Comparison

Grapla vs SubmitKit

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

Head to head
About

Grapla

Features
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Grapla is a BJJ journalling platform and technique encyclopedia for grapplers who want to understand jiu jitsu and expand their journey through it. HUGE KNOWLEDGE LIBRARY. Browse hundreds of positions, techniques, submissions and principles — all bio-mechanically connected by thousands of validated transitions. See how positions relate, where submissions live, and how the parts you already know fit into the bigger picture. Build up your own techniques using the Flowlab tool, using positions and submissions as steps and adding your own notes to each. LOG YOUR TRAINING. Record sessions with voice or text. Track coaches, training partners, and gyms. Build a complete picture of your mat time, week after week. Remember everyones names and what you've ever submitted each other with. The analytics platform will be evolving over time, so sessions you log now will have better and better insights as the app grows. Grapla will record the data on your device and your Apple account (we don't track anything, ever), and as the app evolves your data will be available for interesting insights and growth visibility. You just need to log what you can, and the app should make that easy. TAKE NAMES. Are you sick of forgetting peoples names? Feels awkward asking them their name again for the third time? Start saving them in the app after each session and even give them a nickname to help you remember. The app lets you track rolls with everyone you meet while training, and can save all of the positions and submissions you hit in each round, so you can build up insights at a training partner level. Save notes and styles and even their relative age/strength characteristics - younger/stronger/etc. BUILD YOUR VOCAB. Describe what happened in training — Grapla matches your notes against the library and helps to recognise and find the positions and submissions you were drilling. Curate the matches, name them, and even save them as your own techniques. ROUND TIMER. We've just added a free round timer suitable for coaches, or players who want to throw a timer up on the phone screen and hit the mat. It can be used as a plain timer with no frills, or you can completely customise the rounds with positions, goals and reset conditions, and hook it up so it runs once or loops for all eternity. If you have an Apple Watch you can even stop/start/pause/next it from the watch too. WHY GRAPLA? • 200+ position perspectives, 150+ techniques, 100+ submissions, 100+ learning principles • New positions and submissions constantly being added - soon you will be able to add your own ones too (if we haven't already got it!) • 3,000+ transitions, biomechanically validated • Create your own flows and techniques with clear steps and fully editable details • Voice-record-to-notes that understands jiu-jitsu vocabulary • Training log with people, places, and partners • Curated personal techniques you can compose yourself • 100% on-device speech recognition — recordings never leave your phone • Built for hobbyists, competitors, and coaches alike • Works offline - no data tracking This is being built by one guy in Dublin - it might have some bugs but it's my pet project, so it will be updated constantly. Thanks for trying it out.

About

SubmitKit

Easily save and organize BJJ technique videos from social media into a personal library. AI automatically tags each technique, allowing for quick searching and filtering to build and improve your grappling game.

Highlights
  • Import videos from Instagram and Facebook
  • AI auto-tagging of techniques
  • Full-text search of library
  • Filter by technique tags
  • Track drilled techniques
  • Build personalized BJJ game
Features
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You save the video. Then it disappears. Buried in Instagram saves. Lost in a folder you’ll never open. Gone by the time you actually need it. SubmitKit fixes that. In a few taps, you can import any BJJ technique video from Instagram or Facebook directly into your own personal library. No more scrolling back through months of saved posts. No more screenshot folders. No more forgetting that sweep you were obsessed with for a week. IMPORT IN SECONDS See a technique you love? Tap share, select SubmitKit, and open the app. Your video is in your library in seconds, tagged and ready whenever you are. AI TAGS EVERY TECHNIQUE AUTOMATICALLY You don’t have to organise anything. SubmitKit’s AI reads each video and tags it instantly — by technique type, position, gi or no-gi, and difficulty level. Every technique lands exactly where it belongs, without you lifting a finger. SEARCH YOUR ENTIRE LIBRARY Looking for everything you’ve saved from closed guard? Filter by position. Want no-gi submissions only? One tap. SubmitKit turns your growing collection into something you can actually navigate and use. BUILD YOUR GAME BJJ rewards people who know their game. Not a little of everything — a deep, connected set of techniques that work together. SubmitKit is where you build that. Import the techniques that suit your body type, your style, your goals. Review them before training. Track what you’ve drilled. Watch your game take shape. Whether you’ve just stepped on the mat for the first time or you’ve been training for a few years and want to get serious about your development — SubmitKit gives you a system. WHAT YOU GET • Import technique videos from Instagram and Facebook • AI auto-tagging by type, position, gi/no-gi, and difficulty • Full-text search across your entire library • Filter by any combination of tags • Mark techniques as drilled to track your progress • Clean, fast, dark interface built for grapplers 7-DAY FREE TRIAL Start your free 7-day trial when you’re ready — explore the full app, import as many techniques as you want, and see exactly what SubmitKit does for your game before you spend a cent. After your trial, SubmitKit is $6.99/month or save with an annual plan. Build Your Game. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

Grapla and SubmitKit are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Grapla sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SubmitKit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Grapla versus SubmitKit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGraplaSubmitKit
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size222 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCONOR LUDDYJAYCO LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Grapla

One-time1
  • Grapla Pro Unlock$8.99
2 purchases

SubmitKit

Subscriptions2
  • SubmitKit Pro7 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • SubmitKit7 Days trial$47.991 Year

Questions

Is Grapla free?
Grapla is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SubmitKit free?
SubmitKit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grapla or SubmitKit have ads?
Neither Grapla nor SubmitKit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grapla or SubmitKit?
Grapla ships an update weekly, and SubmitKit weekly. Most recently, Grapla was updated on November 5, 2026 and SubmitKit on November 5, 2026.

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