Torn Tools vs Upkeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Torn Tools
Enhance your gameplay in a text-based role-playing game with helpful scripts. This tool offers visual improvements, streamlines repetitive tasks, and provides valuable statistics to improve your gaming experience.
- Visual enhancements
- Streamlined repetitive actions
- In-game statistics
- Game experience improvement
- Helpful scripts
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Several Tools for Torn This extension is for an online text-based role-playing game Torn. It is packed with lots of small but helpful scripts that enhance the game experience. The extension will help with visuals, ease repetitive actions & give statistics.
Upkeep
This app helps Magic: The Gathering players track game stats like life totals, commander damage, and more without manual calculations. It offers features for up to eight players, including turn tracking, team play, and detailed game logs. The app also supports pre-game setup and post-game analysis, with optional PRO features for enhanced record-keeping.
- Life, commander damage, and counter tracking
- Turn and initiative tracking
- Team play support
- Pre-game mulligan rules
- Post-game results and logs
- Dice and coin rolling
- Offline functionality
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Upkeep is a life counter for Magic: the Gathering players who are tired of doing arithmetic out loud. Two to eight players, each with a panel of their own, turned to face them across the table. There are no plus and minus buttons: tap a player for their menu, drag one player onto another to record the actions between them, hold a panel to pass the turn. Every tap becomes a log entry for ArcaneMetriX pods, so the game writes its own history while you play it. FREE, AND FREE OF EVERYTHING ELSE • No ads, no pop-ups mid-game, no account required for the base life counter. • Works with no signal. Nothing about tracking a game should require the internet. AT THE TABLE • 2–8 players, in layouts that face everyone at once. • Life, commander damage, commander tax, poison, and energy, experience and rad counters. • The monarch and the initiative, passed with a tap. • Land drops, mulligans, who went first, and a turn timer that calls out a long turn. • Teams: two players, one panel, one life total. • Your commanders' artwork behind every panel. • Undo anything, or read the whole game back in the log that tracks every action. • Dice from d4 to d100, a coin, the planar die, and a random player picker. BEFORE THE GAME • Pick who leads, or let the table roll for it. • Keep or mulligan under London, Vancouver, Paris or the original rule, free first mulligan included. Or if your ArcaneMetriX pod has a house rule mulligan, you can just use that. AFTER THE GAME • A results screen: who won, how long it ran, and what happened along the way. • Sign in with an ArcaneMetriX PRO account and the game you just tracked becomes a Pod Game Log entry by itself including players, decks, placements, eliminations, turn count and a turn-by-turn life chart, with no form to fill in afterwards. • Pod ratings update the moment the game ends. • Plan pod nights, say you are coming, say what you are bringing, and start the game with the seats and decks already filled. Pod features and stats are available to ArcaneMetriX PRO members. The tracker itself is free. PRIVACY No ads and no tracking of any kind. Crash reports only; and they are never tied to who you are. If you never sign in, the app never sends anything anywhere. Upkeep is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. Magic: the Gathering and its respective properties are copyright of Wizards of the Coast. Spellvector Interactive LLC is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Upkeep at 5.0 against Torn Tools's 4.2. Upkeep also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Torn Tools's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Upkeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Torn Tools has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Torn Tools ships an update every 6 weeks, Upkeep every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Torn Tools | Upkeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Zach Wozniak | Mark Simmons |
Customer experience
Torn Tools
Upkeep
In-app purchases
Torn Tools
No in-app purchases
Upkeep
No in-app purchases









