Keep the Details
Bring sessions, photos, techniques, and reflections into one personal record you can search and revisit.
MA Journey · By PROJECT-JTH
Your Training.
Your Training.
Your Progress.
Your Journey.
A personal training journal built for martial artists. Capture what you practice, follow your progress, and keep a lasting record across the arts you train.
- Remember your techniques, sparring rounds, and reflections.
- See your consistency and the work behind each promotion.
- Keep your journal with sync, backups, and printable PDFs.
Available for iPhone and iPadAndroid in Development · Coming Soon
View existing journal data for free. Logging and editing require a subscription or eligible grandfathered lifetime access.
A Personal Record of Your Practice
MA Journey
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TrainSessions, Sparring & Reflections
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ProgressConsistency, Belts & Promotions
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CompeteMatches, Medals & Lessons
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LibraryTechniques Connected to Practice
Built Around Martial Arts
01 / Capture
02 / Reflect
03 / Preserve
Remember more than the time you spent training.
The technique that clicked. The round that exposed a gap. The months of practice behind a promotion. MA Journey helps you keep those details together and return to them as your practice grows.
See the Patterns
Review your training against weekly goals, examine your consistency, and look back at the work within each belt period.
Carry Your Journey Forward
Build a history of practice, promotions, and competitions, with backups and a printable journal to help preserve it.
Train · Sessions & Reflections
Give each session a useful record.
Capture what you worked on, who you trained with, and what you want to revisit. Your journal has room for the practical details and your own perspective.
- Log duration, session type, instructor, school, location, and tags.
- Add practiced techniques, notes, and photos.
- Record average sparring rounds or individual rounds with duration, effort, and notes.
- Search sessions and reflections when you want to find something again.
Progress · Consistency & Milestones
See the work behind the belt.
Follow your rank history and the training between promotions. Weekly goals and detailed statistics help you see how your practice adds up over time.
- Current belt or rank, time at rank, and promotion timeline.
- Custom belt systems with supported stripe and band styles.
- Training statistics within belt periods, including stripes.
- Activity heatmaps, weekly charts, and year-over-year views.
Set a Weekly Training Goal
Choose a training-minute goal and follow your progress toward it.
Understand Your Consistency
Review goal streaks, weeks hitting your goal, frequency, and averages across active weeks or calendar weeks.
Keep Progress in View
The iOS Belt Progress home screen widget shows your current rank, time at rank, training streak, and lifetime hours.
Multiple Arts · One Personal Journal
Compete
Library
Make room for every art you train.
Use the art switcher to move between the martial arts you practice. Keep their training and progression in view, with custom belt systems to reflect your rank structure.
Keep the Result and the Story Behind It
Record events, divisions, medals, and individual match details. Bring your notes, photos, and reflections alongside the result so you can review the experience over time.
- Organizing body, ruleset, Gi/No-Gi, and weight class.
- Opponent, win/loss, submission, and points per match.
- Event and match totals, W–L, podium counts, and deeper analytics.
Build a Technique Notebook Connected to Practice
Organize your personal technique reference and link techniques back to training sessions. Keep what you are learning connected to when you practiced it.
- Categories and tags to organize your techniques.
- Proficiency or confidence ratings and favorites.
- Search and filters to find the details you need.
Optional Health Context · iOS
Bring your workout data into the picture.
Link sessions to Apple Health workouts to see heart rate charts, average and maximum heart rate, and active calories alongside your training notes.
This includes workouts recorded by Apple Watch, Whoop, and other apps that write workouts to Apple Health.
Training Capacity
With permission and supporting data, morning readiness and after-training remaining capacity add context from sleep, heart rate variability, resting heart rate, and training load.
Save capacity snapshots with sessions and optionally open FitInsights for fuller analytics.
Health and Training Capacity are optional. Available insights depend on the data you allow the app to access.
Continuity & Your Records
Sync
Print
Back Up
Keep a journal you can return to.
Sync your journal across your Apple devices, keep a backup, or turn part of your journey into a document you can hold.
Your Journal Across Apple Devices
Private iCloud sync keeps journal data connected across your Apple devices. Photos live in a dedicated MA Journey album, with references synced to entries.
A Record You Can Hold
Create a PDF of your full journal, a date range, or a belt period, with statistics, chronological entries, and a technique appendix. Choose letter or square pages.
Export and Restore Your Data
Export a .majbackup file and import it with replace, merge, or restore-missing options. Safety backups precede destructive recovery operations.
A Journal Built for Your Practice
Keep the details that matter to martial artists.
MA Journey brings martial arts records and personal reflection together. Here is how that focus relates to other ways you might record your training.
| Approach | What You May Be Looking For | MA Journey’s Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Workout Tracking | A record of your exercise, time, and workout metrics. | Training records with belts, promotions, techniques, sparring, competitions, and optional Apple Health context. |
| An App for One Art | A journal focused on a particular martial art. | Multiple arts in one personal journal, with an art switcher and custom belt systems. |
| Paper or Notebooks | A personal space for training notes and reflection. | Searchable entries, linked techniques, calculated statistics, device sync, backups, and printable PDFs. |
Before You Begin
Frequently Asked Questions
Is MA Journey Free?
You can browse and view existing journal data for free. Logging new content or editing journal content requires a subscription. Eligible early purchasers retain their grandfathered lifetime access. See the App Store listing and in-app subscription options for pricing.
Is Android Available?
Android is currently in development, coming soon. MA Journey is available for iPhone and iPad. No Android release date has been announced here.
Can I Track More Than One Martial Art?
Yes. MA Journey supports multiple martial arts and an art switcher, along with custom belt systems using supported stripe and band styles.
Does My Journal Sync Across Devices?
On iPhone and iPad, MA Journey uses private iCloud sync through CloudKit for journal data across your Apple devices. Photos live in a dedicated MA Journey album, with references synced to entries.
Do I Need Apple Health or FitInsights?
Health linking and Training Capacity are optional. On iOS, you can link Apple Health workouts to your training sessions. Training Capacity uses permitted, available health data through FitInsightsEngine, with an optional link to FitInsights for fuller analytics.
Can I Print My Journal?
Yes. Create a shareable PDF of your full journal, a selected date range, or a belt period. It includes a cover, introduction, statistics, chronological entries, and a technique appendix, with letter or square page sizes.
Can I Store Organization Member IDs?
Yes. Save member numbers, issue and expiry dates, and ID photos from your camera or photo library. A never-expires option supports memberships without an expiry date. The wallet-style viewer is accessible from Train and Compete.
Can I Back Up and Restore My Journal?
Yes. MA Journey supports .majbackup export and import, with replace, merge, and restore-missing options. Safety backups are created before destructive recovery operations.
Which iPhones and iPads Are Supported?
MA Journey requires a recent iOS or iPadOS version. Check the App Store listing for the current compatibility requirements.
MA Journey
Give your training a lasting record.
Capture the sessions, preserve the milestones, and keep the lessons you want to carry into your next practice.
Available for iPhone and iPadAndroid in Development · Coming Soon
Viewing existing journal data is free. Logging and editing require a subscription or eligible grandfathered lifetime access.
