# MTG Mate - Magic Life Tracker — EDH Companion & Card Database

> EDH Companion & Card Database (iPhone/iPad app by Jacob Suchorabski.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mtg-mate-magic-life-tracker/id1530259213 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jacob Suchorabski](https://appshunter.io/developer/1187730508)
- Category: Games, Utilities, Board, Card
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish
- Released: 2020-10-31
- Data updated: 2026-07-23
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mtg-mate-magic-life-tracker/id1530259213/reviews.md

## What is MTG Mate?

The All-In-One Companion for Magic: The Gathering

Elevate your game with MTG Mate, the ultimate utility app designed by players, for players. Whether you're tracking complex Commander damage in a 6-player pod, organizing your card collection, or valuing your favorite decks, MTG Mate provides everything you need in one beautiful, ad-free package.

Dominate game night:
Experience the most intuitive life tracker on the App Store, built specifically for Commander/EDH but perfect for any format.

Smart Commander Tracking: Track commander damage, partner commanders, and companions with ease. Dedicated commander damage view with per-commander breakdowns and D-pad navigation support.
Infect and Counters: Monitor poison counters and other statuses with aggregated totals and per-player breakdowns.
Dynamic Layouts: Optimized views for 1 to 6 players that rotate and scale perfectly for your table setup.
Immersive Design: Customize player panels with official art from your Commander, featuring a modern glass-morphic UI that looks stunning on every device.
Friends List: Add friends and set private aliases that only you can see.
Cloud Trades: Create trades with friends that sync in real time. Build card lists together from separate devices.
Stats Hub: Match results are recorded and your cards value tracked over time.
Shared Collections: View and manage cards that friends have shared with you.
Manage your collection: Turn your physical library into a digital powerhouse.
Bulk Management: Organize your library in seconds with powerful tools to select, move, or delete multiple cards at once. Import from manabox or archidekt!
Offline Access: Your entire card database is stored locally, so you can browse your collection even without an internet connection.
Master your decks: Build, analyze, and value your decks with professional-grade tools.
Deck Analytics: Get instant estimates on your deck's total financial value and view mana curves and type distributions.
Format Legality: Automatically validate your decks against current ban lists to ensure you're tournament-ready.
Cloud Sync: Sign in with email to sync your decks and collection across all your iOS devices. Start building on your iPhone and finish on your iPad.
Powerful card database with a Scryfall Integration: Search the complete Magic history with high-resolution images, up-to-date rulings, and real-time pricing.
Smart Search: Find exactly what you need with robust filters and deduplicated results that show each card once, even across multiple printings.
Player focused features: No Ads, No Distractions: A clean interface focused entirely on your game.
Battery Friendly: Optimized performance that keeps your screen on during gameplay without draining your battery.
Dice Roller: Built-in 3D physics dice for random outcomes.

From the kitchen table to the tournament floor, MTG Mate is the only tool you need to play, collect, and win. Download now and upgrade your Magic experience.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2026.8.5 — 2026-07-22

This release focuses on Card discovery, offline database reliability, and Card library data integrity.

 • Offline search results now appear immediately while online results continue loading in the background.
 • Improved offline search accuracy with cleaner, duplicate-free card identities and the removal of tokens,
 emblems, art cards, playtest cards, and other non-playable extras.
 • Fixed large offline database downloads failing during processing (Thank you Christian for reporting the bug!).
 • Interrupted downloads can now resume safely, and processing errors can be retried without downloading the
 entire database again.
 • Offline database updates now use less memory and safely preserve the existing database if an update is
 interrupted or fails.
 • Card details including oracle text, prices, and images are now fully refreshed instead of leaving older
 records unchanged.
 • Enabled offline databases now check for updates daily while the app is active on Wi‑Fi, with improved retry
 handling for temporary failures.
 • Existing offline data is migrated automatically and excluded from device and iCloud backups.
 • Recent Card library edits are saved more reliably when the app moves to the background.
 • Improved Cloud sync session reliability and protection against conflicting card moves.
 • Strengthened trade ledger integrity and participant protections.
 • Additional stability, performance, and security improvements across Cloud sync and the web Card library.

### 2026.8.4 — 2026-07-12

- Fixed a bug that would cause the app to crash when adding new cards in a deck for some users.
- Added an option to set your life to unlimited if you get infinite life points.
- You can disable the app showing you as dead when you hit 0 or less life points if you have cards allowing you to keep playing.
- Improved accessibility in the game board view to handle contrast and text size changes better.
- Other smaller improvements.

### 2026.8.3 — 2026-07-02

- Brand new stats hub populated with match history and collection value data.
- Preserved the Card library when stored card data cannot be decoded, reducing the risk of accidental local data loss after storage-format issues.
- Hardened import parsing for CSV-style card lists and improved role quantity handling for deck imports.
- Tidied the card detail/add-to-deck flow and corrected related edge cases.

### 2026.8.2 — 2026-06-10

Massive reduction of and simplification of the codebase, various security patches and performance improvements.

### 2026.8.1 — 2026-05-25

Bugfixes and behind the scenes changes like migrating the backend for user accounts to Cloudflare.

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All apps by Jacob Suchorabski: https://appshunter.io/developer/1187730508

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