# Life Total - Counter for MtG — user reviews > 296 indexed App Store user reviews of Life Total by talisman.games, rated 4.70/5 from 7,198 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-total-counter-for-mtg/id827735026/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-total-counter-for-mtg/id827735026.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 6,181 · 4★ 483 · 3★ 156 · 2★ 64 · 1★ 314 ## What do users think of Life Total? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Simple and intuitive - 🎨 Customizable colors - 🎲 Dice roll feature - 💯 Works great for 1v1 games - 🔢 Supports different life totals **Cons** - 🔋 Battery draining issues - 🔍 Intrusive/malicious ads - 🐛 Bugs causing app crashes - 🔓 Security/privacy concerns - 🚫 Automatic browser redirects **Commonly reported bugs** - App not loading past splash screen - Randomly opening browser tabs - Incorrect life total changes - Music playback issues **Most requested features** - Support for more than 2 players - Commander damage tracking - Planeswalker loyalty counters - Life total history/logging - Landscape mode for 2-player ## Newest reviews (13 of 296) ### 4/5 — Review *2026-08-10, version 3.1.44* Solid app, just wish you could pick more color options then mono ### 4/5 — Good App, Bad Ads *2026-08-07, version 3.1.44* Smooth experience marred by very annoying pop-up ads ### 4/5 — Life total review *2026-07-15, version 3.1.44* This is a great app, it has really helped me, but it is missing many counters. I believe that doing that allowing you to add life in tens, this would be an app with hundreds of five star ratings. ### 2/5 — Pop up adds *2026-07-09, version 3.1.44* The app used to be great. Now it has pop up adds that are loud and just loop until you tap a microscopic x just for another add to pop up 5 minutes later. ### 3/5 — Works but missing main feature *2026-07-05, version 3.1.44* App works great for counting main life however for commander it’s missing the commander damage counter. Other apps have the ability to have 40 health then the 20 under it but this app does not. Have to knock it hard for missing something needed and so simple to add to the app. ### 3/5 — No commander counters *2026-05-24* The app is good, but there’s no option to track commander damage, which makes it harder to keep control during multiplayer games. ### 4/5 — I liked it better when it had sound *2026-05-01* When the app had sound it felt more lively and more fun but now it’s just a blank slate with no life in it. If you could have a slide button on it that would turn on or off the sounds that would be amazing. Please consider this. ### 4/5 — Des pubs *2026-02-23* Trop de pubs ### 3/5 — Mostly fine but malicious ads *2026-02-20, version 3.1.38* It's simple and easy to use, and IS my preferred life total app, but the ads I'm getting that open chrome, open a webpage, AND start downloading something without permission are going to make me switch appa ### 3/5 — Cool *2026-02-15, version 3.1.38* Not bad ### 4/5 — I like it *2025-12-31, version 3.1.36* I have only used it a little, but it’s really good, don’t like the ads obviously, but literally what doesn’t have ads nowadays. Pretty good overall and has nice features. ### 1/5 — This app opens safari on its own to a sketchy website *2025-12-06, version 3.1.31* This app will open my safari, redirect me to a spam website, and try and start a download. Beware. ### 1/5 — Ads took me to a malware site *2025-10-02, version 3.1.31* Accidentally clicked an ad when I wanted to close it. Took me to some fake McAfee site that tried to download some random file ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Was good, ruined by ads *2026-06-03, version 3.1.41* It used to only have unobtrusive banner ads on the bottom of the screen, which was great, but recently it’s been having pop up full screen ads. These prevent you from interacting with the life totals while open so they are super annoying. Also I’ve gotten a few that open in my browser and try to download an app, which is super sketchy. Give this one a skip. ### 1/5 — Used to be good *2026-05-17, version 3.1.40* Tired of all the ads making me go to a website, awful update. ### 1/5 — Good app for tracking except for scammy ads *2026-05-10, version 3.1.40* While playing, it will randomly open SHEIN ads, temu ads, scam popups etc. Great app but definitely uninstalling after that happened. ### 1/5 — Review *2026-05-02, version 3.1.40* It dose what is says it dose I gave it a one because it keep asking me to ### 1/5 — “Youve been hacked popup ads” *2026-04-28, version 3.1.40* A fully offline app that is nothing more than a simple two button counter really doesn’t need to have popup ads that have the fake you were hacked message ### 1/5 — To many adds *2026-04-25, version 3.1.40* Too many adds popping up ### 1/5 — Possibly a hack *2026-03-29, version 3.1.38* I thought the message saying I got hacked was just a common thing to just make you scared and you need to comply. However, I got a message from my Xfinity app that I got suspicious activity when I get the “you are hacked” message. I didn’t want to take the risk anymore. Don’t download it. ### 1/5 — Opens virus link by itself *2026-03-20, version 3.1.38* Noticed if I left it idle for a while it would open a link to a website that scams users this could wreck your phone or worse if clicking to change life total ### 1/5 — Adware *2026-02-27, version 3.1.38* I used this app for many years. It has recently started opening malicious websites probably through the ad at the bottom of the screen, without me touching the screen. One time my entire play group witnessed it. There are other apps out there without ads for free that won’t allow malicious attackers to mine bitcoin on your phone through neglect. ### 1/5 — Great for a while, then came the spam and hack attempts *2026-01-27, version 3.1.36* Used this app for years and recently noticed that it would start opening my browser and navigate to websites claiming my phone was hacked or had a virus, click to download, etc. Very aggressive and deceptive ads trying to get me to click on things. Reinstalled the app did not help. Moving on to another app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Easy *2026-08-10, version 3.1.44* The ads are unintrusive and it’s very easy to use ### 5/5 — Great app for mtg *2026-07-18* Love this app. This is the best life counter I’ve found for magic the gathering. You can change everyone’s starting life total on the fly. You can change the color of your life counter to represent the color of your deck. I like the roll feature because it makes it easier to decide who goes first in the turn order. I’ve been using this app for years so i paid to get rid of the adds for $5. The adds aren’t even that bad because its a small banner at the bottom of the screen. I’d recommend it to anyone ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-05-06, version 3.1.40* This app made my balls drop. ### 5/5 — Heat which there was more customizable options *2026-03-22, version 3.1.38* Good for being free ### 5/5 — Simple, jolie, RAS *2026-01-06* Appli parfaite, intuitive, utile, simple ### 5/5 — Easy and Simple *2026-01-05, version 3.1.36* This is my go to App for MTG. I also use this app for other card games like Card Wars and Naruto CCG. It’s really easy to use and I love the color editing for choosing which ones you like. I wish there was a duel option for colors for example Simic, Gruul, Dimir etc. that’s just an add on. I love the simplicity and that it is also easy to use. Highly recommend to new or experienced players. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2025-10-31, version 3.1.31* Can't really improve upon it other than maybe add some additional colors (I realize it's for the color pie but it would be nice to have like purple or something) ### 5/5 — Big dog status *2025-07-04, version 3.1.25* Very good at counting down from 40 or 20. ### 5/5 — Fire *2025-06-28, version 3.1.25* Works amazing and is very cool and sleek ### 5/5 — Good *2025-05-26, version 3.1.25* Very useable and easy to understand. I love the simplicity. --- *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 2026-09-03.*