Bark is the affordable, award-winning dashboard that allows parents to proactively monitor text messages, emails, and 24 different social networks for potential safety concerns, saving busy parents time and providing peace of mind.
Bark is the affordable, award-winning dashboard that allows parents to proactively monitor text messages, emails, and 24 different social networks for potential safety concerns, saving busy parents time and providing peace of mind.
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Over 3.5 Million Children Covered
With Bark, you’ll get automatic alerts to signs of cyberbullying, depression, online predators, adult content, and more.
Bark covers text messaging, YouTube, email, and social media platforms and apps -- 4x more than any other child monitoring platform. Click here for an extensive overview of what Bark monitors.
Bark tracks conversations and content on Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, GroupMe, and more.
Bark works with iOS and Android to search through texts, photos, and videos for concerning interactions.
Monitor emails from Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Comcast, and AOL for harmful content.
Bark looks for activity that may indicate online predators, adult content, sexting, cyberbullying, drug use, suicidal thoughts, and more.
Get automatic alerts when Bark detects potential issues, along with expert recommendations from child psychologists for addressing them.
Bark saves you from manually monitoring your child's activities, respecting your time and your child's privacy by only surfacing potential concerns.
How it Works
Instead, Bark was created by parents, for parents to offer a better, easier, and more effective way to help keep children safe online.
Created in collaboration with child psychologists, youth advisors, digital media experts, and law enforcement professionals, Bark delivers a research-backed, kid-friendly solution for safeguarding families as technology changes how and where we communicate.
Bark has won awards from The National Parenting Center, Mom’s Choice Awards, and National Parenting Product Awards.
“We installed this today on our daughter’s phone and were immediately glad we did. It notified us of sexual content and even cyberbullying. THANK YOU!! I feel a bit better about my daughter’s safety knowing her actions online are completely monitored. We talk to her regularly about the dangers of online activity but this is another, BIG, level of comfort for me.”
"Bark [is] the best $9 I spend every month. My daughter was cyberbullied a few months ago and it’s easier to monitor any concerns without totally invading her privacy. I only get notifications if there are items of concern (sex, depression, bullying, profanity, etc.) Totally worth it!"
“This is a wonderful app that has done so much for our us now that our son is in high school. You don’t know what you don’t know! Bark is an enormous help in this regard. I have been recommending the app to anyone who will listen to me.”
"Brilliant & simple way to help keep my kids safer online."
"I can’t say for sure that Bark is the reason this little girl is still with us, but I’m so grateful for this service."
"I’ve found that I see glimpses of awesomeness in my kid [through Bark]. A friend was texting how sad she was about something, which got flagged by Bark. I got to see my daughter listen and validate her friend’s feelings, and I was so secretly proud of how supportive she was."
"I love how I can feel like my daughter is safe without having to look through her phone and invade her privacy. She is becoming a teenager now, and I would like to give her more independence, and this app allows that."
"My favorite thing is peace of mind. Instead of worrying about my kids’ social media accounts, I know [I have an] ally in raising my boys. Thanks for helping me protect them!"
"I don’t want to be a helicopter parent, but the internet is uncharted territory for this generation of parents. This helps me guide him in making good choices."
"Bark saves me time and takes the effort out of monitoring my kids phones. I have peace of mind receiving timely alerts and regular reports on their online behavior"
"Bark has been a good tool for our family and has allowed us to have good conversations with our teenagers as they try to figure out who they are."