MTG Life Counter App

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 59 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R34] 5/5 · US Seems great and completely free with no ads?: Love all the features. There’s counters for everything. There’s even a little monarch token you can drag to whichever player has the special hat.
2. [R38] 5/5 · US Best FREE commander app: My group used carbon for years until a friend insisted we try lotus. It’s free and NO ADS 😲 huge A+. All the features it provides, for the price you cannot beat it!
3. [R39] 5/5 · US Feature Rich and Elegantly Designed: Probably the only app I’ve found for an MTG life counter that is both fully featured and visually appealing. I don’t understand why this app is free.
4. [R44] 5/5 · US Best life total app: Doesn’t get any better than this, absolutely no ads and the best layouts available.
5. [R4] 5/5 · US I have some suggestions, but still have to give it 5 stars: Honestly, a near perfect life counter. I’ve used other ones people have, but they don’t feel as polished as Lotus. Including the extra game modes is awesome, especially with how much the cards can cost and I have shame and don’t use proxies. I love being able to use my go to commander, Mathas fiend seeker, as my background without having
6. [R23] 5/5 · US Best Life App I’ve Found: I love that this app supports so many features such as plane chase and arch enemy. Tracking Commander damage is easy as pie, and I love the death quotes that pops up when a player lose this game. I’ve also use this app to track points for other games.
7. [R32] 5/5 · US The Only Counter You Need: one of the best and most intuitive counters for any MTG game style you are playing! My group loved to use the commander counter settings, load our backgrounds with the commanders we are using, even toggle to different game modes if we are waiting something crazy for our game. This app packs so much and is ready-to-go for old and new MTG players alike!! This app needs to
8. [R2] 5/5 · US Amazing!: It’s made playing MTG fun and cutesy! I love being able to choose what commander i’m playing and have them as my background image!
9. [R3] 5/5 · US Great!: I have been playing magic for about a year now, and this is the best life tracker app ever. If you can’t find something or you think something is wrong, look at the settings and you can probably make it happen. Love this app
10. [R15] 5/5 · US super funny: Background can be any picture you can ever like in your library
11. [R13] 5/5 · US Best life counter review out there: …and definitely the best design too!
12. [R18] 5/5 · US Really impressed: Downloaded the app and was immediately impressed by how thoughtfully the app is designed. It’s clean, functional, and a delight to use.
13. [R42] 5/5 · US Best mtg tabletop companion: Wow where to start, you can customize backgrounds to match your deck or play style. You can adjust the default settings for different game modes, commander damage is tracked and other tricky counters like poison as well. The best part is the ability to play all archenemy and planechase seemlessly within the app. How amazing, thanks for such a great app!
14. [R54] 5/5 · US Amazing Mtg utility: This has everything. The card lookup is 100% accurate. The life tracker can show you City’s Blessing and Monarch, and is really easy to use and it saves your name for the next time.
15. [R5] 3/5 · US New Bugs: Please update the app. It is great and very streamlined but there is a current issue with adding commander damage that doesn’t update until you change life totals manually.
16. [R6] 1/5 · US Bug makes this app nearly unusable…kinda: Recently it stopped working well. Whenever someone takes commander damage, the app doesn’t visually show the damage, until more damage or health is gained,lost. So what happens, player takes commander damage. Then we have to add 1 and subtract 1 of normal damage to get it to update. It’s such an inconvenient thing where I’m exploring another App. Reinstall
17. [R50] 3/5 · US Eh: This app wishes it was Life Tap. The fact that additional screens take weird swipes are irritating, not being able to actively see commander damage is inconvenient.
18. [R17] 4/5 · US Love it, iPad compatibility is wonky tho: On my phone everything works great, on my iPad, however I can not use the search for a card function to add pictures for commanders. I’m able to manually upload the pictures myself but it’s clunky and would love to see this fixed. Everything else is perfect though!
19. [R24] 1/5 · US Card search feature not working: I have been trying a million different ways and i cannot get the card search feature to work on my iPad. It works on my phone just fine but it won’t work on my iPad! Ugghhh!
20. [R36] 3/5 · US Doesn’t work offline: Fine if you have a good connection but for some reason it doesn’t start if you have no internet connection. The only parts of this app that should require connectivity are the card and art search.
21. [R46] 3/5 · US What am I missing?: Why is commanded damage combined? There needs to be a way to separate it for each player. What’s the point if it can’t do that?
22. [R51] 3/5 · US Feels incomplete: I usually use carbon for my life counter with my friends. As I was fiddling with the features as I often do to figure out what all it can do I found that there was no way to keep track of commander damage on the app be it a section of nameless counters with which to designate who’s commander that it is or other ways. Carbon does have this but the same can be said about how carbon
23. [R26] 3/5 · US Needs more layout option options: For all its settings, it’s missing the ability to adjust the layout so if you’re playing this on an iPhone that has a screen cut out, things don’t get cut off. It’s also annoying that the mana symbols are not correct nor are the colors.