# Chrono-Tithe: Turn Timer — Life & turn timer for MTG pods > Life & turn timer for MTG pods (iPhone/iPad app by NICHOLAS SALVATORE PUYA.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chrono-tithe-turn-timer/id6778462956 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [NICHOLAS SALVATORE PUYA](https://appshunter.io/developer/1892821322) - Category: Utilities, Games, Board - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.6 · 21 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-07 - Data updated: 2026-08-18 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chrono-tithe-turn-timer/id6778462956/reviews.md ## What is Chrono? We have all been trapped in that pod. The board is a clogged mess, someone has been staring at their hand for ten minutes trying to sequence a cantrip, your cold brew is empty, and you are aging in real time. Enter Chrono-Tithe. Chrono-Tithe is not just a sleek life counter. It is an automated tax collector for slow play. Instead of a passive chess clock everyone ignores, it enforces an escalating “Tithe Tax.” Overstay your welcome in the think tank and your life total starts draining automatically. It is the perfect way to keep the table moving, or to quietly pressure the pod while you assemble your lock behind a wall of artifacts. CORE FEATURES (always free) THE TITHE ENGINE: An escalating turn timer that ramps through four tiers, from Standard to Accelerated to Punishing to Lethal. Choose the turn the tax starts to tighten and watch it change the way your pod plays. BLIND-TAP LIFE TRACKING: Zero-friction split cards. Tap the right side of a player’s color block to gain life, tap the left to lose it. Press and hold to swing by 5 at a time. You never have to take your eyes off the board. FULL COMMANDER TRACKING: Poison, energy, experience, +1/+1, commander tax, and per-source commander damage, with 21 from a single commander tracked and flagged automatically. Monarch and the Initiative too. BUILT FOR THE TABLE: 2 to 6 players, format presets for Commander, 1v1, Two-Headed Giant, and Brawl, a pre-game lobby to set seating and decide who goes first, plus a dice roller, coin flip, and random-player picker. PLAY TOGETHER, ON EVERY PHONE: Connect the whole pod over local Wi-Fi or Bluetooth and everyone plays on their own screen, in sync. Tap your own life, pass your own turn, track your own commander damage, and watch it land on every device instantly. No internet, no accounts, no server. Joining a pod is always free. POST-GAME BREAKDOWN: Average turn length for every pilot and a golden Efficiency Star for the fastest player at the table. Hit Replay Pod to run it back with the same roster in one tap. MINIMALIST AND TACTILE: Deep true blacks, fluid gestures, and subtle haptics, designed to preserve battery and reduce visual fatigue during long matches. Scales cleanly from iPhone to a 12.9-inch iPad, and the screen stays awake during play. CHRONO-TITHE PRO (optional, one-time) The full game is free forever, with every life total, counter, timer, and tool included. A single one-time unlock (no subscription) adds: HOST MULTIPLAYER: Host a synced pod so the whole table plays on their own phones. Joining a pod is always free; hosting one is Pro. THEMES AND ACCENTS: Ten background themes and a full neon accent palette. CLOCK MODES: Alternate ways for the clock to bite. Three are live: Sudden Death (at the Lethal tier, overtime eliminates you outright), Time Bank (unused seconds roll into your next turn), and Chess Clock (one game-long budget per player). Team Clock is on the way, included free. TIMER-ONLY MODE: Switch the Tithe off to time turns with no life loss. COMMANDER ART AND SEAT COLORS: Set any commander’s art as a seat’s background and give each seat its own color. MATCH HISTORY: Every pod saved and synced to your own iCloud, so it survives a reinstall or a new phone with no login. All future Pro features included, free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your roster, settings, and history live on your device and in your own iCloud, never on our servers. Multiplayer is a direct device-to-device connection over your local network, not through any server of ours. Chrono-Tithe collects zero data about you. Set your pod. Start the clock. Pay the tithe. Chrono-Tithe is an unofficial fan-made utility. It is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or approved by Wizards of the Coast LLC. Magic: The Gathering and Commander are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Chrono-Tithe Pro | $4.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-08-11 You asked for a clock with no consequences. We heard you. THE STOPWATCH: a new clock mode, straight from a player review. Every player's clock simply counts up, and each turn resumes right where your last one left off, so the whole table can see everyone's time all game long. No limit, no overtime, no Tithe. Just the honest numbers. TOTAL TIME PLAYED: the results screen now shows exactly how much time every player spent on their turns, in every timed mode. It's on the share card and in Match History too, so the receipts are permanent. Also in this update: One unified seat editor: tap a name or swipe up on a card, same menu everywhere Smoother, drift-free scrolling on the setup and lobby screens Post-game chart numbers stay readable even after absurd life-gain turns Spot something you want next? Leave a review. The Stopwatch exists because someone did. ### 1.3.1 — 2026-07-22 1.3.1 Fixed horizontal drift on the Time Rules screen. The Ready screen no longer scrolls when everything fits. One unified seat menu: all counters (+1/+1, tax, custom, The Ring), status effects, and concede/revive now live inside the card, no more separate stat editor. Minor chart polish. ### 1.3 — 2026-07-18 You asked, we built it. This update keeps the pod moving and makes the whole app feel great in the hand. RESPONSE TIMER Pause for someone's counterspell or a judge call and a visible timer now counts up, so a long response is out in the open instead of invisible and free. No penalty, just awareness. LATE GAME THAT BREATHES Turn clocks can now scale up as the game runs long, so combo and big-board turns get real time before the Tithe bites. A new in-setup screen shows exactly how the Tithe works at your settings. TABLE TOOLS, LEVELED UP The dice, coin flip, and random-player picker now have real animations: a tumbling polyhedral die, a flipping coin, and a spinning wheel with everyone's names. The random-player picker also spreads fairly across the table. CLEANER ACTIVITY FEED Rapid life changes now combine into one total instead of a wall of plus-ones. A FRESH COAT OF PAINT The setup menu and results screen got a full visual polish, and the post-game chart now scales to any life total, no matter how much lifegain your deck pulls off. Plus VoiceOver support for the new controls, and a pile of fixes. Set your pod. Start the clock. Pay the tithe. ### 1.2 — 2026-07-16 • Commander art and seat colors are now free for everyone, with artist credits via Scryfall. • Your art and colors stay with your name across games. • Redesigned game board with a cleaner card layout and corners that follow the curve of your screen. • Swipe up on any card to open its new quick menu: counters, effects, and colors, all facing your seat. • Track poison, energy, XP, and commander damage from each opponent without leaving your card. • Set commander art right from the swipe menu with the built in Scryfall search. • Swiping never changes life anymore. Tap for 1, hold for 5, done. • End Turn now sits on both sides of the table so nobody reaches across. • A slimmer, quieter turn clock that stays out of the way, and steps aside while you edit. • Tap the clock for a full screen table menu. • Tap or swipe up on a player's name to open their full seat editor, no more ... button. • Redesigned setup with collapsible sections. • Mid game edits are saved instantly. • The end game chart now scales to any life total, big lifegain decks included. ### 1.1 — 2026-07-14 NEW FORMATS • Standard (20 life) and 1v1 Brawl (25 life) — proper 60-card duels. • Duel formats lock to 2 players, and commander only counters (commander damage, tax) stay out of the way in 20-life games. SEE HOW IT WENT • New post-game graph: every player's life over the course of the game in their color — poison counters, eliminations, and final totals labeled right on the chart. It's on the share card too. REMATCH, SETTLED FAIRLY • Replay now asks who goes first in every format: roll a d20 each (ties re-roll), pick a player, or keep the same order. SMOOTHER, SMARTER GAMES • 10 poison counters now eliminates a player — and the game ends itself when only one player is standing. • Hold − / + to change life 5 at a time. • A player dying and a game ending now have their own sounds. • Healing a player above 0 life revives them. • Results appear instantly, cleaner cards, smoother rotation, better 5–6 player board layout. FIXES • Two-Headed Giant no longer overwrites your saved player names. • Replay respects your first-player choice. • Clear History now asks before wiping (it syncs to iCloud!). • Commander art search handles partner names and being offline. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-18.*