Bark - Parental Controls

4.0
6.89K reviews
500K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Bark provides families with the tools they need to raise kids in the digital age. Our comprehensive service lets you monitor content, manage screen time, and filter websites so you can get peace of mind while your child is online.

CONTENT MONITORING

Bark monitors your child’s text messages, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and social media platforms for issues like cyberbullying, suicidal ideation, adult content, sexual predators, profanity, threats of violence, and more. Parents receive alerts only when something potentially problematic occurs online. You won’t have full access to everything on your child’s phone — just the things you might need to know about.

SCREEN TIME MANAGEMENT

Families can set healthy time limits and create schedules for when their children’s devices can connect to the internet (through both cell service and Wi-Fi).

WEB FILTERING

Our web filter lets you select which websites your child can access on their devices. You can allow or block specific sites — or even whole categories like streaming services, online gaming, sexual content, and more.

BARK HOME

When you purchase Bark Home, a small device sold separately that connects to your Wi-Fi router, you can use our app to manage screen time and filter websites and apps on all of the Wi-Fi-connected devices in your home, from smart TVs and video game consoles to laptops and tablets. Bark Home requires an active Bark subscription.

PRICING

Bark, our comprehensive online safety solution, includes content monitoring, screen time management, and web filtering. Bark is $14/month — or $99 annually.

Bark Jr provides screen time management and web filtering for $5/month or $49 annually.

SETTING UP BARK

After you download the Bark app for parents and guardians, you’ll need to download the Bark for Kids app to your child’s device to enable monitoring, screen time management, and more. Visit www.bark.us/android to install it.
Updated on
Apr 4, 2024

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
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.0
6.64K reviews
Nohemi Floyd
April 14, 2024
It can be confusing to install. I can see how a person who is not tech savvy would have a hard time installing. At one point it tied to my outlook account and I got a crazy amount of alerts. The set schedules didn't work and we're confusing as well - I wish a screen alerting the child that it's "X" time would pop up like other software out there, overall I wouldn't recommend. I will probably still to the free parental controls ipads already have built in.
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
April 15, 2024
Sorry for any frustration or confusion. We'd love to offer a walkthrough or point to our many video resources to help you get setup and also enjoy the benefits of our monitoring & alerting to concerning content. Please reach out to our support team at anytime -- 💬 bark.us/contact or 📧 help@bark.us -- here to help! 🩷
Carolina Tello Zeleski
April 8, 2024
The device is a nightmare to setup. The instructional videos are inaccurate and miss critical steps. The app is messy, spammy, and difficult to manage. It's completely messed our entire setup at home and we can't wait for customer service to get back to us so we can be rid of it and never see it again. We are a family of game developers, so tech savvy, and it's amazing to us this is a product that's met quality assurance to be sold to the public.
12 people found this review helpful
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
April 8, 2024
Hi there, we're very sorry to hear this! It's certainly not the typical experience of our Bark families. Our support team can certainly offer some assistance and helpful insights at bark.us/contact. We'd love to help in any way we can! 🧡
Stephanie Grijalva
March 11, 2024
This app has worked great for the past few years for our family. I love the text monitoring without having to read every text,and the alerts to all media available. Last fall, August 2023, we started experiencing issues with the app shutting off a cess to the Internet completely. When I disable the VPN, everything works great. I have spent several hours working with tech support but the issue returns on all devices within days. It is affecting the usage and we will have to stop using this.
30 people found this review helpful
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
March 11, 2024
Sorry to hear this! It's certainly not a typical experience. We would love to gather more details and make sure all solutions have been exhausted, please connect/reconnect with our team at bark.us/contact. 🧡