# Grapla: BJJ Log and Techniques — Jiu-Jitsu Training Library App

> Jiu-Jitsu Training Library App (iPhone/iPad app by CONOR LUDDY.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grapla-bjj-log-and-techniques/id6746930462 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [CONOR LUDDY](https://appshunter.io/developer/1812189044)
- Category: Sports, Health & Fitness
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.5 · 135 MB
- Languages: American English, European Portuguese
- Released: 2026-03-17
- Data updated: 2026-09-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/grapla-bjj-log-and-techniques/id6746930462/reviews.md

## What is Grapla?

Grapla is a BJJ journalling platform and technique encyclopedia for grapplers who want to understand jiu jitsu and expand their journey through it.

HUGE KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY.
Browse hundreds of positions, techniques, submissions and principles — all bio-mechanically connected by thousands of validated transitions. See how positions relate, where submissions live, and how the parts you already know fit into the bigger picture. Build up your own techniques using the Flowlab tool, using positions and submissions as steps and adding your own notes to each.

LOG YOUR TRAINING.
Record sessions with voice or text. Track coaches, training partners, and gyms. Build a complete picture of your mat time, week after week. Remember everyones names and what you've ever submitted each other with. The analytics platform will be evolving over time, so sessions you log now will have better and better insights as the app grows. Grapla will record the data on your device and your Apple account (we don't track anything, ever), and as the app evolves your data will be available for interesting insights and growth visibility. You just need to log what you can, and the app should make that easy.

TAKE NAMES.
Are you sick of forgetting peoples names? Feels awkward asking them their name again for the third time? Start saving them in the app after each session and even give them a nickname to help you remember. The app lets you track rolls with everyone you meet while training, and can save all of the positions and submissions you hit in each round, so you can build up insights at a training partner level. Save notes and styles and even their relative age/strength characteristics - younger/stronger/etc. 

BUILD YOUR VOCAB.
Describe what happened in training — Grapla matches your notes against the library and helps to recognise and find the positions and submissions you were drilling. Curate the matches, name them, and even save them as your own techniques.

ROUND TIMER.
We've just added a free round timer suitable for coaches, or players who want to throw a timer up on the phone screen and hit the mat. It can be used as a plain timer with no frills, or you can completely customise the rounds with positions, goals and reset conditions, and hook it up so it runs once or loops for all eternity. If you have an Apple Watch you can even stop/start/pause/next it from the watch too.  

WHY GRAPLA?

• 200+ position perspectives, 150+ techniques, 100+ submissions, 100+ learning principles
• New positions and submissions constantly being added - soon you will be able to add your own ones too (if we haven't already got it!)
• 3,000+ transitions, biomechanically validated
• Create your own flows and techniques with clear steps and fully editable details
• Voice-record-to-notes that understands jiu-jitsu vocabulary
• Training log with people, places, and partners
• Curated personal techniques you can compose yourself
• 100% on-device speech recognition — recordings never leave your phone
• Built for hobbyists, competitors, and coaches alike
• Works offline - no data tracking

This is being built by one guy in Dublin - it might have some bugs but it's my pet project, so it will be updated constantly. 
Thanks for trying it out.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Grapla Pro Unlock | $8.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.12.0 — 2026-09-28

Find what you need faster and explore the details behind your game.

• New Atlas search: find positions, submissions, techniques and principles in one place, with results for alternate names and typos.
• New Atlas navigation: Back, forward, random and fixed some annoying behaviour when opening items would jump around to previous pages.
• Redesigned submission pages: clearer steps, practical tips, common mistakes and dedicated safety information.
• More accurate anatomy diagrams and target filters, showing the areas each submission controls.
• Better principle connections: explore the positions and submissions where each principle applies, with duplicate concepts consolidated.
• Refreshed Submission Shuffle in FlowLab, with clearer visuals and expandable breakdowns of each chain.
• Updated position and submission content, plus layout and navigation fixes.

### 1.11.3 — 2026-09-22

Small update: Updated layout for the new Watch Remote, updated app screenshots.

### 1.11.2 — 2026-09-21

- Added remote control for Round Timer so that it can be controlled from a connected Apple Watch.
- Started the Siri integration for it so Siri can be used to control the round timer.
- Bug fix for the new Round Timer where the clock was staying stuck and not updating the seconds.

### 1.11.1 — 2026-09-14

We've just added a round timer suitable for coaches, or just for you rollers who want to throw a timer up on the phone screen and hit the mat. It can be used as a plain timer with no frills, or you can completely customise the rounds and hook it up so it runs once or loops around for all eternity. Next up we'll wire it up so it can be controlled from Apple Watch and make it more iPad friendly.

### 1.11.0 — 2026-08-03

Home Screen Widgets
- Daily Position widget — today's featured position with tactical readouts and posture icons (small/medium/large)
- Position Arsenal widget — a rotating position plus its top 3 submissions, refreshing every 6 hours
- Principle of the Day widget — small/medium/large, plus a new Base tab card
- Tap any widget to jump straight into it in the app 

Content Graph
- Dozens of positions and submissions reviewed, corrected, or improved (Butterfly Guard, Closed Guard, Crossface, Body Lock Ride, Americana, Anaconda Choke, and more)
- Duplicate/unverified entries cleaned up (Calf Crank merged, Hawaiian Necktie removed)

Other
- New "What's New" card on the Base tab
- Bug and stability fixes

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