Marune vs Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Marune
This app helps martial artists track their training sessions, visualize their schedule, and monitor progress. Log techniques, supplementary workouts, belt promotions, and competition history. Build a personal technique library and connect with training partners.
- Training session logging
- Calendar view for schedule
- Supplementary workout tracking
- Belt progression monitoring
- Competition history recording
- Personal technique library
- Social sharing and connection
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Marune - Martial Arts Training Tracker Track your martial arts journey with Marune, the complete training companion for practitioners of all levels. TRAINING LOG Record every training session with detailed information including duration, techniques practiced, rolling time, and notes. Track your progress over time with comprehensive statistics. CALENDAR VIEW Visualize your training schedule with weekly, monthly, and yearly calendar views. See your training frequency at a glance and stay motivated. EXERCISE TRACKING Log your supplementary workouts including HIIT, yoga, resistance training, running, swimming, cycling, and more. BELT PROGRESSION Track your belt promotions and stripes across multiple martial arts disciplines. Document your journey from white belt to black belt and beyond. COMPETITION TRACKER Record your competition history including results, medals, and achievements. Analyze your competitive performance over time. TRAINING WIKI Build your personal technique library. Create and organize techniques with detailed notes and training flows. SOCIAL FEATURES Connect with training partners and friends. Share your progress, like and comment on posts, and stay motivated together. STATISTICS AND INSIGHTS Gain insights into your training habits with detailed analytics. Track total training time, sparring percentages, and identify trends in your practice. PEAK SUBSCRIPTION Unlock premium features with Peak including advanced statistics, enhanced insights, and more. Whether you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Wrestling, Muay Thai, Boxing, Karate, Taekwondo, or any other martial art, Marune helps you stay consistent and track your improvement. Download Marune today and take your training to the next level. CONTACT AND SUPPORT Email: support@marune.social Instagram: @maruneapp Terms of Service: https://marune.social/terms Privacy Policy: https://marune.social/privacy
Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu
This platform offers a comprehensive collection of Jiu Jitsu courses and individual techniques for practitioners seeking to enhance their skills. Users can explore organized course content or search for standalone techniques, creating personalized playlists of their favorite moves.
- Organized Jiu Jitsu courses
- Stand-alone technique library
- Searchable technique database
- Customizable technique playlists
- Constantly updated content
- Gi and No-Gi techniques
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Jiu Jitsu instructional platform geared towards practitioners looking to develop and improve their jiu jitsu. Two types of instructional delivery are offered. Courses and Techniques; Courses are an organized collection of techniques with more detailed explanations and overview. Techniques are stand alone positions that can be searched on and added to playlists. Application Highlights - Jiu Jitsu courses constantly being recorded and added to have a concise presentation of our main systems. - Constantly growing database of Gi and No-Gi Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Techniques. - Create and manage your own playlists of your favorite positions in our technique database.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu at 4.9 against Marune's 4.6. Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 74%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Marune's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Marune sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per year and Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 96 and 34 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Marune's written reviews are positive against 83% of Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu's.
Marune ships an update every 5 days, Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Marune | Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (96 ratings) | 4.9 (34 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.6% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Varsalus, Inc. | Brian Mahecha |
Customer experience
Marune
Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu
Bugs and requests
Marune
Reported bugs
13 issues- Keeps freezing when logging stats
- New update: 'what did you train' selector broken
- Newest update: dates and techniques appear blank
- Bug with entering location when logging training
- Hours showing up incorrectly / in negatives
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- Weight goal feature crashes app
- Text only types in all caps
- Can't log training dates or competitions from prior years
- New version defaults to old instructor
- New version UI not intuitive
- Cannot use username or upload photo on iPhone
- Cannot input training data
- Spell check/autocorrect not working in notes section
Requested features
27 requests- Go back to old version
- Add ability to sync with health app
- Add ability to copy text from notes
- Add trainings tagged in to logs
- Add day of week to training feed
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- Add categories for competitions (gi, nogi, absolutes)
- Send reminders to log training
- Allow adding different types of training (Muay Thai, boxing, etc.) separately
- Toggle between disciplines (BJJ, Muay Thai)
- See different martial arts separately
- Add 'total training' tab and individual martial art tabs
- Allow secondary sport selection
- Add reminders for specific times
- Add option to add opponent's name/gym in competition log
- Add data on nature of win/loss in competition log
- Add belts for under 16
- Sync logged sessions with health app
- Add clubs and teams information
- Add training partners to a session
- Track promotions
- Add instructor to training sessions
- Add time of day to training session
- Create/select training session categories
- Add rating out of 10 to training sessions
- Data reports on ratings and hours by type, instructor, time of day
- Option for gi+no-gi in one session
- Make app available in Portuguese
Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Marune
- Marune Ad-Free for 1 Year$3.991 Year
- Peak Monthly Subscription$8.991 Month
- Peak One Year Subscription$49.991 Year
Outer Heaven Jiu Jitsu
- Outer Heaven Member Access$9.991 Month
- Mushin BJJ Practitioner3 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Outer Heaven Member Access$99.991 Year
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- Mushin BJJ Practitioner Annual$149.991 Year
- Collar Spider Blueprint$49.99
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