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

This app is a joke. So many problems, no real humans to get help from. I started the 7 day free trial, which I had to give them a credit card for. They immediately billed me for their annual subscription. After realizing this app is awful, 3 days later, I canceled it. The screen popped up and said my account would stay active for a year. That is 100% absolute fraud. I have emailed their billing department, so we'll see if they do the right thing and refund my money.

Excessively complex, missing key features. I'm a technology guy, but even so, it was a pain to get it setup on my kid's phone. After an hour or so I got it working, only to discover that it has no way of setting screen time limits (e.g., max 2 hours a day or whatever). Even the features that it has require lots of time and effort to configure - but then they can't even get basic screen time limits. I cancelled our subscription.

This app is a joke. Don't waste your time or money on it! I've paused the internet multiple times, it does nothing to the kids' phone. The timing and dates of messages are wrong, so my kid almost got in trouble twice for the same thing. Some messages also show up more than once. This app doesn't do everything it says it does! I will be canceling it as soon as I find a GOOD app to replace it.

What's new

Fix scanning QR code sometimes hangs.