Garmin Jr.™

4,5
9,96K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

When paired with a compatible Garmin kid’s wearable device, the Garmin Jr.™ app¹ is a parent’s resource for keeping track of kids’ activity² and sleep, managing chores and rewards and encouraging 60 minutes of activity a day.

With an LTE-capable device, parents can also stay connected to their kids with text and voice messaging features. They can track their location on the map in the Garmin Jr.™ app, set boundaries and receive alerts related to those boundaries. Your kids will be only be able to communicate with the people you add as guardians, caregivers or friends in the app.

The Parent Helper
With the Garmin Jr.™ app on their smartphone, parents can:

• Get detailed statistics of their child’s activity and sleep.
• Celebrate personal records, including steps and active minutes.
• Assign tasks and chores and reward your kids for a job well done.
• Manage your child’s device settings, including goals, alarms, icons and display.
• Create challenges to encourage the whole family to be more active.
• Connect with other families and compete in multi-family challenges.
• Invite up to nine guardians and caregivers to your family.
• Send text and voice messages to your child’s compatible Garmin device.*
• Track your child’s location on the map.*

¹Requires app loaded on parent’s compatible smartphone
²Activity tracking accuracy: http://www.garmin.com.en-us/legal/atdisclaimer
* To use LTE features, an active subscription plan is necessary
Updated on
09 Sept 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity and App info and performance
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4,5
9,23K reviews
Georgina
11 November 2024
A great app to keep in contact with the kids (8 & 10) whilst avoiding phones (& social media!) for as long as possible. Great fitness tracker too. Just wish the messaging worked promptly 100% of the time. And would be great with a heart rate monitor, but appreciate that would require a better battery and be more costly!!
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Edgar Rodriguez
01 December 2024
Have used the app with my kids for about 2-3 weeks and has become very enjoyable as we compete in steps and active times. Being able to message them has always been reliable and the GPS was my biggest concern these days as a phone would not help if they get snatched but their GPS WILL!!!! I can live track and set boundaries in there most visited places (school, gramparents, etc) as well as notifies me when they enter and exit the places... highly recommended!!!!
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Michael Schiedler
01 January 2025
Terrible experience. You will pay for the watch then an annual subscription for 100 a year. The watch GPS worked about 30% of the time. Messaging was great for the first month then became spotty. Our child was left at sports events with no ability to text us for a ride home. Thankfully other patents had phones. Apple watch products do not seem to suffer from the same challenges. Would not recommend. Garmin support was absent.
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What's new

Thanks for using Garmin Jr.! We routinely release updates to create a better experience, improve performance and fix bugs.