Bark - Parental Controls

Bark Technologies, Inc.

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.

Ratings and reviews

Support is not the best. We are trying to set up our child's phone and chat support is supposed to be available until midnight Eastern time. However, as soon as it says you will be connected to support, it says that support will contact you via email soon. *Update* 2 to 1 star. I would not recommend this app. The functionality is far less than you can get using the built-in iPhone or Android parental controls. Using the app is not intuitive, and cannot summarize where they have traveled.

Setup is an absolute nightmare. It keeps giving you directions to do things.... But the direction do not apply to how things are set up in the app. I have spent nearly 6 hours today trying to set up my kids phone, and I am pretty tech savvy, but it is still not monitoring her phone.... After I paid $100. Maybe I'll try customer support! Nope. There isn't any. Just a techbot thay makes me feel like it is giving me directions for a completely different app. Garbage.

Most frustrating app that I have to pay for. It's great when it works, but when it doesn't, get ready for a very frustrating 30 minutes to get everything fixed. And, it stops working for no reason. I just went through all the troubleshooting tips and finally got my son's phone to show up (again) so Bark can analyze it. Since it's an iPhone, the passcode needs to be entered. It has literally asked for the pass code SIX times then it says there's a problem analyzing the device.