CounterSpell: MTG EDH Tracker

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About this app

CounterSpell 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.

CounterSpell is an open source project that aims to give any Magic: The Gathering player the best possible life tracking app, with a special focus on EDH.

It features:
- Life, Commander Damage, Commander Casts, Poison Counters, Experience Counters, Storm Count, Total Man Tracker, City's Blessing, Monarch, and other counters to keep track of anything you could possibly need.

- Scroll Interaction: You can swipe over a player's name to increment or decrement their life or any other counter.

- Great battery life: the app activity is streamlined and consists in the bare minimum computational effort to make it work. It does just what you ask it to do, no background stuff (I'd be too lazy to code such things anyway!), so you can keep your phone on all night and play commander! (obviously, your screen being on is what drains your battery the most, so lower your brightness or use the dark theme if your battery is already running low).

- High Precision: You can see how much damage you're dealing while you swipe, along with the resulting life that the current amount of damage would produce and when you're sure about what you're doing, simply release the swipe for a moment to make CounterSpell confirm the edit.

- Multiple Players Damage: You can select any number of players before starting to scroll to modify their life totals, so your Pestilence friend won't drive you insane anymore.

- Commander Damage: You can easily keep track of the damage made by any player's commander to any other player (or even himself, if when needed). You can also set lifelink and infect for a specific commander to automatically handle implicit the results of commander damage.

- Complete, accurate and easy-to-read History: You can see precisely when any of the edits were made, what type of damage and how much damage was dealt.

- Ability to undo any mistake: If the undo and redo button are not enough, you can delete a single interaction made any time in the past without affecting any subsequent action.

- Playgroup management: CounterSpell saves the names of your friends, so you can quickly change playgroup at any time.

- Partner Commander Damage: You can easily split a player's commander in two partners and keep track of his two commanders damages and casts separately.

- Manual interaction: You can manually set a given number of life for a player, in that remote case you need to gain exactly 273 life and you don't want to scroll twenty times to achieve that.

Ratings and reviews

Amazing app with a lot of potential, I have already seen a lot of improvement in recent updates and I really think that this could be the end all be all for life counters. I do think that it would be dope to be able to change the font of that names or at least the font size/ colors because people in my play group have complained that it's hard to read.

Love this app. Great design, very easy to use, and wonderful contextual donation options. I think the only thing that i can think of that it really makes me still want is being able to have a game shared p2p/over a network so that you could, for example, be playing paper magic over a webcam (especially right now) or have each person with their own app and have them all sync up and be reviewable by any player at any time. Alongside this would be something to be able to go into "single player" management mode where you only see yours face up, but still having it sync with everyone else's "game". Thanks a ton for this!

Just installed it and tried setting up a mock game so I could start figuring out how it works before bringing it to my playgroup. I've been using Lifelinker but it's limited (can't track partner commanders, etc.). This, I believe, is everything I'm looking for - if I can just figure it out! Wow, I can't find anything that says "do this or click here". I've been figuring it out slowly but a good 5 minute youtube video would go a million miles. Once I learn how to USE the app I will gladly support financially - but without some way to teach me I'm lost for now....

What’s new

Android 13 compatibility fix