Life Total vs Moxtopper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Life Total
This app helps Magic: The Gathering players track their life totals during games. It offers a streamlined interface with features like two-way screen setup, quick life adjustments, and support for multiple players. Customize your experience with different backgrounds and counter types.
- Two-way screen setup
- Tap to add/subtract life
- 1-6 player layouts
- Dice roll feature
- Customizable backgrounds
- Poison and generic counters
- Game over detection
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Track your life when playing Magic: The Gathering with this FREE little app. Set your phone on the table between you and your opponent and simply start playing. We've worked hard to provide as clean and streamlined an experience as possible. ====== MAJOR FEATURES ====== - Two-way screen setup, ideal for playing at tables. - Add or subtract Life with a tap, or hold down to auto-tap. - Layouts for 1-6 players. - Dice roll feature. - Customizable backgrounds. - Optional Poison counters, and other generic counter types. - Change default starting life to fit various game modes. - Collapsible center bar that hides global features when they aren't needed. - Game over detection for quick access to the Reset button. ============================= Magic Life Total is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. We want to know what YOU want out of your MtG life counter. Please send us feedback on our website!
Moxtopper
This app helps track life totals and commander damage for multiplayer card games. It supports up to 10 players and offers customizable layouts and digital playmats. Features include turn clocks, AirPlay streaming, and detailed game statistics.
- Life total tracking
- Commander damage tracking
- Supports 1-10 players
- Customizable seating arrangements
- Digital playmats
- Turn clocks
- AirPlay streaming
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No game of Commander is complete without Moxtopper on your table. EASY TO USE • Keep track of every player’s life total with tasty text and chonky buttons. • The user interface is designed to be usable from all viewing directions. Just place your iPhone or iPad in the middle of your play surface and you’re good to go. • Multiple-touch support. Your whole play group can use it at the same time. TRACKS COMMANDER DAMAGE • We know that tracking commander damage is a *huge* pain. With Moxtopper, it couldn’t be easier. At any time a player can swipe horizontally on their play area to see how much commander damage they’ve taken from all the other players’ commanders. • Commander damage is tracked per *commander*, so it works great with partner commanders, too! • If you’re using partner commanders, just swipe down on your play area and press the “Partners” button to toggle partner commander mode on or off. GREAT FOR EVERY PLAY GROUP • Moxtopper is optimized to work great not just for 4 player games, but also for any game of 1 to 10 — yes, ten! — players. That means it’s right at home during one-on-one games of Friday Night Magic as well as gigantic Multiplayer Planechase House Rules Banlist Slugfests. • Configurable with a total of 32 possible seating arrangements so that layout of play areas on the screen always comfortably matches the way your play group likes to sit around the table. UPGRADE YOUR EXPERIENCE • Customize each player’s area with awesome digital “playmats”, similarly to how you are probably rolling out full art playmats on your game table in real life. • Comes with five free digital playmats • Additional digital playmats can be unlocked via in-app purchases, including one that lets you import any photo you want from your Photos library. Thanks ahead of time for supporting Moxtopper through these must-have upgrades! • In addition to the playmats, there are bonus themes in fun, readable colors. OTHER COOL FEATURES • STATS-S-S-S-S-S — Keep track of in-game numbers like commander tax, infect, storm, experience, energy, mana pools, and more using the player options menu (swipe down on your player to see these options). • TURN CLOCKS — Turn on Turn Clocks to help folks stay mindful of how long their turns are. Just like chess clocks, they tick down the seconds from your customizable start time. Moxtopper ensures only one player can be active at a time. • AIRPLAY — Stream your game locally via AirPlay to a compatible Apple TV by enabling Screen Mirror and using the app like you normally would. Great for going top-eight at your Local Game Store! • CHARTS — Share and remember your splashiest games with cool charts that show the roller coaster ride of life totals as they change over the course of a game. Requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or later. • HIGH ROLL — Save time by high-rolling to see who plays first with just a single tap. • APP ICONS — Bling out your homescreen with a bunch of alternate app icons. • SCRYFALL — Scryfall search box integrated into the main options menu. • MADE BY A FAN — Moxtopper is made by a fan of the game, just one guy (me, the one writing this, howdy) who really really likes artisanal, hand-made, bespoke, fussy, delightful little apps with big dreams. Seriously I appreciate all the support ya’ll send my way. WHAT IS COMMANDER? Just in case you didn’t already know, in the “Commander” format of Magic: the Gathering, you and your friends battle each other with legendary creatures, huge decks of crazy cards, making splashy plays until there’s only one player left standing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Moxtopper at none against Life Total's shown. Moxtopper also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 60%). Life Total's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (7.2K vs 1.1K). On price, rating, 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. Life Total sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Moxtopper sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Life Total against 4.6 for Moxtopper. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Life Total has 7.2K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Life Total's written reviews are positive against 88% of Moxtopper's.
Life Total ships an update every 3 weeks, Moxtopper every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life Total | Moxtopper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (7.2K ratings) — better | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.1% of reviews | 88.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7.2K — better | 1.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | talisman.games | Nice Boy LLC |
Customer experience
Life Total
Moxtopper
User reviews
Life Total
From 7.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive
- 🎨 Customizable colors
- 🎲 Dice roll feature
- 💯 Works great for 1v1 games
- 🔢 Supports different life totals
Room to improve
- 🔋 Battery draining issues
- 🔍 Intrusive/malicious ads
- 🐛 Bugs causing app crashes
- 🔓 Security/privacy concerns
- 🚫 Automatic browser redirects
Moxtopper
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Wonderful app
- 👍 Lovely sounds
- 👍 Great UI
- 👍 Easy to understand and use
- 👍 Aesthetically pleasing
Room to improve
- 💰 Charging for backgrounds
- 🐛 Display errors
- 🐛 No damage history
- 🐛 No indicators to add or subtract life
- 🐛 Commander damage tracking bug
Bugs and requests
Life Total
Reported bugs
4 issues- App not loading past splash screen
- Randomly opening browser tabs
- Incorrect life total changes
- Music playback issues
Requested features
5 requests- Support for more than 2 players
- Commander damage tracking
- Planeswalker loyalty counters
- Life total history/logging
- Landscape mode for 2-player
Moxtopper
Reported bugs
4 issues- Display errors
- No damage history
- No indicators to add or subtract life
- Commander damage tracking bug
Requested features
7 requests- Add commander tax and poison tracking
- Ability to skip tutorial
- Transition or GIF support for backgrounds
- Turn tracker
- Dice roll animation
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- Partner commander damage tracking
- Poison counter tracking
In-app purchases
Life Total
- Ad-Free Upgrade$4.99
Moxtopper
- Big Moods Playmat Set$0.99
- Custom Playmats$4.99









