Appworthy

Provenance App

Retro console game emulator.

Joseph Mattiello
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating3.3★751 ratings
PriceFreeIn-app $3.99–$99.99
Age9+Store age rating
Size2,535 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperJoseph Mattiello

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • Free to download · in-app purchases $3.99–$99.99 (3 listed). The store doesn’t say how often these bill.
  • If you subscribe through the store, cancel in iPhone Settings → your name → Subscriptions. Deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 3.3.0, updated 2026-01-29.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Provenance EMU is a multi-console emulator for many vintage arcade and console systems.

Systems:

- Atari

- Atari 2600

- Atari 5200

- Atari 7800

- Atari 8bit Computer

- Atari Jaguar

- Atari Lynx

- Bandai

- WonderSwan

- CBS

- CBS ColecoVision

- Enterprise

- Enterprise 128

- IBM

- IBM PC DOS

- Magnavox

- Magnavox Odyssey2

- Mattel

- Mattel Intellivision

- NEC

- PC98

- PCFX

- SuperGrafx

- TurboGrafx-16

- TurboGrafx-CD

- Nintendo

- 3DS

- DS

- Famicom Disk System

- Game Boy

- Game Boy Advance

- Game Boy Color

- GameCube

- NES

- Nintendo 64

- Pokémon mini

- Super Nintendo

- Virtual Boy

- Panasonic

- 3DO

- Philiips

- CDi

- Sega

- 32X

- Dreamcast

- Game Gear

- Genesis

- Master System

- Saturn

- Sega CD

- SG-1000

- Smith Engineering

- Vectrex…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

4 measured · 4 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
Under 65% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 3.3.0 · 2026-01-29
- New and improved cores and save state selection menus on game start - More accurate, restyled FPS and performance monitoring HUD - iCloud sync improvements for ROMs and save states, including metadata edits and artwork changes† - Shader filters fixed and expanded (RetroArch/PPSSPP/Dolphin) - Added skin support for Dolphin, PPSSPP, and RetroArch cores - Fixed save state screenshots in RetroArch cores - Fixed GLES RetroArch cores not rendering (VecX, Mupen) - 32X controller mapping fixes and improved Start/Select mappings for PlayStation, Switch, and Xbox controllers (Share/Options) - Sega CD CHD support in GenesisPlusGX - Faster main UI navigation and improved pause menu - Skin browsing…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
provenance-app
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
3.30 ★ · 751 ratings
Version
3.3.0
Updated
29 Jan 2026
Price
Free · In-app purchases
Age rating
9+
Size
2,535 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Joseph Mattiello
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free · In-app purchases

Purchases the store lists

 What this app sells

From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.

Show 3 more purchases we couldn’t categorise

These are really on sale; we just can’t tell from the name whether they recur.

Provenance PlusTerm not stated$3.99
Provenance PlusTerm not stated$99.99
Provenance PlusTerm not stated$39.99

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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