# Tempo: Life Counter & Clock — Life counter & table clock

> Life counter & table clock (iPhone/iPad app by Jeffry Arias.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tempo-life-counter-and-clock/id6812206072 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jeffry Arias](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796137649)
- Category: Utilities, Entertainment
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 19 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-21
- Data updated: 2026-10-24

## What is Tempo?

Tempo is the table companion for Magic: The Gathering. Lay the phone flat in the center of the table and every player gets their own seat, rotated to face them. Open, pick a mode, play.

YOUR COMMANDER, BEHIND YOUR LIFE
Search any Magic card and put its art behind your life total. Playing partners? Split your panel between both commanders with a slanted seam in your colour. Every painting is credited to its artist, and art is saved on your phone so it works with no signal.

SAVE YOUR POD
Save players with their name, colour and card art, and seat them at any seat next game in one tap. Changes you make at the table are kept in the saved player.

LIFE MODE
Tap the top or bottom half of your seat to move life. Hold to ramp. Every seat shows a delta chip so the whole pod can see what just happened. Starting life at 20, 30, 40 or any custom total, for 2 to 4 players. Pick your seat colour from eight tones.

CHESS CLOCK MODE
Every player gets their own time bank. Tap your seat to start your clock and pause everyone else. Low time glows ember, and a seat that hits zero is out. Long-press the center to change the time bank mid game. Perfect for tournament practice, timed pods and tables that take too long.

BUILT FOR COMMANDER
Commander damage per opponent, tracked from each source so the 21 damage rule is always exact, including partner commanders: each partner keeps its own count. Damage turns ember as it gets close to lethal. Poison, energy, experience, rad, treasure and commander tax counters. Monarch and initiative that move with a tap. Death causes are named on the shroud, and Revive brings back a seat eliminated by mistake.

MANA POOL AND STORM
A shared mana pool with official mana glyphs and a storm count that lives outside your mana total.

DICE AND RANDOMIZERS
Coin flip, d4 to d20, custom dice, a random seat picker and a random opponent picker. Natural 20s get the gold burst they deserve.

MADE FOR THE TABLE
Seats face each edge of the phone, two per side or square. Players, colours and art persist between games. The screen stays awake for the whole game. Dark by design, so it does not light up the room.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no sign in, no ads and no tracking. Everything stays on your device. The only time Tempo goes online is when you search for card art, and all it sends is the search.

Card data and images are provided by Scryfall. Tempo is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved or endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. (c) Wizards of the Coast LLC.

## Is Tempo safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Tempo.

## Is Tempo legit?

Tempo: Life Counter & Clock has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Tempo is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-10-20

K.O. button: when a player concedes, knock them out in one tap from their seat panel, right next to Monarch. Their numbers stay on the table, and Revive brings them back.
Tablets: a new split screen shows life totals on the top half and chess clocks on the bottom half, both running at once. Turn it on in Table setup.
Saved players: delete one (with undo) or clear them all at once, from Table setup or any seat.
Partner art: each commander is framed in its own half, so both stay fully visible.

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-01

Card art backgrounds: search any Magic card and put its art behind your life total, or split it between two partners.
Saved players: keep name, colour and art, and seat them at any seat next game.
Partner commanders: each partner now has its own commander damage count.
Pick your seat colour from eight tones.
A cleaner player panel, with damage getting close to lethal highlighted.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-22

No release notes.

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