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 & Bounty.

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 30,000 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
- Bounty mini-game: play with the 12 bounty cards from Outlaws of Thunder Junction, with escalating reward levels
- 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 stopwatch, countdown timer (MTGO-style), chess clock mode that tracks priority, 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
- Available in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Polish, Russian, and Greek
- Support for tablets
- Crash protection: unlike most life counters, game state is saved to memory, so crashes or 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

Excellent! Bar none, the best way to track health for multiple players in magic. Although it would be nice to have an option for all the counters to face the same way. I'm currently operating it solo, so when everybody takes 6 damage I have to undo missed taps since pluses and minuses are on opposite sides when there are 4 or more players. Also, I would like to suggest having a mode for yugioh players : D The app is so good I'm sure they would love to see this adapted for 8000, etc.

This has been my absolute favorite life tracker for magic. Download it and give it a look through, it'll be worth your time. Upticking the commander damage from the different players will auto reduce your life, there's a storm counter and a way to keep track of floating mana, you can enable planechase and archenemy. Love, love, love this app.

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

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]!