Comparison

IBJJF vs Active Join

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

Head to head
About

IBJJF

This official sports federation app provides athletes with a digital membership card, displaying key details like rank and academy. It integrates with digital wallets for easy offline access and sends notifications for important account updates.

Highlights
  • Digital membership ID card
  • Athlete identification
  • Event check-in assistance
  • Apple Wallet integration
  • Offline access
  • Push notifications for updates
Features
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The official mobile app of the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) offers athletes a convenient and reliable way to access and manage their membership information. Serving as a digital version of the IBJJF membership ID card, the app displays key details such as the athlete’s name, affiliated academy, and current belt rank, making athlete identification and event check-ins more efficient while providing access to exclusive athlete benefits. To enhance this experience, the app integrates with Apple Wallet, allowing athletes to securely add their IBJJF membership card and access it anytime, even offline, for faster identification at IBJJF events. Featuring push notifications, the app actively reminds athletes about important account updates, such as upcoming membership expirations, ensuring uninterrupted access to IBJJF services and benefits. With these features, the IBJJF app provides a dynamic and connected experience that keeps athletes informed, engaged, and competition-ready.

About

Active Join

Features
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ActiveJoin — Built for BJJ. ActiveJoin is the app your academy actually needs. Class schedule, QR check-in, belt progression, training streaks, and your training partner network — all in one place. Built specifically for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, by people who train. Whether you're a practitioner chasing your next stripe, a professor running roll call, or an academy owner managing the whole operation, ActiveJoin handles it. FOR PRACTITIONERS See the full class schedule. Sign up for Fundamentals, No-Gi, Competition, Open Mat, or Kids classes with one tap. Real-time available spots. Cancel when life gets in the way. Check in with a scan. Walk in, scan the QR, you're on the roll. No paperwork, no waiting. Track your belt journey. Every stripe, every promotion, every date. From your first day on the mat to black belt — it's all there. Build your training streak. Weekly and monthly streaks track your consistency. Streak freezes protect you when you're injured or traveling — because life happens, and you shouldn't lose your progress over it. Hit milestones at 4, 8, 12, 26, and 52 consecutive weeks. See your patterns. The training heatmap shows your mat time across months. Spot the gaps. Close them. Know where you stand. Your progress dashboard shows classes this month, current streak, attendance rate, and how many classes until your next stripe. Compete with your training partners. The leaderboard ranks by mat time and streak consistency. Bring some healthy pressure to the academy. Build your network. Follow training partners. Get smart suggestions based on shared mat time. Share competition wins, promotions, and training highlights in the community feed. Manage your kids. Parents can run their children's BJJ accounts, switch views, and track their progress. Full privacy controls. Public, academy-only, or private — with granular overrides for each category. FOR PROFESSORS & COACHES Your teaching dashboard shows today's classes, upcoming sessions, and teaching stats. Run roll call live as practitioners check in. Confirm attendance, mark no-shows, add late arrivals, or bulk confirm. Track student progression and promotion readiness. FOR ACADEMY OWNERS Schedule classes (recurring or one-off), assign instructors, and manage practitioners and staff with role-based access (Owner, Admin, Professor, Employee). Configure belt progression rules per program (Gi, No-Gi, Kids) with auto-stripe awards and IBJJF-aligned defaults. Schedule and run graduation ceremonies — check off practitioners on the mat. Run billing your way: membership plans, class packs, trials, contracts, and revenue KPIs. Stripe Connect for online payments, or record offline payments manually. Set up kiosk mode for lobby self check-in (PIN, name search, QR). Moderate content with reports, warnings, and a full audit trail. Brand the app with your logo and colors. Multi-academy support: practitioners can train at multiple academies with different roles at each. WHY ACTIVEJOIN Built for BJJ, not generic fitness. Native BJJ vocabulary and workflows. Combined practitioner app and academy management in one platform. Training streaks with freezes — unique in this space. LANGUAGES English, German, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish. Auto-detects your device language. REQUIREMENTS Free to download. Full features require an active membership at a participating academy. iOS 16 or later. Train. Track. Progress.

Screenshots

IBJJF4 screens
Active Join3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Active Join at monthly against IBJJF's every 10 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

IBJJF ships an update every 10 months, Active Join monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
IBJJF versus Active Join: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIBJJFActive Join
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB61 MB
Age rating+412+
DeveloperInternational BJJ, IncTechnabit e.U.

In-app purchases

None

IBJJF

No in-app purchases

None

Active Join

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is IBJJF free?
IBJJF is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Active Join free?
Active Join is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do IBJJF or Active Join have ads?
Neither IBJJF nor Active Join shows ads.
Which is updated more often, IBJJF or Active Join?
IBJJF ships an update every 10 months, and Active Join monthly. Most recently, IBJJF was updated on October 1, 2026 and Active Join on October 2, 2026.

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