Garmin Jr.™

10.9K reviews
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Rated for 3+
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Rated for 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
Keep tabs on your kid's activity, sleep and much more with Garmin Jr.
Updated on
Sep 2, 2026

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

10.1K reviews
Natasha Worrall
September 17, 2026
the watch will often tell me that my daughter is several blocks away when I know she's at school or I know she's at home. the location doesn't work well all the time but when it does work it's good. recently she can't send a text message for a receipt and send them but she's not getting them the school do not disturb time frame is not on so it doesn't make sense
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Darryl Schreiner
September 5, 2026
Poor reception. Location also rarely updates anymore. Absolutely unreliable. Better off to just get a cheap cell phone and enable tracking on it and disable everything else. Update this week did nothing.
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Kevynn Ma
July 4, 2026
The GPS location doesn't work half the time and the messages sometimes don't send, or send way later. This is ineffective if you want to actually know where your child is. Getting an error message when you try to update the location to see where your kid is from the app doesn't always work. My child's location hasn't updated for 6 hours at this point and messages are undelivered for the same span of time.
6 people found this review helpful
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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.