Comparison

Garmin Jr.™ vs PCT Training Centre

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Activity and sleep tracking
  • Chore management and rewards
  • Location tracking
  • Text and voice messaging
  • Family boundary alerts
  • Family challenges
Features
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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

About

PCT Training Centre

Features
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We provide competitive and recreational All-Star cheerleading teams as well as tumbling and skills classes. We also offer Summer, Winter, and PA day camps and clinics.

Screenshots

Garmin Jr.™4 screens
PCT Training Centre4 screens

Verdict

The call

Garmin Jr.™ and PCT Training Centre are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Garmin Jr.™ ships an update every 3 weeks, PCT Training Centre every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Garmin Jr.™ versus PCT Training Centre: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGarmin Jr.™PCT Training Centre
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings7.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size386 MB59 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGarminiClassPro Inc

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

PCT Training Centre

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Garmin Jr.™

No in-app purchases

None

PCT Training Centre

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Garmin Jr.™ free?
Garmin Jr.™ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PCT Training Centre free?
PCT Training Centre is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Garmin Jr.™ or PCT Training Centre have ads?
Neither Garmin Jr.™ nor PCT Training Centre shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Garmin Jr.™ or PCT Training Centre?
Garmin Jr.™ ships an update every 3 weeks, and PCT Training Centre every 2 months. Most recently, Garmin Jr.™ was updated on November 8, 2026 and PCT Training Centre on October 31, 2026.

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