Comparison

Life Counter Magic vs Stikkr

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Life Counter Magic

A fast, multiplayer life tracker for Magic: The Gathering players. Easily manage life, counters, and game states for up to six players with intuitive gestures. Features include match history, dice rolling, and customizable counter types.

Highlights
  • 1-6 player support
  • Multiple counter types (life, poison, energy, etc.)
  • Game-state tracking (Initiative, Monarch, Day/Night)
  • Automatic match history
  • Integrated dice roller
  • Cloud sync for matches and settings
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Life Counter is a polished, fast multiplayer life-tracker for Magic: The Gathering. Tap to gain or lose life, swipe to switch counters, hold to fast-adjust. Three gestures and you've got it. Up to six players at one table. No setup, no account required. Built by a Magic player. Designed for the kitchen table, the FNM, and the prerelease. WHAT'S INSIDE • 1–6 players, every format. One-tap presets configure the board for Standard / Pioneer / Modern (20 life), Commander / EDH (40), Brawl (25), or Two-Headed Giant (30 shared). Mid-match-safe. A confirm dialog stops accidental resets. • Every counter on tap. Life, Poison, Energy, Experience, Loyalty, Charge. Plus the Magic-2026 set: Speed, Ring, Storm, Dungeon. Hide what you don't use. • Game-state pills. Initiative (Battle for Baldur's Gate), Monarch (multiplayer Commander), Day & Night (Innistrad). One tap passes them. No more paper tokens. • Match history that writes itself. Date, duration, decks, winner. Every match auto-saves. Bookmark your favourites. Cloud-synced once you sign in. • Sign in once, play anywhere. Apple, Google, or email. Match history syncs across iPhone and iPad. • Roll a die. D6 for who-goes-first, d20 for everything else. Tap the brand-pink dice in the centre of the board. • Polished for OLED. True-black dark mode, tabular numerals, haptic feedback on every tap. IOS 18 dynamic icons (Light, Dark, Tinted). • Six languages. English, Deutsch, Español, Nederlands, 日本語, 中文. WHY LIFE COUNTER You don't want to look at your phone during a game. You want to glance, tap, look back at the board. Every gesture is sized for that. Big tap targets, no menus to navigate, no shouting "wait, what's my life again?" The match timer runs in the background. The screen stays awake while you play. When the match ends, everything is recorded. So the morning after, you can see who lethal-ed whom on turn seven. CLOUD BACKUP. OPTIONAL Sign in once and your matches, settings and player profiles sync across all your iPhones and iPads. The app works perfectly without an account too. Sign-in is for sync, not gating. PRICING Life Counter is free. Watch a short ad to earn 10 extra match-history slots, up to four times per day. Or unlock Werbefrei (ad-free, lifetime) once and forget about it. No subscriptions, ever. PRIVACY Your matches and settings never leave your device unless you sign in for cloud sync. No analytics on game data. Authentication via Firebase. Crash reports via Crashlytics, anonymous. Magic: The Gathering is trademarked and owned by Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. This application is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or specifically approved by Wizards of the Coast LLC. © 2026 Wizards of the Coast LLC. All rights reserved.

About

Stikkr

Design and print custom labels directly from your device using text, images, and templates. Supports batch printing and offers an offline-first experience with no ads or accounts required.

Highlights
  • Label design canvas
  • 150+ pre-made templates
  • Bluetooth printing
  • Batch printing from CSV
  • Counter labels with encryption
  • Offline functionality
  • No ads or accounts
Features
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Stikkr is a label designer and Bluetooth print app for NIIMBOT D110, B1, B21, B3S and newer Phomemo M110 printers. It runs entirely on your device, with no accounts and no ads. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Design labels on a canvas — text, shapes, barcodes, QR codes, your own images. • Use 150+ ready-made templates: address blocks, price tags, jar labels, cable IDs, return-address strips, and more. • Print over Bluetooth straight to your printer. No cloud round-trip, no print server. • Batch print from a CSV or spreadsheet — type once, print fifty. • Counter labels with optional encryption — keep a private running series across batches without exposing the raw count. • Quick-fill any field from your phone keyboard or a clipboard paste. • Six languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Korean. WHAT IT WON'T DO • No account. No sign-up. No "create your free workspace." • No ads. Not a single banner, ever. • No analytics by default. One optional anonymous toggle in Settings, off out of the box. • No cloud sync in v1.0. Anything you make stays on your device unless you export it yourself. PRINTERS SUPPORTED AT LAUNCH • NIIMBOT D110 — the popular pocket label printer with replaceable ribbons. • NIIMBOT B1 / B21 / B3S — the larger desktop and portable models. • Phomemo M110 (newer BLE models, also sold as M150) — the M110 hardware with the OLED screen. Older M110 hardware revisions that only speak Bluetooth Classic SPP are not supported in this release. OFFLINE-FIRST BY DESIGN Your designs, spreadsheets, print history and printer pairings stay on your device. They are never sent to any server. You can use the entire label-designing-and-printing flow without giving us so much as an email address. The network is touched only for things you explicitly opt into: a one-time purchase, optional anonymous usage statistics, or a cloud feature you turn on yourself. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL UNLOCK Stikkr has a generous daily print quota that covers everyday use. If you regularly run big batches, a one-time in-app purchase removes the cap forever — no subscription, no recurring fee. Single payment, yours from then on. WHO THIS IS FOR People who bought a thermal label printer and would prefer their label app not to upsell them on premium fonts, login flows, or "AI Suggestions". Hobbyists, small-shop owners, archivists, anyone running a tidy household, anyone who labels jars. If you've been put off by the official apps that ship with these printers, this is the app they should have shipped with.

Screenshots

Life Counter Magic4 screens
Stikkr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stikkr at 100% against Life Counter Magic's 0%. Stikkr also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 78 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Life Counter Magic sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Stikkr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stikkr holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Life Counter Magic's written reviews are positive against 100% of Stikkr's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Life Counter Magic ships an update every 78 months, Stikkr every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Life Counter Magic versus Stikkr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife Counter MagicStikkr
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 78 monthsEvery 3 months — better
Ads—No
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaniel BobergSimon McAuliffe

Customer experience

Life Counter Magic

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Stikkr

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Life Counter Magic

One-time7
  • 100 Slots$1.99
  • Ad Free$3.99
  • 200 Slots$3.99
Show 4 more
  • 500 Slots$8.99
  • 1,000 Slots$13.99
  • 2,000 Slots$22.99
  • 10,000 Slots$44.99
1 purchases

Stikkr

One-time1
  • Unlimited Prints$7.99

Questions

Is Life Counter Magic free?
Life Counter Magic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stikkr free?
Stikkr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Life Counter Magic or Stikkr?
Stikkr is rated higher. Life Counter Magic averages 2.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Stikkr averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Which is updated more often, Life Counter Magic or Stikkr?
Life Counter Magic ships an update every 78 months, and Stikkr every 3 months. Most recently, Life Counter Magic was updated on November 2, 2026 and Stikkr on November 5, 2026.

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