Hajime! vs Karate Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hajime!
This Karate app allows users to practice and improve their techniques at home. It provides access to a comprehensive list of movements and katas, with plans for ongoing content expansion.
- Home Karate practice
- Improve technique
- List of movements
- Katas included
- New content added
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Your Karate app. Take the opportunity to improve your technique at home. Learn from the entire list of available movements and katas. We will continue to grow with new content.
Karate Buddy
This app acts as a training aid for martial arts practitioners, offering randomized drills, directional commands, and workout timing. It's designed to enhance solo training, coaching, and fitness development by providing structured guidance.
- Randomized work periods
- Directional commands
- Numbered commands (English/Japanese)
- Randomized bleep function
- Workout timer
- Solo and 1-2-1 coaching aid
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Karate Buddy is a unique training aid designed by fighters for fighters. The app will transform your Kumite. • Karate Buddy is great for solo training; it provides creativity and pushes you. • Karate Buddy is the ultimate workout timer. • It allows you to randomise your work periods; gives directional commands; number commands in both English and Japanese; and has a randomised bleep function. • Devised by WKF Champion Paul Newby and voiced by Karate Legend: Matt Price. • Karate Buddy is great for 1-2-1 coaching as it allows you to focus on the student and drills rather than counting the commands. • Karate Buddy is great for dojo training for the very same reasons, it tells the group what to do while you coach! • Karate Buddy is great for developing your fitness because you are not in charge of when you do something, you cannot rest unless Karate Buddy lets you! “I have had years where I had to train by myself, and good training partners, they’re hard to find, this is why I created Karate Buddy” - Paul Newby BKF Olympic Coach and Former WKF World Champion
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Karate Buddy at none against Hajime!'s 1. Karate Buddy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and device support (3 vs 1). Hajime!'s advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). On price and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Hajime! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Karate Buddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Karate Buddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hajime! has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Hajime! | Karate Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alberto Sanz Redondo | KUMITE COACH LTD |
Customer experience
Hajime!
Karate Buddy
In-app purchases
Hajime!
- Remove all advertisement$0.99
Karate Buddy
No in-app purchases
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