Bark - Parental Controls

Bark - Parental Controls

By Bark Technologies, Inc.

  • Category: Productivity
  • Release Date: 2019-09-25
  • Current Version: 6.3.3
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 29.96 MB
  • Developer: Bark Technologies, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Score: 4.23806
4.23806
From 34,145 Ratings

Description

Bark provides families with all 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 texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and social media platforms for issues like cyberbullying, adult content, sexual predators, profanity, suicidal ideation, 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 TESTIMONIALS • "My wife and I LOVE Bark. We've had some tough but productive conversations with our 13-year-old son. It's proving to be extremely valuable." — Josh L. • “It’s just another set of protections we as parents give our kids for the digital environment (or as my 10-year-old calls it, a “cell phone seat belt”). My oldest is a 9th grader, and while I trust her, I’ve come to realize through the alerts that some of her friends aren’t truly her friends. It’s led to some amazing conversations about choosing friends wisely and recognizing toxic people. While she wasn’t for Bark at first, she’s since said she’s grateful that I saw those messages because it reaffirmed what she was feeling but didn’t know how to verbalize without sounding sensitive.” — Bark Parent • "Bark notified me that my young daughter had unknowingly revealed her phone number to strangers on Twitter. The fact that Bark notified me was impressive and led to an informative discussion with her the same day." — Jon B. • “Since Bark alerted us to the suicidal language used in the Google doc that was being used in a chat document with a friend, we have seen both a pediatrician and a licensed counselor. We are hopeful for a positive outcome. Thanks to Bark for letting us peek into our child’s mind!” — Bark Parent • “This app is a lifesaver! It has allowed us to catch so many “red flags” in the content my kids have accessed on their devices and in their interactions with friends and other people online that I wouldn’t have ever known about otherwise. The big difference between Bark and other “Parental Control” software is that Bark allows your kids to have so much more privacy. It doesn’t show you everything they do, but sends an instant alert regarding any activity that might be concerning. Highly recommended!” — Bark Parent With Bark, you can help keep your kids safe both online and in real life. Try it out for seven days absolutely free! Our Family Online Safety Specialists are standing by to help answer any questions you may have. Email [email protected] or visit help.bark.us to get answers and advice from the Bark Team. Terms of Use https://www.bark.us/terms

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Reviews

  • Notifications

    3
    By Katiedb512
    I love the app and the peace of mind but I really wish you would fix the notification settings. I constantly have the red alert and when I open the app I don't have any new notifications and the alert will not go away. It's pretty annoying.
  • Can’t Reach Customer Service

    1
    By plrg73
    I need some one to contact me from your company. My app is glitching I can’t access alerts and can’t contact support on the app. I’m super frustrated with this app, I am getting text for alerts but can’t contact support not enter the app to see the alerts and my child is able to add apps without my approval. I am super frustrated with this app it’s been an entire week that I am not able to access the app and there is no tech support phone number available at all to reach anyone. I’m super upset right now with this service and having serious regret for the money I have given to this company for very poor customer service and very poor app functionality.
  • Perpetually loading

    2
    By ✨Divine Emperor✨
    It’s super annoying because whenever I get a notification from the bark app and I click on it, it shows a perpetual loading circle and it never loads, and I have to close the app and restart it all over again to just get it to load.
  • безпонтовое приложение

    1
    By Die sind auch 11
    фигня
  • Frustrated

    1
    By RuthyJo.
    I had so many issues using this app as it does not work well with Apple phones. I canceled my plan and deleted the app, and then I realized my kids still have it on their phones, and now I can’t get back into the app unless I pay (the subscription is good until Dec). So frustrating.
  • PLEASE READ IF CONSIDERING FOR ANYONE OVER 12

    2
    By Teimh
    So, I was on a Bark phone for a while. No big deal, it kept my parents happy. The whole monitoring thing wasn’t that big of a problem for me. The problem was everything else. Alerts- my parents would get alerts for EVERYTHING. I could say that the sun was blinding or that “so-and-so gave me a headache” and they’d get a “concerning medical” something or other. My mom had the thing on the lowest possible setting, and would still get flagged for “that sucks”. Multiple times, she’d get a “bullying” alert and we’d both stare at the report trying to figure out how on earth anything in the text could be seen as rude, harmful, or offensive to anyone. Location- randomly glitched out constantly. My mom could be right next to me and somehow get an alert that I was in Arizona, even though I would clearly be scrolling instagram two feet away. The amount of “left home” alerts was insane, especially considering the fact that I would be in my bedroom down the hall. Apps- apps would be downloaded, approved by the parent device, and literally never open. Drove me and my mother nuts, especially when I needed the app for school or finances. Biggest issue- the VPN. Seriously. You’d think that a VPN would be great, but it would randomly glitch out and completely lock down my phone. I could be listening to music and all of a sudden- BAM! Everything is off. Not to mention when I switched to a different phone, everything on the old one immediately locked down. Photos, notes, contacts, accounts- GONE. Trapped behind a gray “please contact your parent device for access” the second I switched over my number. Probably would have been fine if I didn’t WANT THAT STUFF. All my photos, all my notes, all my data- locked. I don’t remember people’s phone numbers off the top of my head, and I don’t know anyone who does! TL;DR: decent at what it says it does. Download if you want a million alerts that feel like they’re reported by a seven-year-old on Roblox with a complex. Don’t keep anything important on the phone, you’ll lose it once you gain personal responsibility.
  • iOS needs to be fixed every other day

    2
    By Al Pal Wow
    It would be nice if the messages weren’t not getting monitored majority of the time. Even after syncing with the computer it doesn’t work. It just randomly decides to monitor texts for 1 day and then stops for days. What a waste of $15. I’ve had this app for 8 months and probably had monitoring for not even a full month. I’m over it. Truly want my money back. There’s got to be another app that actually works
  • Hate this so much

    1
    By ElwoodPDownd
    I am a 13 year old with Bark. I hate it so much. I understand the need to monitor your child to protect them, but seeing everything they do is invasive. My mom sees my PRIVATE business. We children need privacy.
  • Setup and Support are Terrible

    2
    By MattB_randomNumbers
    If you can get everything setup, it actually works pretty well and is very helpful. Expect to spend hours setting this up though even if you are using Barks hardware. I have the Bark Sync and 2 kids with iPhones. This should be simple but I have been trying for over an hour to just get one phone connected. And the main support is an AI chat bot. This bot can only recite the same instructions that you can find online. And if you ask for a human, you just get a non active window. I have the phones setup to sync through my Mac, but that took over a week including needing to get support on the phone to walk me though it.
  • Useless

    1
    By Hranr
    Ok I’m only 16 and this app is so dumb and stupid because me and my bf were going through a break up and it flagged my mom about ongoing peer conflict centered on my bf’s name and it tracked the fight we had and I told my best friend about it and it flagged that too it acts like I’m a little kid that doesn’t deserve privacy me and my mom’s relationship is so bad now because on this app because it tracked it and I was also really annoyed with this and I try to vent to my friends about how my mom was being a bit annoying but she made me sit though this long talk with her about everything I said why can’t I vent don’t download this app because I also don’t like how it can track who I talk to on my TikTok like oh my god why does it need to know every single friend I have and sometimes I have topic about bullying just because I need to talk to a friend not have my parents wanting to talk to me about what’s going on at school because why can’t this app just leave me alone I don’t have a good relationship with my mom so yeah and also I’m trans and of course I tell my friends but my family doesn’t like that and guess what of course it flagged that too I will never use that phone again knowing that it will just stalk me

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