Garmin Jr.™

4.4
10.4K reviews
1M+
Downloads
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 daily activity.

With a compatible LTE-capable device, parents can also stay connected to their kids with texts, voice messages or voice calls to and from the device. 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 only be able to interact with the people you add to your family in the app.

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

• Call and receive calls from your child’s compatible Garmin device.*
• Send text and voice messages to your child’s compatible device.*
• Track your child’s location on the map.*
• Get detailed statistics about your 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 trusted people to your family.
• Get notified when your child leaves or arrives at a family boundary.*
• Get notified when kids in the family request assistance from their compatible devices.
• Add and organize music on your child’s compatible device.

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
Oct 29, 2025

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
9.63K reviews
A Google user
September 7, 2019
My son loves checking his steps, telling us the time and keeping us up to date if we have a timescale (like a certain time to leave) The points are a great incentive. He doesn't play the games at the moment so when he reaches 500 points he gets a reward. I set him a morning, homework and pack up alarm. It is interesting to keep an eye on his activity and sleep. Really useful having his average bedtimes and waking times recorded. Get more out of this little fit band than we expected too! 👍
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Tania Lynn
March 9, 2021
This app is super. It makes my kids want to get up and move and run. Only issue I have is how it tracks activity. It isn't really clear how the watch does this. I guess it tracks movement. But if my girl does 30mins of cycling it doesn't equate to 30mins activity (no wrist movement). But anyway this doesn't bother me. Just an observation. My wife is convinced it detects their heart rate but as far as I can tell it can't. Some great incentives though to get them to exercise more. games are good
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Reuben Sweetman
June 21, 2022
Terrible app, poor hardware. There is no means by which to change the watch brightness which is too dim. Chores are unusable (state time due but it won't remind child unless you set an alarm, alarm won't give the chore name when it goes off?!) Sync is manual but doesn't tell you when last successful so you can't ever know if it's worked.etc etc. I can't even start with how bad this is: device is being returned on day 1 of the 14 day returns window.Parenting is hard enough without this idiocy
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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.