Bark - Parental Controls

4.0
6.95K 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 childā€™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 wonā€™t have full access to everything on your childā€™s phone ā€” just the things you might need to know about.

SCREEN TIME MANAGEMENT

Families can set healthy time limits and create schedules for when their childrenā€™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 ā€” 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 ā€” 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, youā€™ll need to download the Bark for Kids app to your childā€™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
6.7K reviews
Veronica Patt
April 23, 2024
UPDATE: Trying this app again and all I get are nonstop "(your child) has account issues that need to be fixed" messages. The app says devices are connected but I hardly get alerts. And if a device is an iPhone, forget about it. $14/m for all these issues? I can't even sign up for the free trial as my unexpired cards keep coming back as expired. If the system doesn't even work when starting a subscription then there isn't much promise for the rest of the app.
15 people found this review helpful
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
July 11, 2023
Hi Veronica! This certainly doesn't sound typical. Please connect with us at help@bark.us or bark.us/contact so we can investigate and best assist you quickly. šŸ’™
Kendra West
April 27, 2024
The service is a valuable tool for parents, when it works. Unfortunately it usually doesn't. It loses connection with my son's phone and computer on a near daily basis and this is the second time we've had this occur in two years with different devices. We have updated, troubleshot, and reinstalled things repeatedly, and it still has the same problems. We may try the service again pending more positive user reviews that don't reflect similar problems to what we keep encountering.
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Bark Technologies, Inc.
April 27, 2024
Hi Kendra. Our support team is always happy to help. Please reach out at help@bark.us with your account info if you have any questions or need assistance. šŸ’š
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.
33 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. šŸ§”