Bark for Chromebooks

1.9
244 reviews
10K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Bark uses advanced algorithms to detect and proactively alert parents to issues your family faces online, such as bullying, predators, sexual content, and more. You can stay on top of your child's location using our real-time map or location check-in features. We also monitor social media and also block access to specific web sites and harmful categories while only alerting you to potential problems. Bark's approach saves parents valuable time and helps build trust between families.

Using our check-in feature, you can simply press a button to send your current location to your parent. This offers you peace of mind that your child has made it safely to their destination.

To do this, the Bark app will need access to photos/videos, contacts, the list of installed apps on the device, and browsing history. We use Accessibility to monitor your child's third-party message data.

Additionally, we use a VPN service to monitor your child's internet traffic for harmful content even when the app is not in use. Bark collects read and write call log data to enable contact monitoring even when the app is not in use
Updated on
Nov 19, 2025

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.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Messages, Photos and videos and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

1.8
216 reviews
Clark Scheihagen
July 8, 2025
This app will alert your parents for the tiniest things or things that aren't even inappropriate. my friend sent a video of them skating to me and it marked it as violence. i couldnt use an app i downloaded at all because of bark. And not because it wasnt allowed by my parents, but because bark caused it not to work. This product is also incompatible with Google family link, meaning if you have it it will be impossible for you to go to the app store. fix your product, devs. awful.
142 people found this review helpful
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
July 8, 2025
Our mission is to help keep kids safer, while still giving them privacy by never showing all of their data to their parents! Parents are only alerted to potential concerns. We sincerely hope that you have a discussion with your parents about what your family agrees is an appropriate and safe use of technology and the internet.
andrea jimmie
October 14, 2025
not sure what happened but it used to work but now the app makes you sign in online, which defeats the purpose of an app. it won't allow my daughter to use maps. half the time her text dont work. it was nice but not so much anymore. it makes me reconnect and set up her phone at least once a week
30 people found this review helpful
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
October 14, 2025
Hi there! Sorry to hear you are experiencing this. Please reach out to our support team at help@bark.us with your account info so we can assist you one-on-one! :)
Diego Barrios
August 15, 2025
accidentally deleted my review, responding to developer, yep, completely true, vpn makes it so my phone can't function, I don't receive messages or well... anything, I've gotten in trouble for things I didn't say or do on multiple occasions, because jokes were flagged without previous context, bypassing is easy as hell, and it disconnects after a couple days automatically without me doing anything
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
August 15, 2025
Bark shouldn’t interfere with normal device use. For support, visit bark.us/contact. Our mission is to help keep kids safer by providing parental limits and monitoring for potential concerns while respecting privacy (parents don't see everything). We encourage you to talk with your parents and agree on safe, appropriate tech use. 🩷

What’s new

New designs and branding