Bark - Parental Controls

4.1
6.72K reviews
500K+
Downloads
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
Oct 2, 2023

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

4.1
6.48K reviews
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.
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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. 🧡
Alishia Cebula
March 13, 2024
I've had this app installed for a couple days now and I hate that you can't delete multiple alerts at a time. Because the app is so sensitive I get tons of alerts from my pre teen and I'd like to be able to keep my alerts empty but there's hundreds of alerts I have to individually delete. **Edit to respond to Bark** There's no adjusting the sensitivity, there's just turn it on or off. Also, I'm more talking about being able to delete multiple alerts at once instead of one by one.
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
March 13, 2024
Hi there! You can adjust the sensitivity of alerts. Please reach out to our support team at help@bark.us with your account info for assistance any time. 💚
Ashley Thiem-Menning
February 20, 2024
Great idea, poor product. I have had nothing but trouble with the phone itself, and we got the starter phone with no apps. They respond quickly to issues, but the issues take hours for you to deal with, not them. So customer service has rapid responses, I give them credit for that, but expect to be troubleshooting yourself with an emailed list of instructions, with up to three options depending on which screen you see. Once our contract is over, we will be done.
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
February 21, 2024
Hi Ashley! This is definitely not the experience we want you and your family to have. We would love the opportunity to connect with you so that we can gather more details and help. We would love to walk you through solutions for success. We are here for you and your family! 💙 Please connect with us at bark.us/contact or help@bark.us

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