UK), better RTP on slot games, more player friendly terms and conditions, better customer service

And of course, you get to claim a fresh welcome offer and in some cases play in a dedicated free bingo room for newbies.

All new bingo sites are not equal

Once you’ve played at a few different bingo sites you will soon notice that some of them (well, let’s be honest and say most of them) have exactly the same bingo rooms, slot games and promotions as each other, with only the home page looking different. For example, most Jumpman sites have the same Mega Wheel welcome offer, and all Dragonfish bingo sites have the same basic 75 and 90 ball bingo rooms (though some have extras).

This is because both Jumpman and Dragonfish provide an off the shelf product for anyone who wants to open their own online bingo site without having to do any software development or apply for a licence – otherwise known as a white label or skin site. The licensing, account verification, payment processing and other technical matters are all handled centrally and in most cases so is the customer service. Opening a new bingo site on one of these platforms is not as quick and easy as it once was, though; due to increased regulation Jumpman have become a whole lot fussier about who they will work with and Dragonfish even more so.

Although a lot of new bingo sites are skins, the quality of skins can vary.  For example, a new Dragonfish skin site with added extras such as exclusive bingo rooms and promotions would tick many more items on our wishlist than a new Jumpman skin site does (especially as the Jumpman bingo rooms aren’t even unique to Jumpman but are networked with every other site on the Pragmatic Play bingo software).

The renaissance of Playtech bingo means that we are seeing a wave of sites launching that take bingo much more seriously than the usual casino adding bingo.  The likes of Queen’s Bingo and Zebra Bingo have proper chat and a sense of community and it’s great to see!

Very occasionally (less than once a year), a new bingo site is launched that offers something completely different.  For example, there’s BingoPlus which showcases an innovative live bingo product. They are British through and through and we’ve been to their studios!

When is a new bingo site, not a new bingo site?

After 2024 when there was just BingoPlus, a few more genuinely new bingo sites launched in 2025 including Panda Bingo, Queen’s Bingo and Zebra Bingo.  But that’s still just a handful, so where did the rest of the listings on the page come from?  Some are relaunches of old sites that haven’t been promoted to anyone for years and some are casino, slot or lottery sites that added bingo.

Relaunches

Most of our “relaunch” listings are of brands that moved to completely different bingo software and/or have a new bingo welcome offer that is open to everyone even if they’ve played at that site before. For example, Kitty Bingo moving from proprietary software to Virtue Fusion and Lovehearts Bingo becoming a No Wagering site. If everyone is able to sign up and claim the welcome offer regardless of whether they’ve played there previously, it’s effectively an entirely new site.  We also list the occasional relaunch on the same software, but only if there has been a really major design change or the site has been off the radar for a long time (Bingo Loft for example, which was was last promoted many years ago when it was a TV tie-in called Big Brother Bingo).

Casino, slot or lottery sites that added bingo

This trend started when the excellent Pragmatic Play bingo software was first launched back in 2019 and has been gathering steam ever since as it’s now so much easier for established operators to add bingo rooms to their sites.  It went mainstream when PlayOJO, which had been around for many years as a well known online casino, added bingo back in 2020.  Lottery sites such as Lottogo have also added bingo, again thanks to Pragmatic Play.

Then there’s the casino and slot sites that have quietly added Pragmatic Play bingo rooms almost as an afterthought, leaving players to stumble across them.  The welcome offers at these sites don’t include any bingo bonus and the bingo rooms don’t have any chat, but they can be ideal for players who like to play slots and a bit of bingo.

We add all of these sites to our New Bingo Sites listings regardless of whether there’s a bingo welcome offer, to give players as much choice as possible.

We saw even more of this sort of thing in 2025 when Playtech bingo was added to a load of Progress Play casinos, and expect it to continue in 2026.

When do we remove bingo sites from the New Bingo Sites listings?

That’s an easy one!  We take them off the New Bingo Sites listings when player interest wanes and we can see that hardly anyone is following the link.  How long that takes is pretty variable; MrQ, as a unique brand, was still attracting interest more than a year after launch and so was BingoPlus.  With a skin site, on the other hand, the interest drops off very sharply as soon as a newer site appears on the same platform.

The state of online bingo in 2026

New Bingo Sites – Dragonfish and Jumpman

Online bingo boomed during 2020 and 2021 when people couldn’t get out or socialise much, but since then it has been largely a case of consolidation rather than expansion in the online bingo world, with the two largest networks of white label bingo sites Dragonfish and Jumpman contracting rather than expanding, especially as both have had a change of ownership in the last few years.

The sale of Dragonfish to Broadway Gaming was agreed at the end of 2021 but it took a while for the transfer to complete. Unfortunately it led to quite a lot of closures of Dragonfish bingo sites, including all four of the new ones that opened in 2022 and 2023, and there may well be more to come.  Players from the closed sites have been encouraged to switch to better known sites like Wink Bingo.  Dragonfish also reduced the total number of bingo rooms, removed almost all of their jackpot games so that most of the prizes are pretty rubbish and merged what used to be a number of separate networks together so now, all Dragonfish sites have the same core bingo rooms.  The result is that Dragonfish bingo sites are now even more all the same as each other than they used to be, the bingo rooms are quiet, the prize money is underwhelming, the chat is absent or only available at peak times and there haven’t been any new Dragonfish sites (that are still open) for more than three years.

And that’s not all! Dragonfish made further changes so that players could only have accounts at a maximum of 20 Dragonfish sites and that all bonuses and rewards would be voided without warning if a player didn’t log into their account at least once every 5 days (previously it was 90 days).  This is exactly the kind of thing we were talking about earlier that makes players want to move on.  You only have to peek into the bingo rooms at a Dragonfish site to see that all of these changes have not gone down at all well with players and very few of our users seem to be interested in Dragonfish bingo sites these days.

A majority stake in Jumpman Gaming was acquired in 2022 by Super Group who also own Betway.  The main effect of this so far has been a slowdown in new site launches and in many older Jumpman sites stopping acquisition, plus a major change in lobby design.

Jumpman don’t have their own bingo software (they did, but it was retired back in 2020) and instead have a limited selection of Pragmatic Play bingo rooms.  They have a similar inactivity clause to Dragonfish (in their case it’s 7 days) and although the new lobby gives bingo a bit more prominence they are largely focused on slots, with no bingo bonuses or promotions. They also have no chat in any of their bingo rooms and for many online bingo players that is quite simply a deal breaker.

New Bingo Sites – Pragmatic Play and Playtech

Apart from the very occasional launch of a unique bingo product (i.e. Happy Tiger in 2022 and BingoPlus in 2024), Pragmatic Play cornered the market for new bingo sites in the early 2020s.  The beauty of Pragmatic Play bingo for operators is its versatility; it can be implemented as a “full fat” bingo product with hosted chat and exclusive bingo rooms and promotions as seen at PlayOJO or as a simple plug in of networked bingo rooms with no chat (as at Jumpman sites).  Pragmatic Play bingo sites can therefore be very different from each other and which ones you prefer will depend on what you are looking for in a bingo site.

In 2025, a surprise new player came on the scene – or should we say, a reinvention of an old player.  Playtech came up with a new version of their market leading bingo product that can be implemented as a plug-in of networked bingo rooms in much the same way as Pragmatic Play’s product.  Trialled at Heart Bingo and at lots of Progress Play casinos during early 2025, it’s now started to be implemented at older Playtech bingo sites including Mecca Bingo and Sun Bingo.  Queen’s Bingo was the first Progress Play site with Playtech bingo to be promoted as primarily a bingo site, and we feel sure it won’t be the last!

New Bingo Software & Games

It’s rare for new bingo software to be launched in the UK.  There were two bingo products that looked like they might be coming here, End2End (an Argentinian provider who were at one stage set to power bingo at Aspire Global casinos) and LiveG24 (a live casino provider whose live bingo product features a caller drawing balls from a lottery style machine). Both went so far as to acquire a UK licence but nothing came of it and neither still have one.

If you’re looking for a change, try BingoPlus which runs on its own software with its own live callers and is genuinely new and different. Alternatively you could try one of the many live casino game shows such as Mega Ball, Monopoly Big Baller, and Crazy Balls which -play very much like bingo games.  Ezugi (a subsidiary of Evolution) actually have a 90 ball live bingo game but it’s not available in the UK.

Meanwhile new bingo games continue to be launched by Playtech, Pragmatic Play and Entain (whose bingo product has been quietly going from strength to strength with the introduction of new bingo games including Slingo Bingo, free to play slot tournaments every day, big jackpot games and many other engaging player promotions including the introduction of Foxy Dollars in game currency).

Where’s The Growth?

Dragonfish and Jumpman (and others) getting rid of the chat in the bingo rooms has actually created an opportunity for some of the big name bingo sites to go the other way by bigging up their community and chat and bringing together online and offline bingo .  Buzz Bingo for example have many hours of bingo each week with a live host who appears on video and joins in the chat, and their latest initiative has big money games that play in Buzz clubs as well as on line.  Mecca Bingo are going down the same route.

Mobile first

It’s clear from our own visitor stats that not only are more and more of you playing bingo and slots on mobile, an increasing number never play on any other device, and that means that the way people play and interact has been evolving over the last 10 years and will continue to do so.

If you’re playing bingo on your phone you’re highly likely to be doing something else at the same time – watching TV, chatting, scrolling through social media, paying attention so as not to miss getting off the bus at the right stop or possibly even a taking a phone call. This means that mobile content works best if it is snackable i.e. delivered in bite size chunks. A single bingo game is about the right length for that and so are a few slot spins.  It’s also understandable that there’s less demand for chat as there are so many other potential distractions.

It’s not just about duration though, it’s about usability.  To make a traditional bingo game playable on a mobile phone screen is quite difficult as there’s so much going on, and over the last few years operators have responded by developing single ticket multi stake bingo games and other variants which have a “mobile first” design. And this is another issue which impacts chat – there’s usually not room for game and chat at the same time on the screen of a mobile phone.

Another issue with mobile play occurs when the bingo software doesn’t have schedule buy (Dragonfish, I’m looking at you!)  The problem is that with only a short window before the game starts in which to buy tickets, it’s easy to get distracted or hit a data blackspot and miss it, especially if you have to do a lot of faffing about to select the right number of tickets.

Mobile first, then, remains very much the future of online bingo and operators and game developers forget it at their peril.

Old Favourites Still Rule

Despite the many new forms of bingo that game developers have come up with over the last few years, players return time and time again to that British classic, 90 ball bingo and to its close relative Deal Or No Deal 90.  That’s why both Entain and Pragmatic Play have both come up with their own versions of the game in the last few years; Entain‘s is called Deal Or No Deal 90 but with branding from the US version of the show instead of the iconic red boxes, and Pragmatic’s is called Diamond Dazzle.

What else to expect in 2026

• Drastic Welcome Offer Changes
• Harmonisation of “Affordability Checks”
• Tax Rise Impacts Players
• Promotions That Aren’t Bonuses
• Slot Game RTP Gets Worse
• Even Less Chat At Bingo Sites

Drastic Welcome Offer Changes

The UK Gambling White Paper had a whole section about reviewing bonuses, advertising and marketing; after nearly three years, the consultations are over and the changes are coming into force in January 2026.  The proposals that were consulted on fall well short of a complete ban on advertising and promotions, but it’s likely they will seriously affect bonus offers for new and existing players:

• They looked at wagering requirements and whether they should be banned altogether or capped.  A cap of 10x bonus has been adopted. It may not have much effect on bingo bonuses as they normally have a lower wagering requirement than that anyway, but expect slot bonuses and spins offers to get a lot less generous!
• They considered a ban on mixing bonuses for different products in the same offer and decided to implement it.  The exact wording is that operators must not “include more than one type of gambling product (betting, casino, bingo, and lottery) within an incentive”. So it’s goodbye to all those bonus bundles containing slot spins or slot bonus as well as bingo bonus or bingo tickets.  There doesn’t seem to be any problem with offering a purely slot based welcome offer for a site which has bingo, though.

Harmonisation of “Affordability Checks”

Affordability checks have been a thing for a few years now but with no clear instructions from the Gambling Commission to operators on how to implement them, some operators have required players to send in copies of bank statements, payslips and so on to prove how much spare money they have.  Needless to say this has not gone down well with players, so it’s good news that the process has now been standardised and has become focused on whether players have debt problems rather on precisely how much spare cash they have.  So it’s goodbye “affordability checks” and hello financial vulnerability checks.

There are two levels of financial vulnerability check:

• Light touch check (similar to a credit check, looking for CCJs and the like) triggered by net deposits (deposits minus withdrawals) exceeding a threshold in a rolling 30 day period.  These checks have been a licence requirement since 2024 and the threshold is £150 of net deposits.
• Full check – these will be triggered by a larger net deposit amount still to be decided on (£1000 in a day has been suggested) and have been tested by a few big operators using historical data. They are not yet a licence requirement but we expect the Gambling Commission to take action on that in the near future.  In the test, more than 95% of checks were able to be completed without the need to request anything from the player.

For those who do still end up having to send in documents, some of the bigger operators have been investigating the use of Open Banking technology as an alternative.  This would allow you to authorise your bank to share your data with the operator via a trusted third party over a secure channel to establish how much you can afford to spend on gambling products, most likely determined by an computer program without a human being involved.  While this is both better for data security and less hassle than sending copies of documents over the internet, it’s understandable that players might feel uneasy about it.

Tax Rise Impacts Players

You may have heard that the November 2025 budget helped bingo players by abolishing bingo duty.  But that’s only part of the story:

• The abolition of bingo duty applies to bingo halls only.
• Online bingo counts as “remote casino” which means that the tax on it is going up in April, from 21% to 40%.

It’s very likely that operators will seek to pass some of this tax burden on to players.

Promotions That Aren’t Bonuses

Several things have happened over the last few years to affect player promotions

• The wagering requirement and bundling changes mentioned earlier
• Operators have to get a separate opt in for each product (bingo, casino, sports, lottery) and only send promotions to opted in players.  So no sending a slot spins promotion to comeone who’s only opted into bingo, for example
• Operators have to be careful that their promotions don’t break responsible gambling rules by enticing players to spend more than they intended.
• The new tax rate will mean operators have less money to spend on promotions

We expect to see more promotions for existing players that are designed to engage and entertain without requiring a big spend and don’t fall foul of the new marketing rules. Daily free games are one way of doing this, but some operators have gone much further.  For example, there’s the Foxy Dollars scheme at Foxy Bingo which includes daily free slot tournaments and adds a whole load of extra entertainment value to encourage players to visit every day.

Slot Game RTP Gets Worse

Over the last few years many slot game providers have moved away from making slot games with a fixed Return To Player and started making games where the RTP can be chosen by the casino from within a range.  It’s not just new slot games either – operator configurable RTP has been added to many classic slot games such as Starburst, Shaman’s Dream and Immortal Romance.  Starburst for example has RTP of 96.09%, 94.05% or 92.05% depending on where you play it – so quite a difference!

We’ve noticed a downward creep in slot game RTP at UK sites over the last couple of years as operator costs go up and we expect to see a lot more of it because of the tax rise.  It’s a stealth way for them to squeeze more out of players as the RTP is usually only shown in the game help files where most people won’t look.

Even Less Chat At Bingo Sites

Ten years ago, all bingo sites had hosted chat and it was considered a must-have.  In the late 2010s, as the percentage of players using mobile phones instead of big screens went up, the chat started to go into a decline.  It’s not just screen size that is the issue either – when you’re playing bingo on your phone you’re very likely to be doing something else at the same time and the chat just doesn’t hold your attention in the same way.

After a temporary resurgence during 2020 and 2021 when everyone was spending a lot of time at home with fewer distractions, hosted chat is well on the way to becoming a minority interest.  With very few exceptions, bingo sites that are powered by Pragmatic Play don’t have any chat and in the case of many bingo sites that do have hosted chat, there’s very little player participation.  Even some of the biggest operators like bet365 and Unibet have ditched the chat from their bingo rooms.

If you’re still interested in old fashioned “proper” bingo sites with exclusive bingo events and promotions and a lively community, sites with no chat are not going to hit the mark.  But chat alone is no longer really enough, because so many players are on mobile phones which pulls active participation down.  Bingo sites need other ways to build community – as seen at Buzz Bingo where there’s interactive live bingo plus events that run at their bingo halls as well as online.

All of that is very expensive to put in place and run, so while we expect to be able to bring you several new bingo sites in 2026, most probably won’t have chat and we don’t expect the ones that do to have much of a sense of community .