Competitive Landscape · September 2026
Every app below claims to help you train smarter. Collar Chokes with Notes is the only one built specifically around the moment a detail actually clicks — a timestamp inside a video you already saved — rather than a general training log or a stats dashboard.
Researched directly from each app's own pricing pages, app store listings, and one independent roundup (sources at the bottom) — not assumed.
Five apps a serious hobbyist might actually compare before choosing one. Scroll sideways on narrow screens.
| Collar Chokes with Notes Free + £9.99 one-time | Mattime $4.99/wk · $5.99/mo · $39 lifetime | BJJBuddy $5.99/mo · $39.99/yr | BJJ Notes Free + Pro (price unlisted) | Jits AI $1 trial · $39/yr | |
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| What it's built around | Notes pinned to the exact moment in a saved video | Logging hours trained & streaks | Roll/submission stats & a social leaderboard | Session journaling & technique focus goals | Voice-logged sessions with AI debriefs |
| Cheapest way to own it, forever | £9.99once — no recurring charge | $39one-time "lifetime" tier exists | $39.99every year — no one-time option | —Pro pricing not published | $39every year — no one-time option |
| Log training sessions (duration/hours) | Yesdate, duration, class type, notes, who you rolled with | Yesthis is the app's whole premise | Yesmat hours & sessions, charted over time | Partialsession logging confirmed, hours/duration unclear | Partialquick voice check-ins, not duration-focused |
| Timestamped notes on a video | Yes | Not found | Not found | Not found | Not found |
| Build-your-own drilling checklist | Yessections, progress bar, drill dates | Not found | Not found | Partialgoal-tracking, not a checklist | PartialAI suggests it, you don't build it |
| Visual map of connected techniques | Yes | Not found | Not found | Not found | Not found |
| How you install it | Add to home screen from a browser — no store | Native app — App Store / Google Play | Native app — App Store only | Native app — App Store / Google Play | Native app, or the web |
Where the real advantage is — and where it isn't.
An independent roundup of the category (GrapplingAI's 2026 guide) checked every app on this list for exactly this and came back empty-handed: none of them let you attach a note to a specific second of a saved video. That's not a minor feature gap — it's the entire premise of Collar Chokes with Notes, and right now it isn't replicated anywhere else in this comparison.
BJJBuddy and Jits AI don't offer a one-time option at all — $39.99 and $39 respectively, every single year. Mattime does have a one-time "lifetime" tier, but it's priced at $39 — roughly four times what the full version of Collar Chokes with Notes costs once, ever.
Mattime, BJJBuddy, and (with less certainty) BJJ Notes and Jits AI all let you log a training session in some form — it's genuinely table stakes for this category, not a differentiator. Collar Chokes with Notes added it to stop being the one app on this list without any way to track mat-time at all, not to claim an edge here. The timestamp-on-video note above is still the one thing nothing else on this list does.
Being an installable web app is why there's no download friction and no store approval to wait on — but it also means Collar Chokes with Notes won't show up when someone searches "BJJ app" on the App Store or Play Store, where all four competitors above live. Worth remembering: that's a real, known gap, not something this table should paper over.
BJJBuddy is closer to a fitness tracker with a leaderboard; Mattime is closer to a streak counter; Jits AI leans on AI voice logs and generated debriefs. None of them are really competing on "structured notes and drilling plans" — which is either good news (less direct competition) or a sign the "notes" angle is still underserved, depending on how you read it.
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