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Bark - Parental Controls

5.3.5 for Android
4.2 | 500,000+ Installs | Reviews

Bark Technologies, Inc.

Description of Bark - Parental Controls

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.

What's New with Bark - Parental Controls 5.3.5

Fix scanning QR code sometimes hangs.

Information

  • Category:
    Parenting
  • Latest Version:
    5.3.5
  • Updated:
    2024-04-04
  • File size:
    32.7MB
  • Requirements:
    Android 5.0 or later
  • Developer:
    Bark Technologies, Inc.
  • ID:
    cm.pt.barkparent
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Reviews
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    App is trash. I have had this app for a little over 5 hours and my phone keeps crashing and freezing. I spent 15 minutes trying to get my phone to work. I have never had these kinds of problems with my phone before. I like the app itself but it makes my phone crash like crazy 😐
    2020-10-16 07:28
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    Not quite sure how to set up. Needing help but told will take hours? I've set up my kids bit not connecting to them, plus there doesn't seem to be a bark kids app?
    2020-09-30 12:01
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    I've been looking at other reviews after having trouble setting up bark on my kids accounts. People wrote to complain after days of usage that they discovered that bark only works in the United States. In reply bark says this is stated on FAQ page. But I have to say that this is not clearly the case. If Bark is to only work in the United States then why is the parenting app available in Canada? Why do you accept payments from a Canadian credit card? Google, remove this from the store!
    2020-09-18 04:01
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    We have been using the app for over a year, and I am very happy with it. Sometimes I get alerts that are nothing concerning, but it gives me options to not get those types of alerts or not get them for certain websites or conversations. It has alerted us to very concerning conversations, and it even once alerted us to a suicide concern regarding a friend of our daughter. We were able to contact the school (they were in school at the time I received the alert), and the school was able to help.
    2020-09-17 09:38
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    The system reads passwords, texts, photos, videos, web history, basically it reads everything on any device and I've gotten 3 viruses from this app.
    2020-09-12 04:45
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    Do not use if you're not in the United States! I spent hours setting up the system, only to be advised by customer service when I got stuck that it only works in the US. BARK SHOULD LET PEOPLE KNOW CLEARLY THIS BEFORE THEY DOWNLOAD THE APP. For what I've seen: setup is cumbersome but I when you've set it up it should work OK. The part that worked for me gave the content of conversations my daughter had with her friends. These conversations were flagged. I can understand some people want or even need to have this amount of control but I'm uncomfortable 'listening in' on private conversations. The customer service was OK. I received courteous responses within 24 hours.
    2020-09-03 01:47