Provenance App vs JarBox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Provenance App
This application allows users to play classic games from a wide variety of vintage arcade and console systems. It supports numerous platforms, offering a comprehensive retro gaming experience.
- Multi-console emulation
- Supports Atari systems
- Supports Nintendo systems
- Supports Sega systems
- Supports Sony PlayStation
- Supports arcade and console games
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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 - SNK - Neo Geo - Neo Geo Pocket - Neo Geo Pocket Color - Sony - PlayStation - PlayStation Portable - Various - Game Music - Watara - Supervision - ZX - ZX Spectrum ----- Legal Notice ----- Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://provenance-emu.com/privacy/
JarBox
Relive classic mobile gaming on your iPhone. This app emulates J2ME games, allowing you to load and play your favorite .jar files from the past. Experience faithful 2D and 3D graphics with full sound support.
- Run J2ME games via .jar files
- Hardware-accelerated 3D support
- Pixel-perfect 2D rendering
- WAV, MP3, MIDI sound playback
- Supports various vendor extensions
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Remember when the best games fit in your pocket — on a phone with actual buttons? JarBox brings that era back to your iPhone. JarBox is a J2ME (Java ME) emulator that runs the MIDP 2.0 / CLDC 1.1 games and apps you grew up with. Just drop in a .jar file and play — no fuss, no setup. Features: - Run real J2ME games — load classic .jar titles straight from the Files app - Full 3D support — hardware-accelerated MascotCapsule micro3D and M3G, so the 3D classics look the way you remember them - Faithful 2D rendering — Canvas, Sprites, TiledLayers — pixel-perfect - Sound & music — WAV, MP3, MIDI playback and ToneControl - Wide compatibility — Nokia, Siemens, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and other vendor extensions supported Dust off the classics. Whether it's a racing game from a Nokia, a 3D action title, or that one puzzle you could never put down — JarBox runs it. Got an old favorite in mind? Load it up and play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: JarBox at 100% against Provenance App's 46%. JarBox also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Provenance App's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99) and ratings volume (751 vs 1). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Provenance App is free to download; JarBox costs $0.99 up front. Provenance App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. JarBox asks for nothing beyond the download.
Provenance App holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Provenance App has 751 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Provenance App's written reviews are positive against 100% of JarBox's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Provenance App ships an update every 3 weeks, JarBox every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Provenance App | JarBox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.3 (751 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 45.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 751 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2.4 GB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joseph Mattiello | Aleksandr Goremykin |
Customer experience
Provenance App
JarBox
Bugs and requests
Provenance App
Reported bugs
4 issues- 3DS games crashing
- Dreamcast/PS2 ROMs not working
- Screen shrinking when switching orientation
- Inability to load local game files
Requested features
4 requests- Controller support
- Gyroscope/motion controls
- Improved 3DS emulation
- GameCube/Wii emulation
JarBox
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Provenance App
- Provenance Plus$3.991 Month
- Provenance Plus$39.991 Year
- Provenance Plus$99.99
JarBox
No in-app purchases
