Open Mat vs NowRise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Open Mat
Discover Jiu Jitsu open mat sessions happening in your vicinity. Easily locate training opportunities nearby to enhance your martial arts practice.
- Find Jiu Jitsu open mats
- Locate sessions near you
- Discover training opportunities
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Open Mat allows you to find Jiu Jitsu Open Mats near you.
NowRise
Train your mind with sport-specific audio sessions, journaling, and affirmations. This mental performance coach helps athletes overcome pressure, anxiety, and confidence dips with short, focused exercises.
- Sport-specific audio sessions
- Journaling for reflection
- Personalized affirmations
- Pre-game focus and visualization
- Post-game mental recovery
- Offline playback
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Train your mind like you train your body. Your mental performance coach, in your pocket. NowRise is mental performance training built for athletes. Sport-specific audio sessions, journaling, affirmations, and a progression system that rewards the mental reps your competition isn't putting in. YOUR SPORT. YOUR PRESSURE. YOUR EDGE. Not generic mindfulness. NowRise delivers guided mental training sessions tailored to your sport (basketball, soccer, tennis, and rowing) covering the exact scenarios you face: choking under pressure, spiraling after a bad play, pre-game nerves, and the confidence dip that follows a tough loss. Visualize draining the free throw with the game on the line. Find your rhythm before stepping on the court. Recover mentally after a loss. All in 3 to 5 minutes. MENTAL REPS THAT FIT YOUR SCHEDULE On the bus to the game. In the locker room before warmups. Five minutes before bed. NowRise sessions are built for how athletes actually live: short, focused, and available offline so you never miss a rep. - Pre-game focus and visualization - Post-game mental recovery - Breathing techniques for competition pressure - Sport-specific guided sessions - Background playback with lock screen controls YOUR MENTAL PLAYBOOK - Build custom pregame routines and daily checklists - Journal after games and practices to reflect on your performance - Create personal affirmations and review them daily - Personalized feed based on your sport and time of day LEVEL UP YOUR MENTAL GAME Track your streak with activity rings and level up as you go. Every session, every reflection, every rep counts. Watch your consistency compound into confidence. BUILT ON SPORT PSYCHOLOGY Mental toughness is a skill, not a gift. The same mental training techniques used by elite athletes (visualization, controlled breathing, affirmations, and focused reflection) are now in your pocket. NowRise gives you the structure to train your mindset with the same discipline you bring to practice. Get your mind right.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NowRise at 100% against Open Mat's 0%. NowRise also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). Open Mat's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NowRise holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NowRise has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Open Mat's written reviews are positive against 100% of NowRise's.
Open Mat ships an update daily, NowRise every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Open Mat | NowRise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 20 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HYPERFAZE, LLC | SquarePugs LLC |
Customer experience
Open Mat
NowRise
In-app purchases
Open Mat
No in-app purchases
NowRise
No in-app purchases









