Bark - Parental Controls

Bark - Parental Controls

By Bark Technologies, Inc.

  • Category: Productivity
  • Release Date: 2019-09-25
  • Current Version: 5.5.1
  • Adult Rating: 12+
  • File Size: 21.81 MB
  • Developer: Bark Technologies, Inc.
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 13.4 or later.
Score: 4.2016
4.2016
From 29,578 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 help@bark.us 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

  • Doesn’t Work Without A Desktop PC

    1
    By Carmela Watson-Countz
    This is ridiculous. I signed-up, completed all the steps, only for it to tell me to sign-in on a desktop. So sad, they should’ve put that in the description.
  • Helpful

    5
    By RCashk
    Bark has been a great asset to our family. I feel that it provides a level of safety that I couldn’t do myself. Thank you, Bark!
  • Grandparent Having Much Difficulty Setting it all Up

    3
    By LnLRicn
    It looks like a great app, but there seem to be a lot of moving parts.
  • 🎀don't do this to your kids :D🎀

    1
    By KitKat1056
    Coming from a teen, this app is an excuse for helicopter parenting. It slows my WiFi down and it flags random things to my parents. I have no privacy at all and it's SOO annoying! I've had PERMISSION to download an app to help me with my school work called "Gauth" and when I have WIFI it doesn't even work! It says "Connection Failed" and know that its not the connection its the BARK APP! Not to mention "trust this computer" comes up way to many times! Like when I already put it in, it comes back up a few minutes later, SO FRICKIN ANNOYING! I know I should be thankful I even have a phone but I can't do ANYTHING without this app flagging the most random things and I get into trouble for when MY friends say things that are not even worth being flagged! For example, my friend said something about PLAYING ON ROBLOX and it got flagged! I don't even know if its the Bark app that drains my battery but all of my friends phones that DON'T have the bark app have battery that lasts SO long but within a 2 HOURS my phone is almost dead! Low power mode doesn't even help! My safari doesn't even work, it will just say "safari can't open because the link is invalid". I can't watch ANYTHING my friends send me unless I say "can you please screen record it, because of parental controls?" I find it super embarrassing that I'm the only one of my friends that has parental controls! Some of my friends don't even text me anymore since I got this app! I can't use CAPCUT, GAUTH, PINTRIST, YOUTUBE, AND ETC APPS! The only thing I can do on this frickin phone is music, camera, messages... Oh wait... messages doesn't even ALLOW me to have privacy! Just to get rid of this hellhole of a frickin app, I've done things I'm not supposed to which is finding the screentime code 3 times and then my parents getting alerted that I put it! When you track everything on our phones, kids just get even sneakier than they already are! (Like I have) My mom watches my searches because her apple account is attached to my phone and it's honestly really embarrassing that I have to switch accounts everytime I make a search that might be tagged as "inappropriate". I don't trust my parents anymore and they don't trust me because of this app, and honestly don't blame them because of the unnecessary things this app's ai tags. If you are an adult that wants your kid(s) to feel anxious, get more sneaky, or have non-stop notifications for nothing that's even bad, then download this app today! :D 🩷
  • New User Interface is Awful

    2
    By JA-nel
    The previous version of the app was so much better. And this isn’t just me not wanting to adapt, the functionality and usability is in the garbage. Nothing is clear anymore where settings are located. Huge disappointment as I love the Bark phone for my 11 year old.
  • Just frustrated

    2
    By Twalks007
    I recently signed up for bark monitoring on my son’s first phone (iPhone). It doesn’t work on popular apps like snap and TikTok (which I didn’t realize at sign up). I figured for text monitoring at least it will be good— but it barely works and I keep having to run through hours of attempts to connect his phone to my computer and then my computer has to stay on all the time and he has to “allow” the connection at random prompts with his phone passcode. I know a lot of this hassle is Apple’s fault, but this app is expensive and is basically rendered useless due to connectivity challenges. Update after developer response - they say “Once it’s connected, Bark will scan your child’s device automatically over Wi-Fi.” For the app at least this is misleading. One— it doesn’t work consistently or easily. And so far over WiFi without the phone plugged into my laptop this doesn’t work at all. It’s not as easy or seamless as they want you to believe.
  • Tested

    2
    By Daniel Kurtz
    Hey, I tested this app on my phone for fun- it barely works with Apple, mainly due to the fact that it’s nearly impossible to install - no offense- spyware (or any other type of malware) onto IOS devices. This app only works if your OS isn’t as secure as the Ben-Gurion airport, which IOS very much is.
  • Sucky if you have apple

    3
    By AliPaigeF
    I got this for my 12 year old who just got a phone. Wasn’t clear that since we have IOS I have to have it on a home computer and it will only monitor texts when it’s connected to my home wifi and the computer isn’t asleep. When I got this it said it would monitor everything. I assumed through the app on my phone and my child’s. But apparently not. And the location doesn’t update. It will tell me when he leaves the house and when he’s home but nothing else unless I ask for his location.
  • Not for everyone

    2
    By MemeG85
    I purchased this believing that I could monitor any phone but if you do not have a brand new MacBook or computer you will not be able to monitor the new iPhones. I wasted 100 dollars.
  • Grateful

    5
    By ChubbzJenkins
    It won’t be a lot im just thanking bark for actually creating something useful and worthwhile for the better of our future generations

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