Magic Life Counter vs The Tool Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Life Counter
This app simplifies tracking game elements during Magic: The Gathering matches. It supports various formats and player counts, allowing you to monitor life, counters, and other game-specific metrics. Never lose track of your game state again with this digital companion.
- Duel and multiplayer support
- Tracks life, poison, commander damage, loyalty
- Customizable counter tracking
- Round time tracking
- Virtual dice and coin flip
- Game history and notes
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Track everything in your Magic: The Gathering games: life, poison counters, commander damage, tokens, planeswalker loyalty, and anything else you can think of. No more notepads and dice! Features: • Duels or multiplayer games, with unlimited players • Every format: Standard, Modern, Two-Headed Giant, Commander… you name it • All the basics: life, poison counters, commander damage, loyalty, tokens • Custom counters for anything: Omnath mana, commander tax, counters on permanents • Rotate counters so your opponent can use the app too • Face-to-face mode for 1v1 duels on a single device • Round timer for your match • Replaces your Planechase dice • Virtual dice and coin flip • Saves your friends' names so you can add them to a game quickly • Match history with notes and pictures • Light and dark mode, on iPhone and iPad Enjoy, and tell your friends about the MLC! ––––––––––––––– Legal Stuff ––––––––––––––– Wizards of the Coast, Magic: The Gathering, and their logos are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC in the United States and other countries. Magic Life Counter is owned by Ajfek Software and is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, specifically approved or authorized by Wizards of the Coast LLC.
The Tool Game
Engage in a relaxing puzzle game where you combine world objects, run simulations, and create new messages to share. Explore macro and micro levels, visualize epistemology, and receive cloud packages.
- Object combination and simulation
- Create and share messages
- Cloud package unboxing
- Explore macro and micro levels
- Visualize epistemology basics
- Educational casual puzzle gameplay
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A relaxing and educational casual puzzle game. Create your own combinations of world objects, watch and run simulations, create new messages and share your creations with other players. Receive packages from the cloud and unbox it. The basic concept of the game is the endless equipment. The program screen allows you to interact with living and plant objects, planetary systems and microscopic chemical structures. In the Game you create unique combinations of these objects and launching it in the gravitational dance, then you can name the resulting kits. You can collect the word packages into statements and share them through the Internet cloud. You can download other people's messages and make colorful unpacking. The game concept is a reinforcement of the human tools and a simulation of progress through additivity. Such a principle of knowledge contradicts The law of conservation of mass and can eventually uncontrollably destroy the ecosystem of human world. This game is a warning about this scenario. Often we are not able to understand the scale of what is happening, neither at the macro nor micro levels. The additive accumulation of tool properties does not always increase its characteristics. In general, the possibility of exchanging ready-made tools via the Internet and the use of saved instruments in other enlarged meta-instruments will allow us to visualize the basics of human epistemology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Tool Game at 5.0 against Magic Life Counter's 4.1. The Tool Game also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 8) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 months). Magic Life Counter's advantage is ratings volume (46 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Magic Life Counter sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. The Tool Game asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Tool Game holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Life Counter has 46 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Magic Life Counter ships an update every 2 months, The Tool Game daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Magic Life Counter | The Tool Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (46 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ajfek Software | Mikhail Maksimov |
Customer experience
Magic Life Counter
The Tool Game
Bugs and requests
Magic Life Counter
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on startup
- Scrolling issues with many players
- Dark mode toggle not working as expected
- Ads reappearing after premium upgrade
Requested features
4 requests- Add more player support (beyond 4)
- Implement game history tracking
- Improve UI customization options
- Optimize battery usage
The Tool Game
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Magic Life Counter
- Dark colorful skin$0.99
- High-contrast dark skin$0.99
- Milky white skin$0.99
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- Remove all ads$2.99
- Match history$2.99
- Game profiles$2.99
- PRO Features$4.99
- All the Things!$4.99
The Tool Game
No in-app purchases
Questions
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