The best BJJ apps in 2026, compared side by side
By Scott Flear, founder of JitsAI. Every fact about another app comes from its own store listing or website, read on 29 Sep 2026.
The best BJJ app depends on the job. For a training journal: BJJ Notes, Marune, Kimura or Grappling AI. For learning techniques: BJJ Fanatics, Submeta or BJJ Roadmap. For strength and competition prep: JuggernautBJJ. For watching events: FloGrappling. For a weekly system that proves what works against which partners: JitsAI, our app.
We make JitsAI, so read this knowing that. The table is alphabetical, not a ranking. We describe what each app says it does and what it costs, and we don’t score other people’s apps.
Which BJJ apps are worth a look in 2026?
Ten apps across five jobs: training logs, instruction, strength and conditioning, watching events, and a weekly training system.
| App | What it’s for | Platforms | Price model | Key difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJJ Fanatics | Watching instructionals you buy one at a time | iPhone, Android | Free app; instructionals are bought individually (in-app courses listed at $38.99) | A store of instructionals from named competitors and coaches, with the app as the player |
| BJJ Notes | Logging every roll and seeing the stats | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android | Free to start; PRO $7.90 a month, $59.90 a year or $149 lifetime | Roll-by-roll logging with stats such as subs per roll and taps per roll, plus streaks |
| BJJ Roadmap | A beginner’s video map of how the positions fit together | iPhone, iPad, Android | Free section; paid positions $3.99 each or $13.99 for all | A position-by-position overview course rather than a log or a store |
| FloGrappling | Watching live competitions and replays | Web, FloSports app (iPhone) | Subscription (sign-up on the site) | Streams events such as IBJJF, ADCC, Polaris and Fight to Win, rather than helping you train |
| Grappling AI: BJJ Voice Notes | Logging rolls by talking instead of typing | iPhone, Mac | Free download; Standard plan $3.99 a month or $39.99 a year | Voice-first: you describe the roll and it pulls out positions and techniques |
| JitsAI (ours) | A weekly plan: one position a week, tested in live rounds until it’s proven | iPhone, Android | Website offer: $1 for 7 days, then $39 a year (app-store prices differ) | Proves what works: each technique is scored by the kind of partner it worked on, on a nine-level ladder, and is proven at 3 wins across 2 sessions |
| JuggernautBJJ | Strength and conditioning programmes for grapplers | iPhone, Android | Monthly subscription ($19.99 on the US App Store) | Gym programming, not mat technique: 2 to 6 days a week, adjusted by daily readiness answers |
| Kimura | Technique notes linked into a map of your game | iPhone, Mac | Free download; subscription $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year (free trial on the annual plan) | Links techniques into flows and draws them as a visual map |
| Marune | A training log for any martial art, with a social feed | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android | Free to start; Peak $8.99 a month or $49.99 a year (ad-free add-on $3.99 a year) | Covers many martial arts (BJJ, judo, wrestling, Muay Thai and more) and other workouts in one log |
| Submeta | Structured online courses from instructors such as Lachlan Giles | Web | Subscription (Lachlan Giles’s library: $25 a month or $239.40 a year) | Courses organised into structured lessons (“Grappling, structured.”) on the web |
What is the best BJJ app for beginners?
For beginners, pair a map of the positions with a simple weekly plan. BJJ Roadmap’s free section is a video overview of the major positions, guards, sweeps and passes. JitsAI gives you one Foundation Focus a week, starting with escapes such as Escape side control. Your coach’s classes come first either way.
- BJJ Roadmap: A beginner’s video map of how the positions fit together.
- JitsAI (ours): A weekly plan: one position a week, tested in live rounds until it’s proven.
Our 12-week BJJ system for beginners (works without an app) →
What is the best BJJ app for tracking progress or keeping a journal?
Pick by how you like to record. BJJ Notes logs every roll with per-roll stats and streaks. Grappling AI takes voice notes. Kimura links techniques into a map. Marune logs any martial art. JitsAI tracks one Focus at a time and records which kind of partner each technique worked on.
- BJJ Notes: Logging every roll and seeing the stats.
- Grappling AI: BJJ Voice Notes: Logging rolls by talking instead of typing.
- Kimura: Technique notes linked into a map of your game.
- Marune: A training log for any martial art, with a social feed.
- JitsAI (ours): A weekly plan: one position a week, tested in live rounds until it’s proven.
What is the best BJJ app for learning techniques?
Use a teaching app. BJJ Fanatics sells individual instructionals, Submeta runs subscription course libraries on the web, and BJJ Roadmap covers the core positions for beginners. JitsAI pins lessons from world champion Henrique Rezende’s 74-lesson fundamentals course to each weekly Focus, and lifetime members get its Lucas Lepri and Matheus Spirandeli seminars.
- BJJ Fanatics: Watching instructionals you buy one at a time.
- Submeta: Structured online courses from instructors such as Lachlan Giles.
- BJJ Roadmap: A beginner’s video map of how the positions fit together.
- JitsAI (ours): A weekly plan: one position a week, tested in live rounds until it’s proven.
What is the best BJJ app for competition prep?
JuggernautBJJ has a Tournament Prep strength and conditioning programme. FloGrappling streams IBJJF, ADCC and Polaris events you can study. Marune and JitsAI both keep a competition record, and JitsAI shows which techniques are proven against partners at or above your level. Your coach and hard rounds still do most of the work.
- JuggernautBJJ: Strength and conditioning programmes for grapplers.
- FloGrappling: Watching live competitions and replays.
- Marune: A training log for any martial art, with a social feed.
- JitsAI (ours): A weekly plan: one position a week, tested in live rounds until it’s proven.
What is the best free BJJ app?
For a free training log, BJJ Notes and Marune are free to use, with paid upgrades (BJJ Notes PRO, Marune Peak). For free instruction, BJJ Roadmap’s free section covers the major positions. BJJ Fanatics is a free app, but its instructionals are paid. JitsAI’s website offer is $1 for 7 days, then $39 a year.
- BJJ Notes: Logging every roll and seeing the stats.
- Marune: A training log for any martial art, with a social feed.
- BJJ Roadmap: A beginner’s video map of how the positions fit together.
What is the best BJJ app for building a system and proving what works?
JitsAI, which we make, is built for this. Each week has one Focus with lessons from world champion Henrique Rezende. A quick check-in or a voice log after class records each attempt and the partner’s size and experience, and a nine-level ladder scores it: one good night is a hit, 3 wins across 2 sessions is proven.
- JitsAI (ours): A weekly plan: one position a week, tested in live rounds until it’s proven.
The same method on paper, with a printable weekly template →
What does each BJJ app do? Verdicts, app by app
BJJ Fanatics
Verdict: BJJ Fanatics is an instructional store: a free app where you buy and watch courses one at a time. Pick it for deep study of one topic.
Key difference: A store of instructionals from named competitors and coaches, with the app as the player.
- App Store subtitle: “Learn Jiu-Jitsu Anywhere”
- Courses are sold as in-app purchases
BJJ Notes
Verdict: BJJ Notes is a BJJ training journal with per-roll stats (subs and taps per roll), streaks and weekly recaps. Pick it if you like logging every roll.
Key difference: Roll-by-roll logging with stats such as subs per roll and taps per roll, plus streaks.
- Logs rolls, drills, submissions, sweeps, takedowns, passes and taps
- Streaks, mat time, training frequency and weekly recaps
- Training goals
BJJ Roadmap
Verdict: BJJ Roadmap is Stephan Kesting’s video overview of how the BJJ positions fit together, with a free section. Pick it in your first months.
Key difference: A position-by-position overview course rather than a log or a store.
- Free: overview of the major positions, closed, open and half guard, sweeps and passes
- Paid: side mount, knee mount, rear mount and turtle, with escapes and submissions
FloGrappling
Verdict: FloGrappling is for watching BJJ competitions live and on replay, not for training. Pick it to follow IBJJF, ADCC and Polaris events.
Key difference: Streams events such as IBJJF, ADCC, Polaris and Fight to Win, rather than helping you train.
- Live events, replays and original shows
Grappling AI: BJJ Voice Notes
Verdict: Grappling AI turns spoken notes about your rolls into positions and techniques. Pick it if you’d rather talk than type.
Key difference: Voice-first: you describe the roll and it pulls out positions and techniques.
- Records and transcribes voice notes after training
- Tracks positions, submissions and sweeps over time
JitsAI (our app)
Verdict: The most modern approach: the app that proves your BJJ. JitsAI gives you one position a week with a world champion’s lessons, scores it on a nine-level ladder by the partners it worked on, and marks it proven at 3 wins across 2 sessions. Pick it if you want proof of what works, not just a log.
Key difference: Proves what works: each technique is scored by the kind of partner it worked on, on a nine-level ladder, and is proven at 3 wins across 2 sessions.
- Proves your BJJ: a nine-level ladder for every technique, from partners less experienced than you to more experienced ones, each split lighter, same weight and heavier. Land it once and it’s a hit; 3 wins across 2 sessions and it’s proven
- One Focus a week, with pinned lessons from Henrique Rezende’s 74-lesson fundamentals course. Henrique is an IBJJF No-Gi World Champion, head coach of Alliance London and was named Alliance’s best coach in 2021. Alliance has won the IBJJF World Championship team title 15 times (to 2025)
- Updated regularly, with features shaped by member feedback: 7 App Store updates between 1 Jul and 29 Sep 2026
- Lifetime members get the seminar vault: the Lucas Lepri seminar filmed in London and the Matheus Spirandeli seminar, available only in JitsAI
- A quick check-in after class, or voice logging: talk about your rounds and it pulls out each technique, whether it worked, and which training partner it was against
- A coach that reads every round you’ve logged (your passing rate, your sweeps, which partners give you trouble) and debriefs each session with what to drill next
- Share technique videos from TikTok, Instagram or YouTube: they’re filed by technique and position and resurface the week you train that move
- A scoreboard for every training partner, a competition log with medals, a weekly training schedule and a Sunday weekly review
JuggernautBJJ
Verdict: JuggernautBJJ is a strength and conditioning programme for grapplers, 2 to 6 days a week, with a tournament prep option. Pick it for the gym, not the mat.
Key difference: Gym programming, not mat technique: 2 to 6 days a week, adjusted by daily readiness answers.
- Strength, speed and power, endurance, tournament prep or lifestyle programmes
- 300+ exercises with instructional videos
Kimura
Verdict: Kimura is a technique notebook that links moves into flows and draws your game as a map. Pick it if you think in chains.
Key difference: Links techniques into flows and draws them as a visual map.
- Logs techniques and sessions
- Saves moves shared from Instagram, TikTok and YouTube
- Sends estimated calories to Apple Health
Marune
Verdict: Marune is a training log for any martial art, with a calendar, belt history, competition record and a social feed. Pick it if you cross-train.
Key difference: Covers many martial arts (BJJ, judo, wrestling, Muay Thai and more) and other workouts in one log.
- Training log, calendar and belt and stripe history
- Competition record
- Connect with training partners
Submeta
Verdict: Submeta is a web platform of structured subscription courses from instructors including Lachlan Giles. Pick it for a systematic course library.
Key difference: Courses organised into structured lessons (“Grappling, structured.”) on the web.
- Instructor libraries, including Lachlan Giles’s courses
What does JitsAI look like in use?
JitsAI is our app, so rather than describe it again, here it is: real clips from the live app.
- One Focus a week, with pinned lessons from Henrique Rezende’s 74-lesson fundamentals course.
- A nine-level ladder for every technique, from partners less experienced than you to more experienced ones, each split lighter, same weight and heavier.
- Land it once and it’s a hit; 3 wins across 2 sessions and it’s proven.
$1 for 7 days, then $39 a year.
iPhone and Android.
Pick ONE thing One position for the week: an escape, a guard, a sweep.
Test it on everyone A quick check-in after class: who each round was against, and whether it worked.
Hit, then proven Land it once and it’s a HIT. Three across two sessions and it’s PROVEN.
Know what works See what holds up, against whom, then pick your next Focus.
Do you need a BJJ app at all?
No. Showing up, asking your coach questions and rolling with lots of different partners matters more than any app. An app earns its place if it helps you remember what you learned, study the right thing, or see what actually works in live rounds. Plenty of grapplers use a notebook, and a notebook is fine.
How we checked these apps
We chose ten BJJ apps across five jobs. On 29 Sep 2026 we read each app’s own US App Store or Google Play listing, or its own website, and recorded what it says it does, which platforms it lists and its price model. Where we couldn’t confirm a detail from the app’s own pages, we left it out. We don’t rate or rank other apps, and “best for” means the job an app is built for, not a score. JitsAI is our product; its facts come from our own pages and store listings. Each app shows the date we last checked it.
Spotted something out of date? Email scott@jitsai.com and we’ll correct it.
Why I built JitsAI
I was training at Alliance, a premium experience in BJJ, and it’s truly awesome. I wanted an app that matched that level of feel. Runna was built for runners; BJJ deserved the same.
So I tried the apps on this list and plenty more. Most of the ones I tried felt like glorified note-takers to me. I logged a lot, and none of it came back to help me. I’d finish logging and think: so what? Some started with video analysis that didn’t deliver for me. Plenty lean on random YouTube videos instead of a plan, and a lot of them felt old-school.
I was never happy with any of it, so I built my own, and I’ve kept making it better since. The idea is simple: the more you log, the more JitsAI gives back. Your Focus for the week, your ladder, your record against each training partner, and a coach that reads your rounds and tells you what to drill next. A real plan, not a pile of logs.
The teaching comes from world champion Henrique Rezende, head coach of Alliance London, and lifetime members get the Lucas Lepri and Matheus Spirandeli seminars. We work with world-class athletes on the content, the tweaks and how it’s used on the mat. That’s why I’d call JitsAI the premium BJJ app. But I’m biased, so use the table above and pick what fits you.
Scott Flear, founder of JitsAI
More questions about BJJ apps
What is the best BJJ app in 2026?
It depends on the job. For logging rolls and stats, BJJ Notes, Marune, Kimura and Grappling AI are training logs. For instruction, BJJ Fanatics sells instructionals, Submeta runs subscription courses and BJJ Roadmap maps the positions. JuggernautBJJ is strength and conditioning. JitsAI, which we make, gives you one position a week and records who it worked on.
Is there a BJJ app for strength and conditioning?
Yes. JuggernautBJJ builds strength and conditioning programmes for grapplers, from 2 to 6 days a week, and adjusts them from short daily readiness questions. It is a monthly subscription.
Is there a BJJ app that works on Android?
Yes. On 29 Sep 2026, BJJ Notes, Marune, BJJ Roadmap, BJJ Fanatics, JuggernautBJJ and JitsAI all had Google Play listings. Submeta and FloGrappling also work in a web browser.
Can an app replace a BJJ coach?
No. None of these apps replaces a coach or live training. Logs help you remember, instructionals help you learn, and a weekly system helps you test. The learning still happens on the mat with a coach and training partners.