New MMA and BJJ Apps in 2026: Launched and in Beta

Of the new MMA and BJJ apps in 2026, our pick for reading your own sparring is DARCE: it reads a whole round position by position, maps it to the second and hands you up to three fixes, each tied to the moment it happened. The other apps here do narrower or different jobs: clip analysis, BJJ match breakdowns and scouting, training journals and home striking workouts.

Training apps for martial arts used to mean a round timer and a notes app. In 2026 you can film a roll or a sparring round on your phone and get feedback on it within minutes, from several different products, at several different price points.

The catch: these apps are not interchangeable. Some analyse video. Some are journals. One is a hardware system for your garage. RollPlan still carries a beta label. If you pick the wrong category, you will pay for a tool that does not solve your problem.

We build DARCE, and we say so up front. Every claim about the other apps comes from what each product says about itself.

How to read this roundup

Before the list, three things worth knowing.

First, these apps fall into clear categories:

• Video analysis apps. You upload footage, AI returns feedback. DARCE, Fight AI, JAB AI, mmaGPT, MMA AI: Cage Coach, Ground CTRL and RollPlan all live here.
• Training journals. You log what happened, the app helps you spot patterns. Grappling AI, BJJ Notes and Marune.
• Guided workout systems. FightCamp, which is hardware plus a workout app.

Second, AI feedback on footage is only as useful as the footage. One stable angle, decent light, and a full round beats three shaky ten-second clips every time, whichever app you use.

Third, none of these tools replace your coach. One of them, mmaGPT, says that outright on its own site, and DARCE calls itself a training aid, not a coach. The honest framing for all of them is the same: they fill the gap between classes, when your coach is not watching and you are left wondering why your double-leg takedown keeps getting stuffed by a good sprawl.

Now the list, starting with our pick.

Our pick: DARCE

DARCE is a mobile AI coach for iOS and Android with four martial arts in one app: BJJ, wrestling, striking and MMA. The same four analyses also read sparring in Muay Thai, kickboxing, judo, sambo, no-gi grappling and other martial arts.

You film a round of live sparring or a roll on your phone from a single fixed angle, in landscape, and upload it. No rig, sensors or markers. A round of up to 2 minutes can be analysed, and a breakdown is usually ready one to two minutes after the upload finishes.

DARCE reads that whole round position by position, naming what happens from a vocabulary of 260+ positions, moves and finishes across the four martial arts. The breakdown has four parts: a round summary of who controlled the round and where it turned, a position timeline mapped to the second, the key moments that decided it, and up to three fixes.

Each fix is tied to the moment it happened, with one line on why. In the example below, one fix flags the head dropping under the partner at 0:45 in the clinch, and the other a turtle held without an exit at 1:09.

Every round you upload also feeds Fighter IQ, one score out of 265 from offence, defence, variety, control and, once your rounds are tracked, physicality. It is shown against your own average, so you can see whether you are climbing.

DARCE also has a technique library of 90+ techniques across BJJ, wrestling and striking, each broken into steps, key details and common mistakes, free to read on the website with no sign-up. It is a separate reference: when you want to work on a position, say an armbar from guard you keep losing halfway through, the steps are already there.

Pick DARCE if: you spar or roll and want the fullest read of a whole round, with a short list of fixes for your next session.

Other video analysis apps

Fight AI

Fight AI is an AI boxing and MMA coach app for iPhone and Android, with its own website at fightai.app. It covers five disciplines: boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling and jiu-jitsu.

The workflow is simple. You upload or record a clip, pick your martial art, and add a question about what you are working on. The app returns AI observations and suggested drills. It also has an AI coach chat and personalised training guidance, so it is not purely a footage tool.

The question prompt is a nice touch. Telling the AI "I keep getting countered off my jab" gives it a target, rather than leaving it to guess what you care about in a two-minute clip.

Pricing: free to download, with a subscription required to access its features. Its site shows a rating of 4.4 out of 5 from 100 App Store ratings.

Best fit: someone who trains across striking and grappling and wants one app with a chat coach attached.

JAB AI

JAB AI covers nine disciplines: boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, BJJ, wrestling, karate, taekwondo, judo and combat sambo. It has 10k+ downloads on Google Play and its site says it is rated 5 stars on the App Store, though the site does not give a rating count.

Its site describes three things: AI-generated video workouts, real-time voice coaching during rounds, and video analysis of your own footage. That last one works like this: you upload sparring or training footage and get back an annotated breakdown video with feedback on stance, footwork, strike mechanics, and timing and reactions.

The annotated video output matters. Reading "your stance is too square" in text is one thing. Seeing it drawn on your own footage is another. If your jab-cross falls apart under pressure, footage with annotations will show you where, not just tell you that it does.

The iPhone, iPad and Android apps are free to download, and a web version is coming soon. Free to download does not mean the analysis is free, so check the in-app pricing before you commit.

Best fit: strikers and multi-discipline athletes, especially anyone in taekwondo, judo or karate who has been ignored by most apps.

mmaGPT

mmaGPT takes a different route: no app at all. It runs in the browser at mmagpt.app on phone, tablet and desktop. You upload a 20 to 60 second clip of drills, bag work, pads or sparring. The report ranks what to fix first, shows the moment in your video where each mistake happens, and gives you a drill to fix it.

That prioritised list is the standout idea. Most hobbyists do not need ten corrections. They need to know which one correction matters most this week. mmaGPT builds the whole product around that, and its site says it takes about a minute from upload to your first fix.

It also has the longest discipline list in this roundup: 11 in total. Boxing, Muay Thai, BJJ, kickboxing, wrestling, MMA, taekwondo, judo, karate, capoeira and Krav Maga. Yes, capoeira.

Pricing is transparent. Your first analysis is free with no card. Paid plans run from US$19 a month for 8 analyses to US$49 a month for 45 analyses, and cost less billed yearly. Its site also says it is meant to support your coach, not replace them, which is the right attitude.

Best fit: anyone who wants to test AI feedback today without downloading anything or entering a card.

MMA AI: Cage Coach

Made by Doved Studio, Cage Coach stretches well beyond footage analysis. The video side: you film or import a clip and get a 0 to 100 score with frame-by-frame notes on your striking, takedowns, clinch work, transitions and ground positions.

Beyond video, its site lists multi-week training programs, drills with spoken cues, round timers, food photo logging for calories and macros, weight and fight countdown tracking, and clubs with leaderboards. There is also an AI chat coach called Coach Rico.

That breadth is the trade-off. If you want one app that covers footage, nutrition logging and fight-week weight tracking together, Cage Coach lists all three.

It is on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android. You download the app free, then choose a plan. The site does not publish plan prices, but the App Store listing says a paid plan is required and lists weekly, yearly and lifetime options, so check in-app.

Best fit: an MMA hobbyist with a fight booked who wants camp management and footage feedback in one place.

Ground CTRL: BJJ

Ground CTRL is iPhone only, listed on the App Store as "AI Roll Analysis for BJJ". It is built for grapplers, and the intake shows it. You film a roll or competition match, answer a few questions about it (outcome, starting position, gi or no-gi), upload it, and get a 7-section coaching breakdown with timestamps and drills.

The seven sections: performance summary, positional analysis, submissions, transitions, defense, recommendations, and questions to ask your coach. That last section is smart. It turns the app into a bridge back to your real coach instead of a substitute for one.

It also lists a belt-level curriculum from white to black belt, progress tracking with belt progression, and strength and conditioning programming, so it goes past pure video analysis.

Pricing: free to download, with CTRL Pro giving 10 AI roll analyses a month at US$9.99 a month or US$79.99 a year.

Best fit: an iPhone-owning BJJ athlete who rolls several times a week and wants structured, grappling-specific feedback. Android users are out of luck for now.

Live but labelled beta

RollPlan

RollPlan sits in its own spot: a BJJ match analysis web app at rollplan.ai, labelled beta and powered by Google Gemini. Do not let the beta label put you off. Anyone can sign up and use it today in a browser.

The analysis side: upload match footage and it returns a breakdown of positions, transitions and key moments, each linked to a timestamp, with coaching notes. You can pause the video and ask an AI chat about the exact frame you are looking at. Its site says a typical 5 minute match takes 2 to 4 minutes to analyse.

The scouting side is what nothing else on this list offers. RollPlan imports AJP, IBJJF or Smoothcomp brackets, or scans a long tournament stream, then writes a gameplan with a Favourable, Even or Tough verdict and a win probability for each opponent. If you compete, that is a genuinely different job than analysing your own rolls.

Pricing: the free tier gives 15 analyses a month and one active tournament with no credit card, and Pro is 5 euros a month or 50 euros a year to remove the limits. iOS and Android apps are coming soon, so for now it is browser only.

Best fit: competing grapplers. If you have a tournament on the calendar, this is the tool built for exactly that.

Journals and logs: a different job, not a lesser one

Not everyone wants a camera in the gym. Some gyms do not allow filming at all. Journal apps solve a different problem: memory and pattern recognition over months, not frame-by-frame feedback on one round.

Grappling AI

Grappling AI is a voice-powered BJJ training journal for iPhone. After training, you talk about your rolls, and the AI extracts positions, techniques and key moments from what you said.

From those logs it builds a stats dashboard showing attacking versus defending and submission success rate, a visual map of your position transitions, a technique library, and YouTube instructional suggestions matched to techniques you used.

If you say "I kept hitting the sweep but lost the pass" after every session for a month, that transition map will show you the leak faster than your own memory will. For a grappler who wants trends over time rather than video feedback, this is the purpose-built option.

BJJ Notes and Marune

Both are BJJ training journals: notes, logging and recall rather than video analysis. BJJ Notes is a straightforward place to capture what you drilled and what happened in rolls. Marune is a similar training log style product.

Writing down that you got caught in the same triangle choke three weeks running is often all the analysis you need to go fix your posture in guard. If filming is not an option at your gym, start here.

Hardware: FightCamp

FightCamp is an at-home boxing and kickboxing training system with trainer-led workouts in its app. It is built around hardware: every package includes a console and 4 trackers, and larger packages add a free-standing bag, gloves and a heart rate monitor. Packages start at $299. Its site says the app uses AI motion technology to keep you accountable, and there is a version for gyms too.

To be clear about the category: this is a home workout system, not a footage analysis tool, and it is not built for MMA or BJJ. If your problem is "I want structured striking workouts at home between gym sessions," FightCamp is for that.

How to choose in 2026

If you spar or roll and want to know what happened in your rounds, our pick is DARCE, for specific reasons:

• The whole round, read position by position, with a timeline mapped to the second and the key moments that decided it.
• Up to three fixes, each tied to its moment with one line on why.
• One phone at one fixed angle, with no rig, sensors or markers.
• Four martial arts in one app: BJJ, wrestling, striking and MMA.
• Fighter IQ, one score shown against your own average.
• The cleanest design, with the breakdown in plain language.
• A free library of 90+ techniques on the website.

For a narrower or different job, match the tool to the job:

• Want AI footage feedback today, no download: mmaGPT in the browser, first analysis free.
• BJJ-specific roll analysis on iPhone: Ground CTRL.
• Competition prep and opponent scouting: RollPlan.
• Annotated video breakdowns across nine disciplines: JAB AI.
• One app with a chat coach across striking and grappling: Fight AI.
• Fight camp management plus video scores: MMA AI: Cage Coach.
• Can't film at your gym: Grappling AI, BJJ Notes or Marune.
• Home striking workouts with gear: FightCamp.

Whatever you pick, the habit matters more than the app. Film or log consistently, work on one fix at a time, and bring the findings back to your coach.

If DARCE fits how you train, Join now.