BudopassAll your budo in one document that's yours
Grades, stamps, attendance and seminars — dated, with the origin of each. Not a collection of photos: a budopass that counts because it can be verified, and that follows you whichever dojo you choose.
Open it and you'll know what to do
Your home puts what matters up front: the next lesson with its check-in code, how regularly you're training, and your path — grade and latest exam for each discipline. If something's about to expire, it flags it in red.
The app puts the same view in your pocket: the screen changes, not the content.
Every belt, drawn and dated
Every kyu and every dan appears with its real belt — colour, stripes, knot — the exam date and the teacher who conferred it. You can follow your progress at a glance, from your very first exam.
Grades are listed by date, most recent first: your current grade is the most recent in the discipline, not the highest. And if your dojo follows a branch — Bukiwaza for Aikido, Ki for Ki Aikido, Den for Jujutsu — its grades sit in the same list, with a diamond in place of the belt.
Coloured kyu or black dan, judo or aikido: the belt follows the discipline, not one design for everyone.
The whole path, on one scroll
For each discipline the path is a scroll. At the top, your current grade with the figures that sum up your path: exams, seminars, attendance, teachers. Below, the years on the left and the belt that changes colour at each exam.
- An exam — the grade, the date, the organisation, the teacher and their stamp.
- A season — attendance and how regularly you trained.
- A seminar — the name, the date, the organisation.
It starts from when you actually began training: the earliest of your enrolment, the date you declared and your first exam. You can read it from the beginning or from today, whichever you prefer. In a dojo's profile it's your path in that dojo; in “My budopass” you keep the whole story.
What you did before comes with you
Grades, qualifications and seminars from places where Budopass isn't used, you declare yourself, saying who issued them: they show up in your budopass straight away, marked “Declared”. Then you ask whoever issued them for ratification — even if you're no longer a member there — or ask one of your organisations for validation.
They all sit together in “Your story”: for each one you can see how many you have and how many are awaiting a reply. If a request is declined, you can read the reason and ask again.
- On each entry
- Every entry says where it comes from, with four words that never change: Issued Declared Ratified Validated. When an organisation signs, the entry carries the examiner, the panel and the teacher's stamp: not a pasted image, a traceable attestation.
- Qualifications
- Instructor, referee: they sit in your budopass just like grades. The row shows the teacher who attests the qualification and carries their stamp; tap it to open its page, where you upload the document — usually the certificate.
- History
- In “Request history” you can look back at requests already decided, with the outcome of each entry.
Who signs what, and what each word means: How it works →
Every milestone leaves proof
A grade exam gives you the grade issued by your dojo — and you can attach the diploma image and the exam photo. Then, if you like, you can tell the world: every grade can become a card to share.
Cover, details and photo gallery — you'll find it again in “All exams”.
Grade, discipline, dojo and date, in the Budopass style. Square for the feed or vertical for stories, light or dark. You create it from the grade page, with “Share the achievement”: it doesn't carry your private photos.
And seminars? You'll find them in your budopass, stamped by the teachers who taught Coming soon Events & seminars →
Attendance by phone, not by signature
In the hall there's the dojo's QR: a poster on the wall, or the teacher's screen. With the app you tap “Check-in” and scan: you're recognised straight away, nothing to type. Without the app you scan with your phone's camera: the dojo's page opens, and there you type your member code.
- When
- From 20 minutes before the lesson starts to 20 minutes after it ends, if you're enrolled in that lesson's course. If two lessons are open, you choose which.
- The member code
- Six characters. You'll find it on your home screen, in the app and on the web, or the dojo gives it to you.
- If you get it wrong
- While check-in is open you can remove an attendance entered by mistake yourself.
- “I'll be there”
- In the calendar you find the month's lessons and the closures. For each lesson you answer “I'll be there” or “I won't be there”.
- Where to find them
- Every check-in becomes your record, with nothing to fill in by hand. On your home screen the ring of “My attendance” shows how regularly you're training: green above two thirds, amber between a third and two thirds, red below. One tap and the list opens: one row per lesson, and “Absent” where you were expected and weren't.
- The period
- You choose it: season, calendar year, last 12 months or a range of your own. It applies only to you. Alongside lessons you see the number of seminars in the period.
From “My budopass” you see the lessons of all your dojos; from a dojo's profile, only its own. The other side — the one that verifies: Run a dojo →
Take a look at the dojo before you walk in
“Find an organisation” finds dojos and organisations by name, address or city, and filters them by discipline. Tap a result and its page opens: the cover, the description, the disciplines, the location on the map with directions to get there.
- Teachers
- Portrait, name, grade and the arts they sign for; “TD” marks the technical director. The biography opens with a tap on “Biography”.
- Courses and timetable
- If the dojo publishes them: the active courses with days, times, hall and teacher, grouped by discipline. Times are indicative.
- Then you decide
- “Follow” to receive its news, no approval needed. “Request to join ›” to ask to become a member: the organisation decides.
News and notifications, without the noise
The organisations you follow and those where you practise publish news and notices: they reach you in Budopass, on the web and as a notification on your phone, iPhone or Android. The essentials — a ratified grade, an accepted affiliation, an organisation's reply — always reach you; the rest is up to you, one notification type at a time.
- News from your organisations
Follow an organisation: its news reaches you, even if you're not a member. You can search and archive them, and deleting an item removes it only for you.
- “Will you be there?”, not a reminder
Two hours before the lesson, the dojo asks only those who haven't answered yet. You can withdraw your answer with a tap, and the question closes when the lesson starts. If the lesson is moved or cancelled, you're told.
Budopass writes there too. Budopass communications arrive in the same feed as your dojo's news, sent from @budopass.app; pinned ones stay on top. And a tap on the notification takes you to the right page.
Three styles, five colours, light or dark
Washi paper, sumi ink, the red of the hanko. App and web share the same system: try it, and watch the preview change.
Earth 地 · Air 風 · Water 水 · Fire 火 — the four elements of budo — and “Ash”, a warm grey.
From essential emptiness (Ma) through accent bands (Obi) to a frame full of ink (Sumi).
Italiano · English · Deutsch · Français · Español
Five languages, on the web and in the app: the one you choose follows you to your other devices.
One life, many tatami
Aikido in one dojo, judo in another: each affiliation has its own grades and its own attendance. You see them all together in “My budopass”, or one at a time by switching context at the top.
A single dojo can also have several disciplines: affiliation is requested per discipline, and if you already practise one there you can ask for another with “Ask for another discipline too”.
And if you change dojo or city, your story follows you: the budopass doesn't belong to the dojo you attend today, it's yours.
It brings them together without mixing them: grades stay with each art and never merge into a single number.