Lifetap Life Counter for MTG

Michael Bourkas

About this app

Lifetap is a clean, simple, and free life tracker for your games of Magic: The Gathering. It loads lightning fast, allows for massive 6 player games of EDH / Commander or Three-Headed Giant, and even supports Planechase & Archenemy.

Main features:
- Supports 2 to 6 players, AND includes a One-player mode that still tracks incoming commander damage and counters (Infect, Experience, etc)
- Player customization: set your player background to the art of one of Magic: The Gathering's more than 20,000 cards! Or two: partners (and backgrounds) are supported!
- Player profiles: each profile with a customized name is automatically saved along with their card art and/or color customization, letting you load your profile in a couple taps
- Planechase support: spice things up with a full suite of Planechase cards within the app
- Archenemy support: also allows for gameplay with the full set of Archenemy Schemes
- Tracks commander damage (partner commander damage included) in a unique, intuitive way!
- Also tracks Infect, Treasure tokens, Experience counters, Commander tax, Monarchy, Initiative, Energy, Day/Night, and City's Blessing
- Quickly reset games to starting life of 20, 25, 30, or 40. Optionally, let the app randomize seating for you to keep things interesting
- An optional turn timer to track how long players are taking. Includes optional countdown timer (MTGO-style) and turn time alerts
- A dice roller that can randomly pick a player, an opponent, and roll one of many dices - or flip a coin
- Mana and storm counters to help players going off keep track of floating mana and storm count
- Support for tablets
- Crash protection: unlike most life counters, game state is saved to memory, so crashes or phones rebooting won't affect the game!

More features are in the works, and if you have any specific feature requests, please email me!

Ratings and reviews

Has all the features I need for a commander life tracker with a compact but legible interface. Unfortunately there seems to be a bug(?) where tapping to add/subtract multiple players' life at the same time doesn't register the taps as separate locations, so if someone plays a "deal 1 to each opponent" effect and everyone goes to tick their life down, one person will end up at -3 instead of three people at -1. Thought it was a phone OS limitation, but other apps don't have this problem.

Absolutely the BEST app for tabletop MTG games. You get everything you need with this regardless of what format you're playing in, and you can track literally anything with it. All Planechase and Archenemy cards are high quality (though the way some PC cards work needs slight refinement), and each player slot is customizable. Mana/Storm trackers are flawless, and randomizing players/opponents for certain abilities works wonders. Cannot recommend this app enough. Near-perfect 10/10.

this is one of the best apps for life tracking. it's straight forward and simple to use. it's five out five for me. what would make it six out of five would be some minor things, like being able to track win/losses between profiles. or having scryfall integrated for rules or card lookup. these are not necessary at all which is why I'm still giving 5 stars. it's just an awesome app

What's new

We update Lifetap on a regular basis to keep making it better! This version includes several bug fixes. If ever you notice a bug or have suggestions, please email me at [e-mail]!