Last updated on February 6th, 2026 at 05:00 am
Life Total – Counter for MtG – Utilities Game Review
Life Total – Counter for MtG is a Utilities/Card/Board game from talisman.games, first launched in 18th March 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 6,402+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Life Total – Counter for MtG Stand Out
Track your life when playing Magic: The Gathering with this FREE little app. Set your phone on the table between you and your opponent and simply start playing. We've worked hard to provide as clean and streamlined an experience as possible.
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Two-way screen setup, ideal for playing at tables.
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Add or subtract Life with a tap, or hold down to auto-tap.
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Layouts for 1-6 players.
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Dice roll feature.
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Customizable backgrounds.
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Optional Poison counters, and other generic counter types.
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Change default starting life to fit various game modes.
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Collapsible center bar that hides global features when they aren't needed.
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Game over detection for quick access to the Reset button.
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Magic Life Total is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
We want to know what YOU want out of your MtG life counter. Please send us feedback on our website!
This Utilities game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Life Total – Counter for MtG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd February 2026
Recent improvements include:
- Maintenance update for privacy, bug fixes, and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Life Total – Counter for MtG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Life Total – Counter for MtG on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Helpful mtg playing companion app for keeping track of life.
Simple rule for MTG: dont leave home without this app.
This was really useful for a game of mtg we just played. We dont have any dice so this really beats keeping track of life in our head.
We LOVE MTG!!!W app, saved us a lot of time.
Its a solid up for whatever you wanna do it during magic.
We love this app. There isnt anything we could recommend that would make this app better! Thank you very much.
The app for keeping track of life total and everything along with that works very well, however the problem is ads. They are either so unoptimized or so predatory that they will heat your phone up like its mining Bitcoin. In a 1 hour game our phone went from 100% to 15% with only this app running. If they fix this issue it would be an easy 5 star but sadly this issue is due to either incompetence or malevolence.
This is our go to App for MTG. We also use this app for other card games like Card Wars and Naruto CCG. Its really easy to use and we love the color editing for choosing which ones you like. We wish there was a duel option for colors for example Simic, Gruul, Dimir etc. Thats just an add on. We love the simplicity and that it is also easy to use. Highly recommend to new or experienced players.
We have only used it a little, but its really good, dont like the ads obviously, but literally what doesnt have ads nowadays. Pretty good overall and has nice features.
Can't really improve upon it other than maybe add some additional colors (we realize it's for the color pie but it would be nice to have like purple or something).
When the app had sound it felt more lively and more fun but now its just a blank slate with no life in it. If you could have a slide button on it that would turn on or off the sounds that would be amazing. Please consider this.
Its all right could have better animation.
Very good at counting down from 40 or 20.
Works amazing and is very cool and sleek.
Very useable and easy to understand. We love the simplicity.
Works very very well and we like the app.
This is a great app. But we find it frustrating that a simple layout option isnt available. Landscape when playing two player. Come on. Please, almost all other apps have this. Your app would be a 5 star for us if you added this. Many we play with also agree. Can you update with this.
The layout is nice and easy to use. Works perfect.
The ads are intrusive and some popup in a browser, hiding the score midgame. Upside is its only $4 to remove. Knocked it a star for that.
We like the app but it keeps automatically opening an ad it displays and going to safari in a new window on a website we dont know.
This app is amazing for keeping track of MTG health and poison counters and whatnot, but we think it would be better if you could see all the life and counters that you have activated at once, not just one at a time.
We play magic a lot especially on the go and sometimes we dont have a d20 to play with so this app makes the perfect substitute, and even when Im not playing on the go and when Im in our own home we still use the app. Im really happy this app exists an the ones that go made this did a great job.
Love this appsuper easy to navigate and use, great colors too! We dont know how we managed to play w/o this app (okay, that was an exaggeration, but you get our point)! 5/5.
App works fine, but now occasionally does redirects to scanning your system for viruses scam website on iPad embarrassing for apple and for this app.
The app is great! The only thing our friends complained about is that there werent enough colors. But It does what it is made to do.
Cant stop play music at the same time, as the tiny ad on the bottom interrupts music playing. Please fix.
Ads switch our phone over to the Internet during a game. One said scanning your device. Please fix your advertisers. Theyre certainly not trustworthy with ads like that, especially when its an ad that takes you to the internet without clicking anything.
Buddies and we used to use this for ages. Had issues a while back with his antivirus catching that the app was opening adult links on his phone. Now we get safari pop ups for a Norton antivirus scam. Shame.
This needs to be fixed, you guys have advertisements that open up pop up links when they come on screen into malicious links.
Went down to the flea market the other day seen this weird attractive thing just laying there without a smug starch or anything on it we were impressed ask the dude who was selling it how much he said for you $100 so we bought a woody toy and that how we got a woody.
This chick beats us all the time!! But the life counter works great! Wish our deck worked that well.
Super your soul nothing more to say easy resourceful actually, just everything we need when Im playing a game of magic awesome.
It needs to have counters for commanders, monarch, poison, etc.
Doesnt keep track of commander damage.
Does everything you need and no intrusive ads.
Ive used many life counter apps over the years, we keep coming back to this one. Just simple life counter with easy clean features. Well done gents.
Helpful mtg playing companion app for keeping track of life.
We like this app a lot. We wish it kept track of commander damage and plains walker stuff but we have no complaints.
It would be nice if you could select multiple colors for a single deck, but a great app.
Our son and we enjoy using your app. It makes the game of magic even more enjoyable. Thank you so much.
We are a starving among us.after we downloaded this amazing rpg MTGesus came down and gave us 2 robux.
Needs the ability to use counter for creature.
Brand new iPhone, fully charged. Our battery was almost dead after just 2 rounds with this. Id probably bet that it would die faster than it could charge if we left this app open. Not good for mtg since youre probably playing more than one game.
One simple reason for 4 stars. Only need to add commander damage counter in a sleep innovative way.
Our girlfriend and we are just getting into MTG and this has been a life saver.
This app is amazing for casual play with your friends and has lots of different options for customization.
Its awesome when you cant find your D20s or you really just dont want to grab them off the shelf.
We feel like having multi color combined would be a good option.
It works well and Ive never had an issue.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.1.38
- Size: 92.00 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: talisman.games
Last updated: 2nd February 2026 | Genre: Utilities, Card | Developer: talisman.games