Counterwatch and Marvel Rivals Tracker, built by Tracker.gg, are the two free Overwolf apps most Marvel Rivals players weigh up. Counterwatch is the more complete companion. The overlay, the community data, and the session tracking all live in one app. Marvel Rivals Tracker has two things Counterwatch does not: deep player profiles and auto-clipped highlights. If either is what you are after, it earns its place. Everything else it does, Counterwatch does too, and usually more of it.
What Counterwatch does
Counterwatch is a Windows app on Overwolf, with a companion website. The app is the centre of it.
The overlay is built around a match roster widget. For every player on both teams it shows a live hero impact score, a read on how well that pick fits the match, computed from community data on the map, the rank, and both lineups. When your own hero is in a rough spot, the same widget puts your best swaps in front of you, and a single win-chance number tells you how the match is leaning. The team composition read runs continuously on the live picks rather than sitting behind a button.
The widget also tracks who is alive, who is walking back from spawn, who just swapped mid-match, and which slots are bots. For your own team it shows ultimate charge. Enemy ult charge is not in there, because the game does not expose it to apps.
Off the overlay there is a second-screen window for a spare monitor, a session view that grades your run from A to F, and a personal stats page with full match history, a per-player scoreboard for every game, and your win rate by hero and by map. The community data layer, the tier list, hero matchups, synergy and team-up pairs, and map-specific performance, sits in the app and on the website both, filterable by rank.
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As of May 2026, Counterwatch is at 4.9 out of 5 across 38 ratings on the Overwolf store, with around 243,000 downloads.
What Marvel Rivals Tracker adds
Marvel Rivals Tracker, by Tracker.gg, is the larger app by installs, around 458,000 downloads at 3.5 out of 5 across 15 ratings as of May 2026. It has been in beta for over a year, and the pace is slow. The public changelog shows two notable additions in that span, Discord activity statuses in March 2025 and a Team Status roster widget in November 2025.
The first thing it does that Counterwatch does not is player profiles, and it is the reason most people install it. During a match you can pull up a detailed profile on anyone in the lobby, their ranked history, hero performance, and lifetime stats. Counterwatch shows ranks for Marvel Rivals, which the game already shows you, and nothing deeper. If scouting the people in your games is what you want, that is a real gap and Marvel Rivals Tracker fills it.
The second is smart video highlights, short auto-clips of notable moments from your matches. Counterwatch does not make clips.
The rest of what the app does, Counterwatch also does, and more completely. The Team Status widget covers alive or dead and ultimate status, but not returning-from-spawn or in-place swaps, so you still rely on a popup for swaps. There is a second-screen window. There is a basic match-prediction number, though it does not appear to weigh map, synergy, or counter data the way ours does. Post-match you get a scoreboard and a comparison of the game against your last 20, which is a narrower slice of the per-hero and per-map history Counterwatch already tracks for you. None of it is something Counterwatch is missing.
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Side by side
| Counterwatch | Marvel Rivals Tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| In-game overlay | Yes | Yes |
| Hero impact score and swap recommendations per player | Yes | No |
| Win-chance prediction | Yes (map, rank, synergy, counters) | Yes (basic) |
| Counter and synergy data | Yes | No |
| Tier list, per-rank stats, map stats | Yes | No |
| Live team composition scoring in the overlay | Yes | No |
| Returning-from-spawn and live in-place swap status | Yes | No |
| Session tracking with an A to F grade | Yes | No |
| Personal stats by hero, by map, full match history | Yes | Basic (last-20 comparison) |
| Second-screen window | Yes | Yes |
| Detailed player profile scouting | No | Yes |
| Smart video highlights | No | Yes |
| Pricing | Free with ads, optional premium | Free with ads, optional premium |
| Status | Released, actively updated | Beta, minimal updates since 2025 |
Which one to use
For the in-match decision, who counters this comp, on this map, at your rank, and what to swap to, Counterwatch is the more complete app and the one built around that question. The overlay, the counter and synergy data, the live composition scoring, and the session tracking are all things Marvel Rivals Tracker does not have.
Marvel Rivals Tracker is worth running if you specifically want detailed profiles on the people in your lobby, or you like your highlights auto-clipped. Those are the two things it does that Counterwatch does not. For everything else, including the overlay and the stats behind your own play, Counterwatch already covers it, and covers more.