# MA Journey — Your Martial Arts Journal

> Digital journal for martial artists to track, analyze, and evolve training. (iPhone/iPad app by Jesse Hart.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ma-journey/id6738790619 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Jesse Hart](https://appshunter.io/developer/1782347815)
- Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases (on sale, was $19.99)
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.6 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-01-02
- Data updated: 2026-08-21
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ma-journey/id6738790619/reviews.md

## What is MA Journey?

MA Journey is a training journal built for martial artists: from white belt to black belt and every step between. Designed for martial artists who want to remember the work, understand the progress, and keep the journey with them.

Track your training, reflect on your progress, follow your journey, record competition results, and build a personal technique library across Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, and other martial arts.

This is not a generic workout tracker. MA Journey is built around the way martial artists actually train: classes, open mats, private lessons, seminars, sparring rounds, belt promotions, stripes, competition matches, instructors, schools, techniques, reflections, and long-term progress over years.

TRAIN WITH CONTINUITY
- Log detailed training sessions with date, duration, session type, Gi or No-Gi, instructor, location, school, tags, techniques practiced, sparring rounds, effort level, notes, sleep, and photo attachments.
- Add post-training reflections, guided journal entries, and longer self-discovery notes so your training history becomes more than a list of workouts. Search across sessions and reflections to revisit lessons, patterns, and milestones.

TRACK YOUR MARTIAL ARTS PROGRESS
- View your progress by martial art with stats for sessions, training hours, weekly averages, techniques, streaks, activity patterns, instructors, locations, and more.
- Filter your progress by 30 days, 90 days, 1 year, or all time. Set weekly training goals for each art and review your consistency over time with charts, heatmaps, and detailed statistics.

FOLLOW YOUR BELT JOURNEY
- MA Journey includes deep belt and rank tracking for martial artists who want to preserve their promotion history.
- Track your current rank, promotion timeline, time at each belt, and belt-period statistics. Compare how you trained between promotions, such as your time at white belt, blue belt, or since your most recent stripe.
- Rank tracking can be enabled or disabled per martial art, so you can still log full training analytics for arts where belts are not part of your journey.

COMPETE WITH BETTER RECORDS
- Record competition events, dates, locations, rulesets, Gi or No-Gi format, divisions, weight classes, results, and match-by-match details.
- Track opponents, wins, losses, submissions, points, notes, reference links, and post-event reflections. 
- Review stats, match history, and podium results over time.

BUILD YOUR TECHNIQUE LIBRARY
- Create a personal martial arts technique library organized by category, tags, proficiency, confidence, and favorites.
- Link techniques directly to training sessions so you can see what you practiced, when you practiced it, and how your understanding develops over time.

SUPPORT FOR MULTIPLE MARTIAL ARTS
Train more than one discipline? MA Journey supports multiple martial arts in one journal.

APPLE HEALTH INTEGRATION
- Connect training sessions with workouts from Apple Health, including Apple Watch and other supported fitness sources.
- View heart rate and active energy for linked workouts, and include wearable training data alongside your martial arts journal.

SYNC, BACKUP, AND OWN YOUR HISTORY
- MA Journey supports iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad using a private CloudKit container.
- Your training history matters. Export manual backups, import backups, merge data, restore missing entries, and protect your journal with safety snapshots
- Export your data as a formatted PDF Book/Report

FREE TO VIEW, PREMIUM TO LOG - START WITH A FREE TRIAL
MA Journey Premium is an auto-renewable monthly subscription that unlocks the ability to log and edit training sessions, reflections, promotions, competitions, and techniques. Subscription length: 1 month. Price is shown in the app before purchase. New users get a 14-day free trial.

Privacy Policy: https://projectjth.com/multi-purpose
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Track training sessions and details
- Log reflection and self-discovery entries
- Log promotions and visualize journey
- View statistics about training sessions
- Search and locate information quickly
- Log competitions with match details
- Build a technique library

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| MA Journey Premium (Monthly) | $2.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime License | $79.99 | one-time |



## Frequently asked questions about MA Journey

### What is MA Journey?

MA Journey is a digital journal designed for martial artists to track their training sessions, log reflections, record promotions, and analyze their progress. It helps users visualize their journey and maintain motivation.

### Does MA Journey have ads?

No, MA Journey does not contain advertisements. It is a paid application that offers an ad-free experience for users.

### What devices is MA Journey available on?

MA Journey is available on iPhone and iPad devices. It is designed to be used on Apple's mobile and tablet platforms.

### How much does MA Journey cost?

MA Journey is a paid application priced at $19.99. This one-time purchase grants access to all its features for tracking your martial arts journey.

### Can I export my data from MA Journey?

Yes, MA Journey allows you to export your data to a file. This ensures you can keep a backup or transfer your information if you choose to use other tools in the future.

### Does MA Journey require an account to use?

No, MA Journey does not require any account setup to begin using it. Your training data remains private and stored directly on your device.

### How often is MA Journey updated?

The latest version of MA Journey is 2.1.3, which was last updated on January 2, 2026. Updates are released periodically to improve functionality and add new features.

### What is the age rating for MA Journey?

MA Journey has an age rating of 4+. This indicates it is suitable for users of all ages, with no mature content or themes.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.3.0 — 2026-08-20

This version expands the ability to log multiple sparring rounds of differing durations on training sessions, or you can continue to use the average overall duration like before. Logging individual rounds allows you the flexibility to add per round notes as well, and rounds (including the old average) have a little more granularity in durations that you can choose instead of being confined to whole minutes only (rule is 30 seconds to 5 minutes in 15 second intervals, then everything above 5 minutes in 1 minute intervals up to 90 minutes).

### 3.2.5 — 2026-08-13

Tweaks to the FitInsights Engine and minor performance improvements. This bump is mostly to keep FitInsights and MA Journey on the same public version of the FitInsights Engine

### 3.2.0 — 2026-07-29

FitInsights Engine Integration!

Now on training sessions you can see a basic snapshot of your morning readiness and after-session impact leveraging the FitInsights Engine from the FitInsights App, now also available on the App Store!

### 3.1.2 — 2026-07-10

MA Journey has been completely rebuilt from the ground up.

This version introduces a new four-tab experience for Train, Progress, Compete, and Library, with deeper martial arts journaling, multi-art support, rank tracking, belt-period statistics, competition logging, technique management, iCloud sync, Apple Health integration, manual backup and restore, and a more complete iPhone and iPad experience.

New in this version:
• Completely redesigned native iOS and iPadOS app
• Multi-art support for BJJ, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, and custom martial arts
• Detailed training session logging with tags, instructors, locations, schools, techniques, sparring rounds, notes, photos, and reflections
• New Progress tab with training stats, weekly goals, heatmaps, streaks, charts, and detailed analytics
• Deep belt and rank journey tracking with promotion timelines, belt visuals, stripes, custom belt systems, and belt-period statistics
• New Compete tab for competition events, medals, divisions, rulesets, match details, opponents, results, submissions, points, photos, links, and reflection notes
• New technique Library with categories, tags, confidence, proficiency, favorites, search, and session linking
• Apple Health workout linking with heart rate and active energy metrics
• iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad
• Home screen belt progress widget
• Manual backup export and import with merge and recovery options
• PDF Report/Book Exports
• Legacy v1 migration support
• New freemium access model: view your full history for free, with Premium required to create or edit entries
• Lifetime edit access for eligible legacy users

This is the biggest MA Journey update yet, built to better support long-term martial artists from the first class to the next promotion and beyond.

### 3.1.1 — 2026-07-09

MA Journey has been completely rebuilt from the ground up.

This version introduces a new four-tab experience for Train, Progress, Compete, and Library, with deeper martial arts journaling, multi-art support, rank tracking, belt-period statistics, competition logging, technique management, iCloud sync, Apple Health integration, manual backup and restore, and a more complete iPhone and iPad experience.

New in this version:
• Completely redesigned native iOS and iPadOS app
• Multi-art support for BJJ, Judo, Karate, Taekwondo, and custom martial arts
• Detailed training session logging with tags, instructors, locations, schools, techniques, sparring rounds, notes, photos, and reflections
• New Progress tab with training stats, weekly goals, heatmaps, streaks, charts, and detailed analytics
• Deep belt and rank journey tracking with promotion timelines, belt visuals, stripes, custom belt systems, and belt-period statistics
• New Compete tab for competition events, medals, divisions, rulesets, match details, opponents, results, submissions, points, photos, links, and reflection notes
• New technique Library with categories, tags, confidence, proficiency, favorites, search, and session linking
• Apple Health workout linking with heart rate and active energy metrics
• iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad
• Home screen belt progress widget
• Manual backup export and import with merge and recovery options
• PDF Report/Book Exports
• Legacy v1 migration support
• New freemium access model: view your full history for free, with Premium required to create or edit entries
• Lifetime edit access for eligible legacy users

This is the biggest MA Journey update yet, built to better support long-term martial artists from the first class to the next promotion and beyond.

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## More apps by Jesse Hart

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All apps by Jesse Hart: https://appshunter.io/developer/1782347815

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