Comparison

Life Total vs Moxtopper

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Life total tracking
  • Commander damage tracking
  • Supports 1-10 players
  • Customizable seating arrangements
  • Digital playmats
  • Turn clocks
  • AirPlay streaming
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Life Total4 screens
Moxtopper4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Life Total versus Moxtopper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLife TotalMoxtopper
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (7.2K ratings) — better4.6 (1.1K ratings)
Positive reviews60.1% of reviews88.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7.2K — better1.1K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB84 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developertalisman.gamesNice Boy LLC

Customer experience

Life Total

All ratings7,230 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral2.2%
Negative5.3%
Written reviews308 reviews
Positive60.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative33.1%

Moxtopper

All ratings1,055 ratings
Positive91.1%
Neutral2.1%
Negative6.8%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive88.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative10.0%

User reviews

Life Total

From 7.2K App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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
Show 2 more
  • Partner commander damage tracking
  • Poison counter tracking

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Life Total

One-time1
  • Ad-Free Upgrade$4.99
2 purchases

Moxtopper

One-time2
  • Big Moods Playmat Set$0.99
  • Custom Playmats$4.99

Questions

Is Life Total free?
Life Total is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Moxtopper free?
Moxtopper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Life Total or Moxtopper?
Life Total is rated higher. Life Total averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7.2K ratings, while Moxtopper averages 4.6 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Life Total or Moxtopper have ads?
Life Total shows ads; Moxtopper does not.
Which is updated more often, Life Total or Moxtopper?
Life Total ships an update every 3 weeks, and Moxtopper every 3 months. Most recently, Life Total was updated on September 24, 2026 and Moxtopper on September 14, 2026.

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