Counterwatch vs Marvel Rivals Tracker by Tracker.gg: which Overwolf app actually helps you win

Counterwatch and Marvel Rivals Tracker (by Tracker.gg) are the two free apps on Overwolf that most Marvel Rivals players end up choosing between. They're built around different ideas of what a companion app should do. Marvel Rivals Tracker's pitch is player scouting: pull up a detailed profile on anyone in your lobby. Counterwatch's pitch is decision support: given the picks on screen, the map, and your rank, who should you play, and how is the match likely to go. Picking between them mostly comes down to which of those questions you'd rather have answered while you play.

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What Counterwatch does for Marvel Rivals

Counterwatch is a Windows app on Overwolf. The website has some pre-queue tools we'll get to in a minute, but the app is the main thing.

The in-game overlay is built around a match roster widget. For every player on both teams it shows a live hero impact score — a number for how well that pick fits into the match, computed from community data on the map, the rank, who's on the other team, and who's on your team. When your own hero looks rough, the same widget surfaces top swap recommendations. There's also a total win-chance prediction for the match, from the same factors. The team composition scorer is part of this; it runs continuously on whatever picks are live, not as a separate tool you have to open.

The widget covers the rest of what a roster overlay should: whether each player is alive, whether they're returning from spawn, and whether anyone's swapped hero mid-match. For your own team only, it shows ultimate charge. Enemy ult charge isn't there — the game doesn't expose it to apps, and we wouldn't show it if it did.

There's a separate hero-swap notification when anyone changes hero, a second-screen window for spare monitors, and a session view that grades your run on an A–F scale across wins, losses, hero pool, and win rate. Match history persists with a full per-player scoreboard for every game played with the app open. Personal stats break down per hero and per map.

The community data layer is in the app: tier list filterable by rank, hero matchups across the whole roster, synergy and team-up data, and map-specific hero performance. None of this is website-only.

A few pre-queue tools do live on the website. The team builder is a sandbox — drop heroes in, see how the composition scores against any enemy lineup, useful for planning around specific matchups before you queue. Best one tricks ranks heroes by a maintainability score that weighs win rate, consistency, performance against the meta, and synergy breadth — picks that hold up across many games rather than narrow stompers. Best duos takes your hero pool and a friend's pool and surfaces partner picks that have actually been winning together. Expand hero pool is for the "what should I learn next" question, scoring candidates on counter coverage, map performance, and synergy with your existing pool. The team builder is coming to the app; the others are likely staying where they are.

Pricing is free with ads, with a subscription to remove ads. Premium-tier features are coming, and subscribing now locks in a permanently lower price as an early supporter.

As of May 2026, the Overwolf store has Counterwatch at 4.9/5 across 38 ratings and about 243,000 downloads.

What Marvel Rivals Tracker does

Marvel Rivals Tracker, by Tracker.gg, is the biggest Marvel Rivals app on Overwolf — about 458,000 downloads, 3.5/5 across 15 ratings as of May 2026. Still listed as beta over a year after launch, and the update cadence has been slow: their public changelog shows two notable feature drops in that span, Discord activity statuses in March 2025 and a "Team Status" roster widget in November 2025.

The reason most people install it is the profile scouting. During a match, you can pull up a detailed profile on anyone in the lobby and see their ranked history, hero performance, and lifetime stats. The app also keeps a profile lookup for yourself and anyone you've previously played with. This is genuinely the strongest thing the app does and the main reason to install it.

It also has smart video highlights — short clip-style cuts of notable moments from your matches: kills, multi-kills, objective plays. Counterwatch doesn't generate clips.

The in-game overlay is lighter than Counterwatch's. Their Team Status widget shows alive/dead and ultimate status, but not returning-from-spawn or in-place hero-swap indicators — for swaps, you rely on the separate notification popup. There's also a second-screen window. The app appears to surface a basic match-prediction number, but it doesn't seem to factor in map, synergy, or counter data the way ours does.

Post-match is a scoreboard plus a comparison of your match stats against your last 20 — K/D/A, K/D, damage per minute, healing per minute, accuracy. Not much beyond that.

Pricing is the same model as Counterwatch on paper: free with ads, subscription removes ads, no documented premium-only features at time of writing.

Side-by-side

	Counterwatch	Marvel Rivals Tracker
In-game overlay	Yes	Yes
Hero impact + 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 overlay	Yes	No
Detailed teammate/opponent profile scouting	No	Yes
Smart video highlights	No	Yes
Live session tracking with A–F grade	Yes	No
Personal match history + scoreboard	Yes	Yes
"This match vs last 20" averages	No	Yes
Second-screen window	Yes	Yes
Pricing	Free w/ ads + optional premium	Free w/ ads + optional premium
Status	Released, actively updated	Beta, minimal updates since 2025

Which one to install

If what you want from a Marvel Rivals app is to look at the people you're playing with — see who that enemy duelist is, what they've been playing, how they do at their rank — Marvel Rivals Tracker is the better pick. Profile depth is their core feature and it's still ahead of anything Counterwatch does on that front. Same for clip review: if smart video highlights matter to you, Counterwatch doesn't have that.

If what you want is help picking the right hero in the moment — knowing which of the six possible swaps has the best matchup against what the enemy is running on this map at your rank — Counterwatch is the better pick. The data layer is what we've put most of our effort into, and the overlay is doing more work because it's tied directly to that. The roster widget is also more useful moment-to-moment: returning-from-spawn and live swap state aren't on the Team Status equivalent.

It mostly comes down to which question you're asking yourself more often during a match. If it's who is this player on the enemy team, go Marvel Rivals Tracker. If it's should I stay on this hero or swap, go Counterwatch.