MTG Life counter

I've tried a couple free life counting apps over the last few months and rarely stuck with them for long. A lot of them just don't feel quite right or lack a easy UI. Then there are the amount of options that you can consider, how many players do you want it to support? Do you want poison counters?

A quick search for a MTG life in the app store shows 62 results, quite a lot to shift through, so I thought I would share with you one of my current favourites, MTG Life and Score (available on the app store for free).

Yes I named my opponent Loser, yes i'm Ten

Now while this app is not as complex as some, you can only show two players and it only keeps track of life. It is by far the nicest looking life counter I think I have ever seen. While being able to name players is a nice touch, its a shame that it doesn't remember names between sessions. 

It has the standard plus/minus 1 as well as the always welcome plus/minus 5, this makes it easy to add life totals although I did notice with play that it sometimes won't register button touches leaving you sometimes searching for the 'sweet spot' on the screen.

But I mean come on, it's just so pretty and nice. If your looking for an iOS life tracking app on your phone this is one of the best. 

How to get free MS points method #2

Welcome to the second part of my guide on getting free MS points, to use this it requires an iPhone app called AppTrailers which is available free from the app store.

The premise of this app is simple, you watch trailers on your phone and you get points for doing so. These can be anywhere between 3 and 25 points. You also have a chance at winning a free scratch card daily which usually (if you win) pays between 20-30 points.

Now while you do need to collect a lot of points for it to be useful, 9000 for 800 MS points, it does payout 50 cents per 500 points via Paypal. By far the biggest problem however is the fact that it is American thus resulting in all the prizes being dollars, quite a hassle for Europe users. However I use this app mainly for PlayStation network credit and downloading games to my PSP. 

A neat way to get around this is to simply have a American account, it's easy to google an address to enter and then you can take it from there. The downside to this is that over here when you top up your get £10 and games are £3.99, With $10 and $5.99 games its a little annoying to say the least.

While it may seem like it takes forever to earn points with this app, I can easily rack up the points quite quickly just leaving it going while i'm doing something else. Without really trying its pretty easy to earn 500+ a day.