# Magic Life Counter — user reviews > 307 indexed App Store user reviews of Magic Life Counter by Ajfek Software, rated 4.10/5 from 46 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-life-counter/id389762204/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-life-counter/id389762204.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 30 · 4★ 6 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 6 ## What do users think of Magic Life Counter? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Best app with most features - 👍 Simple and intuitive design - 👍 Customizable counters and tokens - 👍 Handles multi-player games well - 👍 Regularly updated with new features **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and bugs - 🔋 High battery consumption - 💰 Expensive premium upgrade - 🔍 Intrusive ads in free version **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes on startup - Scrolling issues with many players - Dark mode toggle not working as expected - Ads reappearing after premium upgrade **Most requested features** - Add more player support (beyond 4) - Implement game history tracking - Improve UI customization options - Optimize battery usage ## Newest reviews (17 of 307) ### 2/5 — Non più supportata *2022-10-27, version 2.20* Era la mia app preferita, ma ora non è più aggiornata e supportata e la UI non funziona bene sui nuovi dispositivi. ### 2/5 — Great app! Several bugs. *2022-04-04, version 2.20* This is a great app, super useful and easy to use. Any feature I want in a life counter app this one has. I use this to track my Parties HP in Dungeons and Dragons, and has been the best way to track every bodies HP including the monsters I am running. This review is only 2 stars because I bought the full version for $10. For that price it shouldn’t have any of the bugs I am experiencing. First off, it’s always in Dark Mode. When I close the app and open it again it goes to Light Mode for a minute, then right back to Dark. Even if Dark Mode isn’t turned on. This isn’t a constant thing either, sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn’t. Second, whenever I open a saved Game Profile, it doesn’t show the Game Profile I clicked on. It shows the previous one until I close the app and open it again. Then the Game Profile I wanted to open will show up. Third, sometimes the numbers and icons on the app will be super small for no reason. Again I have to close and open the app to fix it. Fourth, it won’t scroll right away. If I give it a minute or close/open the app it fixes it. All these issues happen if I open the app by itself, or if I am using the app split screen on my iPad. Lastly I have all these issues on my phone as well. None of these issues make the app crash, but if you’re gonna charge $10 for the full version, it shouldn’t be having these problems. Developers please fix this, thank you. ### 3/5 — Best for tracking ANY kinds of counters *2020-07-26, version 2.19* Still the most full-featured app of its kind, with features few if any others have, like tracking Commander damage properly per-commander, and tracking of essentially any arbitrary counter or token. Its UX is still not the most intuitive though, like configuring and managing game profiles and named players. During gameplay the design works fairly well. The “Hide bars on swipe” option is broken for me—it seems impossible to bring toolbars back after swiping them away, except to force-quit the app which loses the current game history. I would raise my rating if this is fixed, because it is potentially a nice feature for reducing interface clutter when sharing control of one device during play. It would also be nice to have more pleasing visualization for dice rolls, that some alternative apps do better. ### 3/5 — Battery-eating spyware *2019-10-03, version 2.19* I used this app for a few years, paid to remove ads, and found it very handy. The only drawback was that it used insane amounts of battery power when running. After a recent iOS upgrade I noticed excessive battery drainage, even with no apps running, so I started poking around. While testing some things I opened this app and found, deep in the settings menu, "Opt-in to Ad Tracking." It was on by default. I turned it off, quit and restarted the app, and checked that setting again. It had turned itself back on. I deleted this app, and suddenly my battery is lasting much longer than it has in years. So this is a great, full-featured M:tG life counter, but it also sells your data and guzzles your battery. I consider that a bad trade. ### 4/5 — Neat *2019-07-15, version 2.19* Would be AMAZING for a nerf war.. if I had any friends ### 5/5 — Easy, flexible app *2019-01-24, version 2.18* This app does everything you need. You can have as many players as you want in a multiplayer game, all by name. It also tracks commander damage. If you need it to, it will keep track of counters, tokens and emblems. And it keeps a transcript, which is great when there’s a life total dispute. Whenever I use this app — which is to say, always — my opponent asks which app this is, because they are as impressed with it as I am. ### 4/5 — Very nice *2019-01-24, version 2.18* It’s really nice that you can have so many peoples lives on just one app. It’s also handy that all the tokens are right there so you don’t have to go to a different app or have to go digging through your stuff to find counters. I only wish there wasn’t as much ads. If you don’t mind that then this is the app for you! ### 5/5 — Great App *2019-01-24, version 2.18* Really like this app, works well, all the right features and has regular updates. Highly recommended. ### 5/5 — Best MTG Life Counter app *2019-01-24, version 2.18* This app has the most features and functionality that I’ve encountered -pun intended. It has so many counters/tokens/planeswalker features and there may be some you might not ever even need but will be glad it’s there when you eventually need it! It’s very worth paying for the one-time ad-free, however. ### 5/5 — Best Counter App *2019-01-24, version 2.18* I’ve used a lot of these kinds of apps. This one is just perfect. Simple and basic but has some advanced features. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2019-01-24, version 2.18* Mostly simple and intuitive, provides a great amount of flexibility. Without question the best life counter app I’ve used. ### 5/5 — Brilliant *2019-01-24, version 2.18* I have been using this app for a while now and honestly it is just perfect. It is easy to use and quick to setup. Really thankful as dice can get annoying. Thanks ### 4/5 — Awesome Magic the Gathering counter *2018-10-06, version 2.16* This is the best MtG life (and other) counter. I would love to see standard mana counters. Keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2018-10-04, version 2.16* This is a great app that has been getting better and better with each update. Great for board game use as well! ### 4/5 — Great app! *2018-08-13, version 2.16* It has everything I could ever want! There is a problem with scrolling when I create too many players, ca someone fix that? Then this app would be perfect! ### 5/5 — Great *2018-07-17, version 2.16* Awesome app: easy and simple!!! ### 5/5 — Good app my dude *2018-01-12, version 2.16* Keep on keeping on 👍 ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Einfach nur schlecht *2020-02-04, version 2.19* Werbung sein Vater ### 1/5 — Doesnt work on iPhone X *2017-12-30, version 2.15* App crashes. Doesn’t work. ### 1/5 — App constantly crashing *2017-12-30, version 2.15* The app is constantly crash on my 8 plus. I can’t use it. ### 1/5 — Don’t download!!Super glitchy won’t open at all *2017-12-28, version 2.15* Been trying to use this app for over a month. Paid for the full premium and it will never open. Worst app ever! I wish I could get my money back! ### 1/5 — Ads galore *2017-12-10, version 2.15* Ads dominate the app. There’s a row on the bottom that cycles, a full screen commercial plays before you can reset the score for a new game, an ad froze the screen up so I couldn’t start a new game until closing the app and reopening it, and finally, the control bar at the bottom disappeared so I couldn’t start a new game. They’re more concerned with ad revenue than with a basic score keeping being able to keep score! ### 1/5 — Don't purchase ads ons *2017-11-30, version 2.15* Was fine until today. Purchased the no ad thing and now it crashes every two seconds ### 1/5 — Crashing *2017-11-30, version 2.15* Worked well for the first week, now it’s crashing. Please update.! ### 1/5 — Don't know what the issue was... *2017-07-18, version 2.13.1* Had a 6 person commander game going, was an hour in, a full screen ad popped up and when it was over our life totals were reset. ### 1/5 — Just crashes instantly *2017-06-15, version 2.13.1* Used to be my favorite. Last year there was an "update" that just makes the app crash instantly upon opening. No update has fixed this since. Only way to contact the author seems to be within the app... which won't open... Maybe the author will see this review and fix it? ### 1/5 — Ads Automatically Open *2017-03-08, version 2.12* I don't know if they change their ad provider, but it keeps automatically opening the ad like I clicked on it. That's very unsafe and annoying. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best App *2022-05-07, version 2.20* There's no app with this amount of features. There's no ads anymore, and it lets you customize literally everything you can think of, like time, who the first player will be, starting life total; energy, poison, and planeswalker counters, commander damage. Everything you could ever need. And that's the free version. I recommend the premium version so you can support the creator of this app. ### 5/5 — Best one by far *2020-07-05, version 2.19* This one works great, the design is super simple and I get distracted by colours so I prefer that you only really need to name the players to recognize who’s life and other things there are. Easy to use too ### 5/5 — Лучше некуда *2020-03-28, version 2.19* Приложение - находка. Настраиваемый вид, история. ### 5/5 — 6 stars! *2019-06-08, version 2.19* I’ve had them all and none compare to this life counter ap. Excellent work! ### 5/5 — Best app for life and other counters *2019-05-18, version 2.19* Clean, configurable, single player life, and big numbers. ### 5/5 — Perfect *2019-05-18, version 2.19* I can’t think of a single thing that could be done to improve this app (apart from having the Planechase artwork, but I guess this would be a copyright issue). Updated for new expansions regularly. Don’t use anything else. ### 5/5 — Does what it says *2019-02-07, version 2.13* Biggest problem of apps is they try and be every item in the pizza place at once. But that ends up looking like mush. This is your plain pepperoni pizza: Does what it says, does it well, and makes you happy. 10/10 review ### 5/5 — Love this app *2019-02-02, version 2.18* Best one I’ve found ### 5/5 — good app *2019-01-26, version 2.18* the app works excellently and as intended ### 5/5 — Cool app *2019-01-25, version 2.18* It’s a good app it has some ads but if you turn of your WiFi connection then it has no ads over all this app is great --- *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 2026-08-31.*