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

My favorite mtg app It's my go to life tracker. I love how it stores my and my friends' commander icons to quickly pull out during games. It's wonderful. My only problem is that sometimes it's difficult to delete players or saved icons from the different profiles. Like, it feels like the delete button just doesn't work sometimes. Other than that, it intuitively tracks anything I could possibly need during a game. 10/10

Finally found the one and only companion app for MTG. You can track every type of damage, including commander damage from each player, as well as well sorts of other in game things that you often just use dice for or have to remember. Up to 6 players. Excellent options, no fluff, good UI, free & ad free. Can't fully describe how great this app is. I appreciate the dev!

Really nice that it lets you select backgrounds to match the commander being played, even including partner commanders with individual tracker for each and the commanders with "Choose a Background" like Lulu, Loyal Hollyphant has. Pay attention to the setting that tracks commander damage as regular damage too, confused me first time using the app.

What’s new

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