Garmin Jr.™

4.5
9.48K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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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
Sep 25, 2023

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
8.73K reviews
Jessica Kirchen
February 25, 2024
Have had the device for 2.5 months. It does everything they claim with ease. Has fit the needs of our 9 year old. We bought some aftermarket bands to jazz it up a bit. My only wish is an alarm/beep function on the app that allows parents to "find it" quickly. Was left in an empty gym bag and took a long time to finally locate it.
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A Google user
August 25, 2019
We love the watch for our son. It's great at keeping track of his activity and chores. Have had no issues with water, it's very durable. However, the Avengers picture did ware away greatly within 6 months of him using it. The battery did last just over a year as described, and was easily replaceable. Big downside, however, the in app game used to be exciting and fun for our son to play. Then vivofit jr updated the software and it's become a boring game of just moving around a map. Disappointing!
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Owen Rader
September 27, 2023
This has been a great tool to start giving my kid some additional freedom around the neighborhood. The alarms are great to give reminders for chores, bedtime and other everyday things. Some of the downfalls are that the messaging functions could use an upgrade. Sending a voice message FROM the watch is fine, it's that when the watch RECEIVES a message that's the issue. The watch only does a single beep that isn't very loud and the vibrate function isn't super effective when the user is moving.
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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.