Garmin Jr.™ vs BIGGERFIVE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Garmin Jr.™
This app helps parents manage their child's activity, sleep, and chores when paired with a compatible wearable. It also offers communication features and location tracking for added safety.
- Activity and sleep tracking
- Chore management and rewards
- Location tracking
- Text and voice messaging
- Family boundary alerts
- Family challenges
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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
BIGGERFIVE
This app acts as your personal health steward, integrating health data recording, movement tracking, and wearable device control. It synchronizes data with Apple Health, allowing you to monitor and manage your fitness, sleep, and weight goals. Share your achievements and manage family accounts for a comprehensive health overview.
- Health data recording
- Movement track recording
- Wearable device control
- Sleep monitoring
- Activity and exercise tracking
- Customizable watch dials
- Reminder settings
- Family account management
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BIGGERFIVE is sports and health App with new features. -It integrates such functions as health data recording, movement track recording and wearable device control, acting as your exclusive health steward. - it can easily record all data from wearable devices, so that you can better master your own sports health data! After connecting your wearable device to the BIGGERFIVE App, you have access to: [Manage Health]: Record and manage the monitoring data on HR, sleep, and other data; [Record Activities]: Record your daily walking steps, calories and other activity data, and supports viewing complete records by day, week and month; [Record Exercise]: Record the data of walking, riding, running, walking and other sports, including the track, heart rate, speed and other sports data.; [Change Dial]: it supports the replacement of dial in app. After the app chooses to replace the dial, the bracelet will be updated synchronously, and more dial will be updated continuously [Set Reminder]: set alarm clock, call reminder, message notification and sedentary reminder to become your right-hand assistant in your life; [Record Sleep]: Record your sleep data, including sleep duration, deep sleep, light sleep and rapid eye movements (REM), in order to monitor and improve your sleep quality; [Record Weight]: Record your weight trends and set your weight goal, encouraging you to achieve the daily exercise goal; [Share Achievements]: If you use BIGGERFIVE App to monitor your excercises continuously, virtual medals will be awarded when you reaches milestones. You can share your weekly exercise information for interaction with your friends. [Family Account] You can bind and manage devices for your children and other family members, and you can view health and exercise data [Manager children sport] You can manager your child to use the App and paired device BIGGERFIVE App supports multiple languages, and it will support more wearable devices in the future, bringing you more wonderful experiences!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Garmin Jr.™ at 4.6 against BIGGERFIVE's 4.0. Garmin Jr.™ also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 41%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Garmin Jr.™ holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Garmin Jr.™ has 7.3K ratings behind it against 1.1K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Garmin Jr.™'s written reviews are positive against 41% of BIGGERFIVE's.
Garmin Jr.™ ships an update every 3 weeks, BIGGERFIVE every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garmin Jr.™ | BIGGERFIVE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7.3K ratings) — better | 4.0 (1.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.4% of reviews — better | 40.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.3K — better | 1.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 389 MB | 153 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Garmin | BIGGERFIVE TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED |
Customer experience
Garmin Jr.™
BIGGERFIVE
User reviews
Garmin Jr.™
From 7.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Motivating for kids
- 📊 Helpful for tracking activity and sleep
- 💰 Effective chore and reward system
- 🤝 Good for family communication
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues and syncing problems
- 🔋 Poor battery life
- 🤔 Limited game and story content
- 🔍 Lack of customization options
- 🕰️ Inaccurate activity tracking
BIGGERFIVE
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Tracks steps, heart rate, and sleep
- 👍 Good for kids, easy to use
- 🚀 Waterproof and durable
- 👍 Customizable watch faces
- 👍 Encourages physical activity
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent disconnects from app
- 🐛 Inaccurate step/sleep tracking
- 🐛 Time resets after charging
- 🐛 Login issues, can't log in
- 🔋 Battery drains quickly
Bugs and requests
Garmin Jr.™
Reported bugs
4 issues- Watch time and date resets unexpectedly
- App crashes when trying to access certain features
- Coins and rewards not syncing properly between watch and app
- Activity data not accurately recorded
Requested features
5 requests- Add GPS tracking capability
- Improve app responsiveness and stability
- Expand game and story content
- Allow more customization of chores and rewards
- Enhance sleep tracking and reporting
BIGGERFIVE
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes frequently
- Can't sync multiple devices
- Incorrect time/date display
- Bluetooth connectivity issues
- Login button remains greyed out
Requested features
5 requests- More watch face options
- Ability to set alarms/reminders
- Sync data with other fitness apps
- Parental controls to limit usage
- Add more sports/activity tracking
In-app purchases
Garmin Jr.™
No in-app purchases
BIGGERFIVE
No in-app purchases








