Consoles User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience57.4% of reviews
Neutral10.6% of reviews
Negative experience31.9% of reviews

~ Based on 47 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Consoles Safe?

Consoles has mixed safety signals based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Consoles is 69/100.

This assessment is based on 39 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.4/5.

Safety Analysis

59.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
33.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 39 App Store ratings for Consoles.

Is Consoles Legit?

Consoles has limited verification signals. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Consoles is 55/100.

Based on 55 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Importing is a nightmare,please do an update!!!

I’ve been using the simulator for about a few days now when it works it works excellent, but the only problem is importing ROMs into the directory for some reason, even if the Rams are in my own folders on my iPad, it still tries to grab files off of the iCloud server, which makes zero sense because the roms are already saved on my iPad so there is zero reason for it to try to use iCloud also furthermore when I upload more than 10 runs the program can’t seem to handle it and it crashes every time so I have to do one wrong amount of time it runs excellent but importing arms is an absolute nightmare and it’s kind of embarrassing because I’m on an iPad mini with an M1 processor so the specs to add any S games or SNES schemes this is unacceptable behaviour and it should be fixed
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Worked excellent till now

Won't even load games now-just goes back to the main screen

stay away

stick with delta. avoid this at all costs.

Constant Crashes on Import

Seems to run games OK, but attempting to import ROMs for any system causes the app to crash unless you do a single ROMs at a time. Not very useful when a full ROM set can be over 1000 files.

Seems odd to have to do this import anyway - why not just use an app folder that’s scanned on launch like so many other apps do?
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Excellent

Uses iCloud to be free from storing games on iPad . Very good emulation on iPad. I tried on apple tv with icloud on works as default user on Apple TV. On Apple TV :)

Excellent

Uses iCloud to be free from storing games on iPad . Very good emulation . tried on apple tv with icloud on but games dont appear on apple tv .

Works well when it works

I used the Mac version of the app to place the ROMS I wanted in iCloud. After a few moments the cover art appeared on first the Mac, then the Apple TV. However it is a bit uneven when the roms appear. Many of the SNES ones still have not, even though the Mac says they have been uploaded to the cloud.

Unlike Retroarch you can at least quit out of a game to get back to the menu on this one using a Nimbus controller.
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Great Emulator

Could we get N64 Support?

Not working

No instructors whatsoever. Rooms not load

Redddit Cashgrab and Ditched after a month

Don’t buy this garbage
It’s glitchy worthless trash.

Great when it works - would like to see PS1

I downloaded it hoping to play some of the classic games I have collecting dust in storage and don’t want to dig out. Installed on my Mac and Apple TV, then on the Mac dragged a couple ROM files to the emulator of choice. It went well and I played a few games but the next time I went to load it I got “Download Failed” alongside checking my internet connection. My internet connection was fine so no idea why this happened.

I’m troubleshooting again now and some games work while others don’t. Seems pretty random which will load and which won’t.
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There is no games

I wish I would’ve read the description a little better. There is no actual games included in this and there is no directions on how to get games loaded into. This would be nice for a little more cotton dry direction.

A lot of potential

The iCloud experience is seamless. The synchronization between devices is lightning fast. I feel like this is definitely the strongest point of the emulator that the developers should continue to advertise and lean into.

For right now, the features are a little bit more sparse, even for me, who’s not a power user. I would like the option to hide the console systems that I’m not playing in the menu, add new controller skins and different save states, but I can tell this product is going to be amazing!
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SNES games won’t work

SNES games won’t work

Scam

Need to improve does not work with controller I try with PlayStation and nimbus and only can uploads unzip files apple will not refund if you buy it

Almost perfect for those of us in the apple ecosystem.

Overall very nice. I just want to see turbo grafx-16 support and the aforementioned improvements to import my entire library vs 1 rom at a time. I’m using it with an Apple TV + 8bitdo controllers, an iPhone 15 + backbone, and maybe later on my Mac laptops.

Disappointed

Doesn’t work with 8BitDo M30 correctly some buttons are working some not. Has

Schechte Usability, Läuft nicht auf Apple TV

Die Usability ist schlechter, als bei vielen anderen Emulatoren. Ich habe es nur für Apple TV gekauft, allerdings bricht die App beim Synchronisieren mit iCloud ab.
Playstation ist nicht verfügbar.

Great Emulator, Bad Import Process

The emulator runs great. You don’t have to go through any of the weird setup hoops of most emulators, the sound and visuals are spot on, and the interface is excellent. The only problem is importing ROMS. If you try to import more than one or two roms at a time, the app crashes. It can be super tedious to have to navigate to your ROMs folder over and over just to add a single ROM. It really needs batch ROM importing.

With that said, once you manage to get your roms imported, they work on all of your devices. It keeps the ROMs in iCloud, so you just start up the app on Apple TV, and all your ROMs are there. It’s the best emulator available!
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Response from developer

Hi there! Consoles 2.0 is coming the in the near future and the importing system has been entirely re-written to support massive batch importing.

tvOS issues

The tvOS version is useless. I can see my game sync via iCloud but there’s now way to actually select and play it. I purchased the app for the sole purpose of being able to switch between iOS and tvOS and feel like I’ve been ripped off.

Response from developer

Hi there! Sorry, to hear you’re having an issue. If you cannot slide over the game, a workaround is to add more games. This happens because the sidebar, looks for games, directly to the right of the button. This means that sometimes a single row of games is not highlightable, because they are above the console button— we are rewriting this to fix it in a future update, but once you have more games in the list it will slide over.