Comparison

Provenance App vs drift cast

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Multi-console emulation
  • Supports Atari systems
  • Supports Nintendo systems
  • Supports Sega systems
  • Supports Sony PlayStation
  • Supports arcade and console games
Features
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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/

About

drift cast

This app offers a peaceful listening experience for podcasts and your own audiobooks. It allows for customizable playback speeds, offline downloads, and smart chapter skipping. Enjoy a calm reader for blogs and newsletters alongside your audio content.

Highlights
  • Podcast directory and RSS feed import
  • Customizable playback speed (0.5x to 4x)
  • Offline episode downloads
  • Sleep timer
  • Audiobook import (DRM-free)
  • Voice equalizer and leveling
  • Chapter skipping and sponsor skipping
  • Blog and newsletter reader
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drift is a quiet player for podcasts and the audiobooks you own. It keeps your place, sounds good at any speed, and never asks for an account. Listen • Find shows in the podcast directory, or bring your own RSS feeds and OPML. • Up next plays in your order. Each show can send new episodes to Up Next, to New from your shows, or nowhere. • Download episodes for offline listening, or let drift fetch Up Next on Wi-Fi. • Speed from 0.5× to 4× with sliders or knobs, per show, with fine tuning. • Sleep timer: minutes, the end of an episode, or the end of a chapter. • drift checks your shows when you open it, and you can pull to check any time. Audiobooks you own • Import DRM-free M4B, M4A or MP3 files from Files. A book split across many files becomes one book with one timeline. • Chapters, per-book speed, and your place kept across restarts. • Smart rewind after a break, never back into the previous chapter. drift can't open copy-protected books. Sound • An equalizer made for voices, with presets for clarity, the car, less boom and less hiss. • Level voices evens out quiet guests and loud laughs. • Give a show or a book its own sound. Find your way • Publisher chapters, and skip the ones you choose. Per show, you can also skip chapters the publisher marked as sponsors, or a show's outro. • Read along with transcripts from the publisher, or made on your iPhone. • Moments and snips: mark a spot or save the last 30 seconds, add a note, and export them as Markdown. Read • Follow blogs and newsletters next to your shows, in a calm reader with highlights and notes. Around your iPhone • Widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen. • Say "resume drift" to Siri, or use it in Shortcuts. • Light, dark, or follow your iPhone. • Listening stats, with podcasts and audiobooks kept apart. Yours to keep • No account needed. Sign in with Apple, Google or email only if you want to. • Your library stays on your iPhone. Export a backup or OPML any time, free. • No tracking and no analytics. drift adds no ads; publishers may include their own.

Screenshots

Provenance App4 screens
drift cast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: drift cast at 5.0 against Provenance App's 3.3. drift cast also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Provenance App's advantage is ratings volume (755 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Provenance App sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. drift cast asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

drift cast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Provenance App has 755 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Provenance App ships an update every 3 weeks, drift cast weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Provenance App versus drift cast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProvenance Appdrift cast
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (755 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings755 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2.4 GB29 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperJoseph MattielloMichael Helsel

Customer experience

Provenance App

All ratings614 ratings
Positive52.8%
Neutral11.7%
Negative35.5%
Written reviews534 reviews
Positive45.9%
Neutral13.7%
Negative40.4%

drift cast

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

drift cast

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Provenance App

Subscriptions2
  • Provenance Plus$3.991 Month
  • Provenance Plus$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Provenance Plus$99.99
None

drift cast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Provenance App free?
Provenance App is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is drift cast free?
drift cast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Provenance App or drift cast?
drift cast is rated higher. Provenance App averages 3.3 out of 5 from 755 ratings, while drift cast averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Provenance App or drift cast have ads?
Neither Provenance App nor drift cast shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Provenance App or drift cast?
Provenance App ships an update every 3 weeks, and drift cast weekly. Most recently, Provenance App was updated on November 7, 2026 and drift cast on October 31, 2026.

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