Garmin Jr.™

Garmin

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

Ratings and reviews

Great app all in all if you are looking for a way to communicate with your growing child without giving them a cell phone. Quality is great and it performs well. I only gave it a 4 because texting location gets buried and doesn't go through the normal app with the phone, it has to go through the garmin app so you have to consciously check it. Otherwise, this watch is exactly what we were looking for and the plan was more affordable than the standard carriers.

The app won't sync. I am constantly pressing the sync button on the watch, refreshing the app, completely closing out and nothing is working. I paid $69.99 (from Target) for each watch. VERY DISAPPOINTED! I wish I could return it and get my money back. These are my first Garmin products and I'm not sure if I would buy another. I DO NOT RECOMMEND this product. NOT worth the money at all.

Junk app. Good watch. App fails to connect. Very frustrating. Misses the point of syncing. Update May 20 Still terrible. I have just wasted 1 hour trying to sync this infernal vivofit to my phone. Restarted bluetooth, restarted phone, deleted watch from my bluetooth. The watch shows the wireless sign, the phone app DOES NOTHING. Save yourselves the hassle: if you just opened yours, put it back in the box, send it back for a refund. You will thank me.

What’s new

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