Tempo: Life Counter & Clock
Life counter & table clock
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Tempo is the table companion for Magic: The Gathering. Lay the phone flat in the center of the table and every player gets their own seat, rotated to face them. Open, pick a mode, play.
YOUR COMMANDER, BEHIND YOUR LIFE
Search any Magic card and put its art behind your life total. Playing partners? Split your panel between both commanders with a slanted seam in your colour. Every painting is credited to its artist, and art is saved on your phone so it works with no signal.
SAVE YOUR POD
Save players with their name, colour and card art, and seat them at any seat next game in one tap. Changes you make at the table are kept in the saved player.
LIFE MODE
Tap the top or bottom half of your seat to move life. Hold to ramp. Every seat shows a delta chip so the whole pod can see what just happened. Starting life at 20, 30, 40 or any custom total, for 2 to 4 players. Pick your seat colour from eight tones.
CHESS CLOCK MODE
Every player gets their own time bank. Tap your seat to start your clock and pause everyone else. Low time glows ember, and a seat that hits zero is out. Long-press the center to change the time bank mid game. Perfect for tournament practice, timed pods and tables that take too long.
BUILT FOR COMMANDER
Commander damage per opponent, tracked from each source so the 21 damage rule is always exact, including partner commanders: each partner keeps its own count. Damage turns ember as it gets close to lethal. Poison, energy, experience, rad, treasure and commander tax counters. Monarch and initiative that move with a tap. Death causes are named on the shroud, and Revive brings back a seat eliminated by mistake.
MANA POOL AND STORM
A shared mana pool with official mana glyphs and a storm count that lives outside your mana total.
DICE AND RANDOMIZERS
Coin flip, d4 to d20, custom dice, a random seat picker and a random opponent picker. Natural 20s get the gold burst they deserve.
MADE FOR THE TABLE
Seats face each edge of the phone, two per side or square. Players, colours and art persist between games. The screen stays awake for the whole game. Dark by design, so it does not light up the room.
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account, no sign in, no ads and no tracking. Everything stays on your device. The only time Tempo goes online is when you search for card art, and all it sends is the search.
Card data and images are provided by Scryfall. Tempo is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved or endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. (c) Wizards of the Coast LLC.
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K.O. button: when a player concedes, knock them out in one tap from their seat panel, right next to Monarch. Their numbers stay on the table, and Revive brings them back.
Tablets: a new split screen shows life totals on the top half and chess clocks on the bottom half, both running at once. Turn it on in Table setup.
Saved players: delete one (with undo) or clear them all at once, from Table setup or any seat.
Partner art: each commander is framed in its own half, so both stay fully visible.
The developer, Jeffry Arias, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Jeffry Arias
- Size
- 20.3 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jeffry Arias