Tempo: Life Counter & Clock
Jeffry Arias Utilities iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Tempo: Life Counter & Clock is a free Utilities app for iPhone and iPad by Jeffry Arias. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated November 1, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 20 MB
- Age 9+
- Updated
- Nov 1
- 2026 · v1.5.0
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About Tempo: Life Counter & Clock
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.
What’s new
Version 1.5.0 · Updated November 1, 2026
Swipe in any direction to flip the table between Life and Clock. Life totals and running clocks are kept. Seat names are centred on their panel.
App privacy
The developer, Jeffry Arias, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tempo: Life Counter & Clock | – | Free | November 1, 2026 | |
| Chrono-Tithe: Turn Timer | – | Free | Aug 11, 2026 | Compare |
| Tempo - Game & Chess Clock | 5.0 / 5 (1) | Free | Jul 2, 2026 | Compare |
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