# MTG Life Counter App: Lotus — user reviews > 313 indexed App Store user reviews of MTG Life Counter App by Vanilla b.v., rated 4.60/5 from 9,499 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mtg-life-counter-app-lotus/id1498057193/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mtg-life-counter-app-lotus/id1498057193.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 8,138 · 4★ 504 · 3★ 214 · 2★ 117 · 1★ 526 ## What do users think of MTG Life Counter App? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Amazing app - 👍 Life changing - 🎨 Beautiful UI - 💯 Best life counter - 🔍 Helpful features (card search, rule book) - 🆓 Completely free, no ads **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🔍 Missing commander damage tracking - 🔧 UI changes made it less intuitive - 🔋 Drains battery - 📱 Incompatible with older devices **Commonly reported bugs** - Life totals reset when app crashes - Dynamic Island on iPhone 15 blocks UI - Double-face card lookup not working - Life total changes when swiping up to home screen **Most requested features** - Add commander damage tracking - Ability to save player profiles/presets - Option to increase/decrease font size - Landscape mode for 2-player view - Press and hold to add/decrease 10 points ## Newest reviews (16 of 313) ### 4/5 — Great app, but there's a qualm *2026-08-26, version 2.7.4* Lotus is a fantastically intuitive app with a help tab containing incredibly straightforward instructions, however: Why should the name need to be manually changed when the profile is saved? Why isn't the name saved with the profile? And no, I don't mean the name entered when saving a profile; I mean the name displayed on the screen. This would be a five star review if the display names saved with the profile. It's an unnecessary extra step when saving profiles is an option ### 5/5 — I LOVE this app it’s so modular! *2026-07-30, version 2.7.2* This is the most customizable app ever it’s so easy to use out of the gate but takes a second to learn the extra bits but once you due it’s so good at streamlining your experience so you can focus on the game! ### 5/5 — Perfect *2026-07-27, version 2.7.1* Tracks commander damage in a very intuitive way; UI is clean and easy to use. Actually just perfect. ### 4/5 — Great app *2026-07-21, version 2.7.1* I really like this app a lot, easy to use and for the most part customize. My only wish is you could either move your name to the top of the screen instead of having it underneath your menu button. Overall great app. ### 3/5 — Search bar issues *2026-07-20, version 2.7.1* Great app but the search bar recently started not showing. So I can’t see it when I am searching for a card. ### 3/5 — Great app but has a major bug *2026-07-19, version 2.7.1* Great app! Love the colourful backgrounds but if I try to search for a card to set that as the background on an iPod Mini 7th gen, I can’t bring the keyboard back down to view the search results which means you can only have coloured backgrounds instead of card backgrounds for the counter. Big feature missing due to this bug. Hope they fix it soon. ### 5/5 — Von Fans für Fans?! *2026-07-15* Die App ist perfekt! Highlight sind die Karten, die man als Hintergrund auswählen kann! **Developer response:** Von Fans für Fans, ja! Danke fürs nette Review! ### 5/5 — Flame the cat *2026-07-14, version 2.7.1* Flame was dancing while I played mtg! This was a really good experience! ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-07-13, version 2.7.1* This app is great. We use this regularly for our game nights. No obnoxious ads, great UX, works great, has a way to support the devs without being obnoxious (please toss them some support). This is the one you want. ### 5/5 — Love it *2026-07-12, version 2.7.1* Awesome app for anyone who enjoys MTG ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2026-07-09, version 2.7.1* It’s made playing MTG fun and cutesy! I love being able to choose what commander i’m playing and have them as my background image! ### 5/5 — Great! *2026-07-04, version 2.7.1* I have been playing magic for about a year now, and this is the best life tracker app ever. If you can’t find something or you think something is wrong, look at the settings and you can probably make it happen. Love this app ### 5/5 — I have some suggestions, but still have to give it 5 stars *2026-07-04* Honestly, a near perfect life counter. I’ve used other ones people have, but they don’t feel as polished as Lotus. Including the extra game modes is awesome, especially with how much the cards can cost and I have shame and don’t use proxies. I love being able to use my go to commander, Mathas fiend seeker, as my background without having to look it up myself via google images. And you get the most functional and best looking life counter for free with no adds or in app purchases, please keep it that way!!! Although I can’t give them anything other than a five star rating, I have some suggestions: 1. The ability to add a time limit to games, along with a shot clock for turns, I’d love to have the ability to have a faster paced game. 2. The ability to exit the keyboard without toggling something. At least a done button should do the trick. 3. The ability to create tournament brackets. The app doesn’t have to connect with other apps, but to I’d love it to pair up for group games and then bracket match ups. Beyond that, this is the only life counter, outside of the official companion app, that’ll ever be on my devices. Keep up the good work! 🤙🏻 **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind words! This means a lot, and we will definitely add your suggestions in an upcoming update! Love the feedback! 😊 ### 3/5 — New Bugs *2026-06-24, version 2.7.0* Please update the app. It is great and very streamlined but there is a current issue with adding commander damage that doesn’t update until you change life totals manually. ### 5/5 — Best app ever *2026-06-18, version 2.6.5* I think this is a great app and has a lot of cool features ### 5/5 — Good timez *2026-06-14, version 2.6.5* Me and my friends get to have so much fun and with this app it not only enhances, but ELEVATES the fun! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Bad *2026-07-25, version 2.7.1* Bad ### 1/5 — Wow *2026-07-20, version 2.7.1* Suck ### 1/5 — Bug makes this app nearly unusable…kinda *2026-06-22, version 2.7.0* Recently it stopped working well. Whenever someone takes commander damage, the app doesn’t visually show the damage, until more damage or health is gained,lost. So what happens, player takes commander damage. Then we have to add 1 and subtract 1 of normal damage to get it to update. It’s such an inconvenient thing where I’m exploring another App. Reinstalling doesn’t work either. Please fix it, this is my favorite life counter app. ### 1/5 — Feedback Loop *2026-06-20, version 2.7.0* Middle of game asked. ### 1/5 — fun *2026-05-31, version 2.6.3* i mean its ok i guess ### 1/5 — Trash app *2026-05-31, version 2.6.3* App is trash ### 1/5 — Card search feature not working *2026-01-23, version 2.6.3* I have been trying a million different ways and i cannot get the card search feature to work on my iPad. It works on my phone just fine but it won’t work on my iPad! Ugghhh! ### 1/5 — Slow *2026-01-01, version 2.6.3* Slow app ### 1/5 — Butt *2025-11-28, version 2.5.1* Butt ### 1/5 — When an app asks me to rate, I give it 1 star *2025-08-20, version 2.4.1* Title. Great app, though. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A premium experience. Completely free! *2026-08-26, version 2.7.4* I would pay money for a app like this because it has been the single most useful tracker for magic and makes setting up for games super fast. A-lot of players at my LGS saw me using this and immediately downloaded it and started using it because of how easy it is to use. Please support this app! ### 5/5 — Goog *2026-08-26, version 2.7.4* It help me beat my friend ### 5/5 — literally the BEST app!! *2026-08-20, version 2.7.2* so customizable and soooo many features!! this makes games even more fun with friends! ### 5/5 — Awesome! And Stylish *2026-08-20, version 2.7.2* Love the app, sleek and fun! Better than others I’ve seen in terms of aesthetic and functionality. Is there a way to set it to 2 players 😅 not completely necessary just wondering? ### 5/5 — Mmm *2026-08-17, version 2.7.2* Lettuce back in business ### 5/5 — Oogie Boogie Time *2026-08-13, version 2.7.2* I had a terrible time playing magic with what I thought was my friends. Really useful tool to tear friendships apart. ### 5/5 — Yes *2026-08-09, version 2.7.2* Goonable ### 5/5 — The best app for life counter. I will die on that hill!!! *2026-08-05, version 2.7.2* This app is the only life counter besides the official companion app that’ll ever be on my devices. The developers are really quick at responding to comments. The only things I would like added is a chess clock mechanic, to spice up games, and commander damage tracking for when you are the only one using the app (just in case I play against psychopaths) You guys are doing God’s work! Keep it up 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 ### 5/5 — Great app, would recommend!!! *2026-08-02, version 2.7.2* This app is visually appealing and amazing for tracking life in MTG, and has a bunch of hard-to-find MTG mechanics built in. Note for developer(s): Please add the “venture into the dungeon” mechanic and please change the card search so you can see the legality in all formats and see the rulings for the cards as well. God bless you all! ### 5/5 — Perfect, some features missing *2026-07-31* The App is great, but please add Statistics for Game History so i can see who is winning the most. --- *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.*