Garmin Jr.™ vs MTWEAR
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
MTWEAR
This app connects to smart Bluetooth wearable devices to track daily activity, sleep, heart rate, and steps. It integrates with HealthKit to help users monitor and adjust their daily routines for better health.
- Bluetooth connectivity to smartwatches
- Daily activity tracking
- Sleep monitoring
- Heart rate detection
- Step counting
- HealthKit integration
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MTWEAR is an application used with smart bluetooth wearable device. Our APP connects to all our smart watches via Bluetooth. It detects and evaluates the users daily active data,sleep,heart rate,steps,sleep and many other functions. Integrated HealthKit to help you monitor and adjust your day to day activity and life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Garmin Jr.™ at 76% against MTWEAR's 20%. Garmin Jr.™ also leads on rating (4.6 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (7.4K vs 1). MTWEAR's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). 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 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Garmin Jr.™ has 7.4K ratings behind it against 1, 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 20% of MTWEAR's.
Garmin Jr.™ ships an update every 3 weeks, MTWEAR every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Garmin Jr.™ | MTWEAR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7.4K ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 76.4% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7.4K — better | 1 |
| 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 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 386 MB | 120 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Garmin | 刚 刘 |
Customer experience
Garmin Jr.™
MTWEAR
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
MTWEAR
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Garmin Jr.™
No in-app purchases
MTWEAR
No in-app purchases
