Comparison

MA Journey vs CombatScore

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

MA Journey

This app helps martial artists track their training, progress, and competition results. It allows users to build a personal technique library and follow their belt journey across various disciplines. Designed for dedicated practitioners, it goes beyond generic workout logging.

Highlights
  • Detailed training session logging
  • Progress tracking by martial art
  • Belt and rank history tracking
  • Competition event recording
  • Personal technique library
  • Support for multiple martial arts
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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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/

About

CombatScore

Features
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CombatScore is the AI-powered training companion for combat sports athletes. Log your sessions, track your progress, and get personalized coaching insights — free for athletes. Whether you train Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling, boxing, kickboxing, or judo, CombatScore helps you train smarter and remember every detail of your journey on the mats. Training general fitness at a combat sports gym? The app speaks your language too — strength, cardio and mobility, with no belt or gi talk. SESSION LOGGING Log a training session in one tap with quick templates, or just talk — describe your session out loud and let AI fill in the details. Capture session type, duration, rounds, roll tags, and how you felt (mood, energy, stress). Attach photos and video to remember the techniques that worked. STRENGTH & CONDITIONING Describe a lift the way you'd say it out loud — "bench 3x5 at 225, then 4 rounds of 10 kettlebell swings" — and the log fills itself in for you to check and save. Per-exercise set tracking without tapping through menus. AI COACHING — 4 MODES Get personalized advice from your AI coach across Technique, Nutrition, Strength & Conditioning, and Mobility. The coach knows your training history and adapts to your rank, your goals, and the way you train. Start with 20 free messages, then 10 more every week. TRAINING ANALYTICS Track streaks, mat time, submission rates, and your Combat Score across multiple dimensions on a radar chart. Get adaptive weekly training plans plus AI-generated game plans built around your goals. COMPETITION & GOALS Log competitions with color-coded result badges. Set countdowns to your next tournament, target dates for your next belt, and technique focus goals. Watch your rank progression fill in with milestone badges as you level up. NUTRITION & HEALTH Log meals in plain language and get real numbers — food is matched against the USDA nutrition database instead of being estimated, with a per-item breakdown you can correct. Full macro and micronutrient analysis, plus injury logging with severity and recovery status and body composition tracked over time. JOIN YOUR GYM Enter your gym code to unlock your gym's challenges, curriculum, class schedule, and direct feedback from your coaches. Stay connected to your team between sessions. FOR GYM OWNERS & COACHES Run your whole academy from one place — a branded website, class scheduling, member management, waivers, billing, and AI coaching tools for your athletes. WORKS OFFLINE Your sessions are stored on your device and sync to the cloud automatically when you're back online. Train anywhere — never lose a log. Built by martial artists, for martial artists. Free for athletes.

Screenshots

MA Journey4 screens
CombatScore4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CombatScore at none against MA Journey's 2. CombatScore also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.6). MA Journey's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. MA Journey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. CombatScore asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MA Journey ships an update weekly, CombatScore every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
MA Journey versus CombatScore: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMA JourneyCombatScore
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB64 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJesse HartFour13 Studios LLC

In-app purchases

2 purchases

MA Journey

Subscriptions1
  • MA Journey Premium (Monthly)14 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Lifetime License$79.99
None

CombatScore

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MA Journey free?
MA Journey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CombatScore free?
CombatScore is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MA Journey or CombatScore have ads?
Neither MA Journey nor CombatScore shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MA Journey or CombatScore?
MA Journey ships an update weekly, and CombatScore every 3 weeks. Most recently, MA Journey was updated on November 4, 2026 and CombatScore on November 5, 2026.

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