Frame

Frame is a BJJ training journal built on a hard truth: you forget most of what you’re taught within days. Log a session in seconds by voice, and Frame holds every technique, brings it back just before you’d forget it, and shows you — in plain data — that you’re actually improving. Built for the belts who feel stuck, so they have a reason to keep turning up.

Built against the forgetting curve

A single session throws four or five details at you — the grip, the angle, the small correction that made the sweep finally work — and within a week almost all of them are gone. Frame is built around that decay rather than despite it.

Everything you log comes back to you on a schedule: a few days later, then a week, then a month, timed to land just before you’d lose it. There’s nothing to revise and no flashcards to sit down with — the app works out what’s about to fade and puts it in front of you. Retention is the product, and it’s the one thing a notebook has never done.

Fig. 01 · Frame · how it’s stickingThe forgetting curve, measured on your own sessions: 71% recall, and the point — 2–4 weeks — where it drops below half.

The log you’ll actually keep

Everyone knows they should keep a training journal. Almost nobody does, because writing one up after an hour of getting choked is the last thing you want to do.

Frame removes the friction: talk for thirty seconds in the car — “started in closed guard, hit a scissor sweep to mount, got swept, tapped to an armbar” — and it transcribes on-device and turns it into a structured session you just confirm.

Then it reads your game back to you: the positions you live in, the subs you land, the ones that keep catching you, and hands you one or two specific things to hunt next session. A plan, not a feed.

Fig. 02 · Frame · log this, get thatThirty seconds of structured capture on the left. On the right, the same data read back a week later as a ranked shortlist — what catches you most, whether it is getting worse, and one drill for each. Nothing was typed twice.

The app wears your belt

Frame is built for the belt journey and it shows it — the whole app takes on the colour of your rank and changes with you as you’re promoted. It runs offline-first and keeps your training history yours: saved the instant you log it, private, exportable, never sold.

The goal underneath every decision is simple and hard: make the progress you can’t feel visible, so the belts who’d otherwise quit have a reason to come back for the next stripe — not more features, but more people still on the mat a year from now.

Fig. 03 · Frame · the same screen, one rank downIdentical data, white belt. Every accent in the app is derived from the rank you hold — so the interface tells you where you are before you read a word of it.

Fig. 04 · Frame · the long viewEvery promotion with the hours behind it, and what the next one costs at the pace you are actually training — the progress you cannot feel, made countable.