Magic Life Counter for Android

This is a great app, super useful and easy to use. Any feature I want in a life counter app this one has. I use this to track my Parties HP in Dungeons and Dragons, and has been the best way to track every bodies HP including the monsters I am running. This review is only 2 stars because I bought the full version for $10. For that price it shouldn’t have any of the bugs I am experiencing. First off, it’s always in Dark Mode. When I close the app and open it again it goes to Light Mode for a minute, then right back to Dark. Even if Dark Mode isn’t turned on. This isn’t a constant thing either, sometimes it happens sometimes it doesn’t. Second, whenever I open a saved Game Profile, it doesn’t show the Game Profile I clicked on. It shows the previous one until I close the app and open it again. Then the Game Profile I wanted to open will show up. Third, sometimes the numbers and icons on the app will be super small for no reason. Again I have to close and open the app to fix it. Fourth, it won’t scroll right away. If I give it a minute or close/open the app it fixes it. All these issues happen if I open the app by itself, or if I am using the app split screen on my Mobile. Lastly I have all these issues on my phone as well. None of these issues make the app crash, but if you’re gonna charge $10 for the full version, it shouldn’t be having these problems. Developers please fix this, thank you.

Still the most full-featured app of its kind, with features few if any others have, like tracking Commander damage properly per-commander, and tracking of essentially any arbitrary counter or token. Its UX is still not the most intuitive though, like configuring and managing game profiles and named players. During gameplay the design works fairly well. The “Hide bars on swipe” option is broken for me—it seems impossible to bring toolbars back after swiping them away, except to force-quit the app which loses the current game history. I would raise my rating if this is fixed, because it is potentially a nice feature for reducing interface clutter when sharing control of one device during play. It would also be nice to have more pleasing visualization for dice rolls, that some alternative apps do better.

I used this app for a few years, paid to remove ads, and found it very handy. The only drawback was that it used insane amounts of battery power when running. After a recent iOS upgrade I noticed excessive battery drainage, even with no apps running, so I started poking around. While testing some things I opened this app and found, deep in the settings menu, "Opt-in to Ad Tracking." It was on by default. I turned it off, quit and restarted the app, and checked that setting again. It had turned itself back on. I deleted this app, and suddenly my battery is lasting much longer than it has in years. So this is a great, full-featured M:tG life counter, but it also sells your data and guzzles your battery. I consider that a bad trade.

Clean, configurable, single player life, and big numbers.

Biggest problem of apps is they try and be every item in the pizza place at once. But that ends up looking like mush. This is your plain pepperoni pizza: Does what it says, does it well, and makes you happy. 10/10 review