Type “MMA apps” into either app store and the results are mostly UFC branded, which tells you something about how the sport gets consumed. The UFC is the top of the pyramid. Underneath it are hundreds of regional promotions running cards every weekend in casinos, ballrooms, armories and high school gyms, and those are the shows that produce the next wave of fighters. Almost none of the apps in the results will tell you where any of them are.
This guide starts with the one that does, then covers the rest of what is worth installing: records and results, streaming, training, timers and games. Every app here is real and available now. Where one has a weakness, it is noted.
FightMap: Find Local MMA Fights Near You
Regional MMA has a discovery problem. A promotion might run six shows a year, each with twelve to fifteen bouts, and market them almost entirely through the fighters’ own Instagram accounts. If you do not follow someone on the card, you never hear about it. The promoter fills the room with friends and family and hopes the walk-up crowd covers the rest.
FightMap is built to fix that. It is a fight discovery app for fans and a marketing channel for promoters, and it covers MMA alongside boxing, jiu jitsu, Muay Thai and kickboxing, amateur and professional. Open the app, allow location, and you see the cards happening around you on a map. Tap one and you get the date, venue, disciplines, number of bouts and a link to tickets.
How FightMap works for fans
The whole thing is three steps. Find fights, get tickets, show up.
Finding fights means opening the map and looking at what is near you. Filter by sport, by date, by distance or by amateur versus pro. If you only care about MMA, set it to MMA and the boxing and grappling events drop away. Traveling for work? Drop the pin on the city you will be in that weekend and see what is on.
Getting tickets happens inside the app, through the promoter directly. No third-party markups, no digging through a promotion’s Facebook page for a link that may or may not still work, no calling the venue to ask about walk-up pricing.
Showing up is the part no app can do for you, and it is the whole point. A regional MMA card in a packed ballroom has an energy that a broadcast cannot replicate. You are close enough to hear the corner shouting instructions. The fighters are people from gyms in your area. Two years from now one of them might be on a UFC prelim, and you saw them when the tickets were thirty dollars.
Browsing is free and does not require an account. Creating one lets you follow local gyms and promotions and get alerts when a new card is posted, which matters because regional shows often announce three or four weeks out and the good seats go fast.
The range of what shows up is wider than people expect. Amateur MMA sanctioned by state athletic commissions, regional pro promotions, jiu jitsu opens, Muay Thai smokers, kickboxing shows and amateur boxing all live on the same map. If you have only ever watched the sport on a screen, the first time you see how much is happening within a thirty-minute drive is usually a surprise.
How FightMap works for promoters
This is the side of the app that does not exist anywhere else.
Regional MMA promoters have the hardest marketing job in sports. The product is excellent and the audience exists, but the two rarely find each other. Social platforms bury event posts, local media does not cover the regional circuit, and the promoter ends up dependent on fighters selling tickets to their own families. FightMap gives promoters a place where the audience is already looking for exactly what they are selling.
A promoter can list an event in a few minutes with the date, venue, card and ticket link. The event appears on the map for every fan searching that area. Tickets sell directly, so the promoter keeps the customer relationship and the customer data rather than handing both to a ticketing platform. When a fighter falls off the card, which in regional MMA is closer to a certainty than a risk, the promoter pushes an update and everyone who saved the event sees it.
Over time, promoters build a following inside the app. Fans who came to the last show get notified about the next one. That turns a one-off event into a recurring audience, which is the thing every regional promotion needs and almost none of them have.
It also takes pressure off the fighters. On most regional cards the athletes are expected to sell their own tickets, which means they spend fight week chasing coworkers instead of cutting weight and resting. When the promoter has a real channel to the public, that burden eases and the fighters can focus on the fight.
Why FightMap is first on this list
Everything else below helps you follow the sport, train for it, keep time or play a game about it. FightMap is the only one that gets you into a building to watch a live MMA fight, and for a fan that is the experience the sport is built on. It has also been the hardest one to access. FightMap is available on the web at fightmap.app and is coming to the App Store and Google Play.
Fight Records, Results and Fan Scoring
Tapology
Tapology is the deepest fight database in MMA and the one most fans end up using. Fighter records, upcoming events across every major and regional promotion, bout-by-bout results and a community prediction game. The regional coverage is what makes it valuable. If a fighter on a local card has a record, Tapology usually has it. The app is functional rather than polished, and results can lag on fight night.
Sherdog
Sherdog has been around since the late nineties and its fight finder is still one of the standard references for a fighter’s record. Unlike Tapology it also produces a steady stream of news, interviews and editorial, and the forums remain one of the larger MMA communities online. The site is showing its age and the app experience trails the website, but the archive is unmatched.
Verdict MMA
Verdict MMA is the app for fight night itself. You score each round as it happens, see how the global community scored it, make picks for every bout, and climb a leaderboard against friends. It covers UFC, PFL, ONE Championship and others. If you have ever argued about a decision with the person next to you, Verdict settles it with a few thousand other opinions.
Where to Watch MMA
UFC Fight Pass
UFC Fight Pass is the UFC’s own streaming service and the largest fight library in the sport. Beyond UFC events it carries a long list of partner promotions, including regional shows, grappling events and international cards, plus the full back catalog of Pride and Strikeforce. For fans of the regional circuit it is often the only place to watch a card you could not attend.
ESPN
ESPN carries UFC events in the United States through ESPN+ and its main app, along with news, rankings and results. If you follow the UFC at the top level, this is the primary destination. Coverage of anything outside the UFC is thin.
DAZN
DAZN streams PFL events along with a heavy boxing schedule. Worth having if you follow more than one promotion, since the PFL has absorbed a large share of the fighters and events that used to be on Bellator. Pricing and regional availability shift often, so check before subscribing.
MMA Training Apps
FightCamp
FightCamp is the connected home gym for striking. A free-standing bag, punch trackers, and trainer-led workouts that count your strikes and rate your output. It started as a boxing product and has expanded into kickboxing with tracking for kicks. The catch is the hardware. Without the bag and sensors it becomes a follow-along video app, which is decent but not what makes it worth the price.
Heavy Bag Pro
Heavy Bag Pro is built specifically for bag work and covers boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai and K-1 in one app. The combination library runs past a thousand entries, with kicks, knees and elbows included rather than bolted on, and guided sessions that include warmup and cooldown. The standalone round timer works on its own if you would rather run your own session.
FightFlow
FightFlow builds live rounds that mix offense, defense, footwork and target calls with changing rhythm, so you listen and react instead of memorizing a sequence. It is the closest thing to pad work without a pad holder, and it covers boxing, kickboxing and Muay Thai.
BJJ Fanatics
BJJ Fanatics is the largest grappling instructional library available and the app is where you watch what you have bought. Courses from the best names in jiu jitsu, filterable by position, instructor and level, with offline downloads. It is a course player rather than a coach, so it suits the grappler who knows what system they want to study.
MMA Spartan Workouts
MMA Spartan Workouts is a bodyweight conditioning app with an MMA flavor. Hundreds of exercises with muscle diagrams, structured plans, calorie and weight tracking, and Apple Watch support. It will not teach you technique, but for general fight conditioning at home it is a solid, inexpensive option.
Round Timer Apps
Boxing Timer Pro
Boxing Timer Pro is free, with no ads and no subscription. Large display, real bell sounds, color-coded work and rest phases. The reaction training mode fires random audio cues mid-round, which turns a timer into a drill, and rounds can be split into segments for combo changes. Works as well for MMA and grappling rounds as it does for boxing.
Timer Plus
Timer Plus does one thing, timing intervals, and does it well. Big display, Tabata and standard round formats, saved workouts and an Apple Watch companion. A lot of gyms run this on a tablet against the wall.
MMA Games
EA Sports UFC 6
EA Sports UFC 6 landed in June with a rebuilt striking system, new grappling responsiveness, and a story mode that follows a regional prospect up to the big show. The Flow State system rewards you for fighting the way a given athlete actually fights rather than spamming the same combination. It is PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series only. If you want the licensed UFC experience, this is it.
MMA Cage Conquest
MMA Cage Conquest brings MMA to VR with kicks, clinch work and takedowns alongside punches, plus a fitness zone with structured workouts and leaderboards. Multiplayer lets you fight real opponents. Requires a Meta Quest headset, and expect to sweat.
MMA Manager 2
MMA Manager 2 is a management sim rather than a fighting game. You scout fighters, build a gym, train them across disciplines and send them into the cage, with fights that play out based on your tactical choices. Good for the fan who cares more about matchmaking and camp strategy than button timing.
Which MMA Apps to Install First
If you follow the sport, Tapology and one streaming service cover almost everything. Add Verdict for fight night. If you train, pick one coaching app and one timer and ignore the rest until you have outgrown them. If you want to play, UFC 6 on console is the obvious choice, and Cage Conquest if you have a headset.
And if you are a fan who has never been to a live regional MMA card, download FightMap and find fights near you. Regional MMA in a packed ballroom on a Saturday night is where the sport actually lives. It has been hard to find. Now there is a map.
If you promote fights, create a promoter account and list your next card. The fans are already looking.
Disclaimer: This list reflects the opinion of the author. The apps are presented in no particular order and inclusion is not a ranking.