ShotokanPro vs Aikido Weapons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShotokanPro
Master Shotokan Karate katas with detailed illustrations and animations. Track your progress, adjust playback speed, and zoom in on crucial movements. Includes all 27 Shotokan katas for comprehensive study.
- All 27 Shotokan-Katas included
- Detailed illustrations and animations
- Adjustable animation speeds
- Zoomable graphics
- Progress tracking to-do list
- Portrait and landscape modes
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*** We are constantly improving our App. Thus we are thankful for every hint. *** Discover our App ShotokanPro! Have you already experienced this situation? You study a kata form, than let it slide and soon you forget the sequence. So it happens often, that the student forgets the next step in the middle of the kata form. „If I only had the chance to look the sequence up real quick, then I would master it pretty soon again.“ Even prospects and beginners can easily follow the kata sequences because of many illustrations. This App is supposed to be nothing else, than the required support and even more: • Which kata did I study last ? The list with the kata forms is build as a to-do-list. Depending on your progress, you can hook a kata off to change its order for a better overview. •The portrait mode allows you to recognize and study important details, since illustrations are bigger. • Illustrations can be zoomed in. • Two final techniques are always bound with three movements inbetween. Thus you can exactly follow how to get from one technique to another. • 3 different animation speeds and free scrolling allow you to adjust the app to the individual learning progress. • Landscape mode offers you a view of multiple graphics at one time to be able to better follow the sequences. • Six freely eligible backgrounds put you in the right training mood. • Always available legend allows you to look up the symbols really fast. This App contains all 27 Shôtôkan-Kata: Taikyoku shodan Heian shodan Heian nidan Heian sandan Heian yondan Heian godan Tekki shodan Tekki nidan Tekki sandan Bassai dai Bassai shô Kankû dai Kankû shô Empi Hangetsu Jion Jitte Ji’in Chinte Gankaku Nijû shi ho Sôchin Wankan Meikyô Gojû shi ho dai Gojû shi ho shô Unsu We wish you a lot of fun at practicing and hope that we could support you a little bit !
Aikido Weapons
Learn Aikido techniques using traditional weapons like the bokken and jo. View detailed demonstrations from multiple angles, perfect for practice anywhere. Includes a free trial.
- Bokken techniques
- Jo staff techniques
- Multi-angle video demonstrations
- On-the-go training
- Free trial available
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Learn aikido weapons work, movement by movement. Ken and jo are trained at a distance, where a few centimeters change everything. Every technique is filmed from three angles and shown again in slow motion, so the detail becomes visible. 120 TECHNIQUES, 600 VIDEOS, TWO WEAPONS • Aikiken — 42 techniques of ken work • Aiki jo — 78 techniques of jo work THREE ANGLES AND SLOW MOTION Front, side, top. Every technique is filmed from these three angles, and you switch between them with a single tap. Multiview brings them together on one screen. Slow motion replays the movement at the speed where the gesture becomes readable. FINDING A TECHNIQUE Type the name of what you are looking for. Each result shows its full path: you know where it comes from before you open it. AT THE DOJO, WITHOUT A NETWORK Videos for a module download the first time you play it. Tatami floors are rarely well covered: once the module is loaded, everything stays readable with no connection. YOUR PLAYLIST Gather the techniques you are working on right now and find them again in one gesture. Useful before a grading, or to pick up a series session after session. WHO IT IS FOR For the practitioner approaching weapons for the first time, the one preparing an examination that includes them, the teacher building a class. You come back to a technique as many times as you need. KEN AND JO The ken is a wooden sword; the jo a staff about one meter thirty long. Two weapons, two distances, two repertoires of techniques. NO SUBSCRIPTION 84 videos are free to watch, with no account to create. After that, a single payment unlocks the full version, once and for all. Take a weapon, open a technique, watch again.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Aikido Weapons at Free against ShotokanPro's $19.99. Aikido Weapons also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 50%). ShotokanPro's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.4). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Aikido Weapons is free to download; ShotokanPro costs $19.99 up front. ShotokanPro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Aikido Weapons sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShotokanPro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of ShotokanPro's written reviews are positive against 67% of Aikido Weapons's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ShotokanPro ships an update every 5 months, Aikido Weapons every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShotokanPro | Aikido Weapons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $19.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spectra-Verlag | ibudokan ltd |
Customer experience
ShotokanPro
Aikido Weapons
In-app purchases
ShotokanPro
- Enbusen$5.99
Aikido Weapons
- Aiki Jo / Suburi and Kata$3.99
- Aiki Ken / Advanced Variations$3.99
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