Bark for Kids is the child companion app for Bark. It is meant to be installed on the child’s chrome browser.
Bark detects messages containing cyberbullying, sexting, signs of depression or suicidal thoughts, and many others — without you having to spend hours reading your child’s messages.
Bark supports dozens of popular social media platforms, along with email, and text messaging.
Children spend an increasing amount of time socializing online. Unfortunately, new technology creates new risks. Parents need a smarter solution to help keep their children safe online without sifting through their social media feed or randomly grabbing their child’s phone and scrolling through their messages.
You connect your children’s accounts and we notify you if and when there’s a potential issue. This approach helps to build trust and an open dialog with your family around internet safety.
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.
“Bark alerted us to a social media post my daughter sent that implied she was not where she had said she was, and that she and her friends had illegal drugs in our vehicle that she drives. With this information we were able to ask her about the activities that night and to talk to her about the risks of having illegal drugs in the car even if the drugs belonged to a friend. Although it was a difficult conversation and there are issues still to address, I’m grateful Bark alerted us to the messages so we could take action.” – Trent
“Bark notified me that my young daughter had unknowingly revealed her phone number to strangers on Twitter. The fact that bark.us notified me in realtime was impressive and led to an informative discussion with her the same day.” – Jon B.
“We had a couple notifications come through and we were thankful for those. It opened up a dialog with our son which was great.” – Nicci C.
“I wanted to say thank you. Bark is really providing me some peace of mind as a parent, and my kids appreciate the extra privacy I’m giving them.” – Ray F.
This app is absolutely horrible! Do I really need to say what is wrong with this? Look at all the other comments! SHUT THIS EXTENSION DOWN!
this has actually broken my phone I don’t have any mobile data even when the settings were flipped to give it back to me through bark. Im 14 and my stepdad installed it on my phone to see if im doing anything ileagle outside of the house aside from it doing its job it has broken the devices that it has been put on dont use
If I do anything it goes off for everything I do. I was watching a video about a Roblox fighting game and it went off saying it was violent. It reported a video as “Sexual Content” for a joke. I said the word depressing to my friend and it went off for “Suicidal thoughts”.
My mother installed this whole thing when I was 15, and I still have it installed on my devices despite the fact that I am almost a legal adult. I get the idea, I really do. But this app completely destroyed my trust in my mom for a while. She tried to install it secretly (one of the perks of being tech savvy is a know when something is up with my phone), and pretended not to know anything about it when I brought it up. I have friends with severe mental illnesses, and they come to me sometimes for support. Since I’ve had this installed it feels wrong to let my friends talk to me because I know that my mother will end up seeing it. I feel like I have to watch everything I do, because I don’t know what gets “flagged”. I talked with my therapist about it and even she thinks it’s a bit excessive. I get parent’s concern with safety online, but there are better ways to do it.
My school downloaded this onto my computer without my consent (making it spyware btw)
and now everything I do gets sent to my parents and I did not even notice until my parents got mad at me for “not doing my work” even though I did. Now I am afraid to talk to my friends online because this thing takes screen shots of my activity.
Really bad, doesn’t allow kids to do anything.
I have read a ton of the comments and can understand what these people are coming from. they have every reason to be mad and disappointed in there parents. that does not make the app totally unless though. in my situation, my parents have a problem with trust regarding to being on the computer when i’m in school and i’m going through a difficult time with them. I think that monitoring my online activity will help resolve an otherwise unresolvable situation. you may continue to hate on this app, but only if you had a bad experience with it yourself. And Medziaga, please try to understand the situation from others point of view before judging them for thier need to share thier experiences and make it so no one has to go through it themselves. you are probably just some helicopter parent yourself and from now on you shall be known as Karen. THE E-KARENS HAVE RISEN. GRAB YOUR CHILDREN AND GET TO CANADA, WERE EVERYONE IS NICER
I read through a couple of the reviews, and my problem is simple: I have to go to the desktop to download/install it for it to work on mobile, and yet it still doesn’t allow me to scroll Google without breaking itself every tap and swipe. I understand that these reviews are mainly from school-enforced downloads, but I just want it to work and not have a nervous breakdown every new pixel it generates.
App is broken and doesn’t work well it mis represents itself and doesn’t help me as a parent at all.
The extension is invading our privacy. Isn’t there a human right about this or something. As well as there’s a virus that comes with it. Also it has reported to sell your information while using extension.
Its super bad and should not exist all it does is take up your space and gives you a virus my school removed it because it gave all the computers a virus it should be removed from the web completely do not download this it gives away all your information
To all the parents calling us immature children: Oh please, We all have our own opinions and so do you. Just as we are sharing ours, you are as well. Our feelings are still valid even though we are still kids. The Parental restrictions on this app are insane and are invading my privacy, causing my mental health to suffer. Parents just need to learn the word “privacy” and we would be golden. I don’t want my mom reading all of my private convos because they are PRIVATE. Private convos should stay private. You just need to let your kid know that if they ever feel uncomfortable with something on the internet then they should come and tell you. You shouldn’t rely on some (sorry to say) easily hackable app to tell you more than what your kid is comfortable with you knowing. And, To be honest, If they aren’t uncomfortable with it why does it matter. We are WAY more tech savvy than you probably are and we do find ways around it. Chances are, if you talk to your kid about something that the app notified you about then i will probably drive a wedge in your relationship with your kid. If your kid’s message is flagged as “depression” and their talking about their mental health to someone who is really listening then please leave it alone. They will only stop taking to the person that they were relying on and their mental health could get even worse by not having an outlet. Well, That concludes my rant I know that it was really long but I feel like it had to be said. I am speaking from my experience and my experience only so please don’t tell me “Well my kid, bill, feels much safer now” or ” My daughter, Emma, was really grateful”. Thank you for your time. (I hope this message isn’t going to be flagged… I tried really hard to use non-triggering words)
I get that this is for schools and parents to monitor. But personally, this was from school. It downloads itself to my PERSONAL email and devices. It’s literally looking at my personal email for my business and it doesn’t make me feel safe in the slightest. And I can’t even remove it from my personal devices. I was like “Okay, it checks for inappropriate things” Which would HAVE to look at everything else you search and look at. But when it said “Knows your email address” Wouldn’t it apparently know your password too because it’s moderating? I’m fine with it being on my school email. But the line is where it is in my PERSONAL email too. If theres a way to remove it from my personal devices, let me know, because this is not okay. – Sophomore
absolute dog
I hate this software, its really bad
Never get this extension it is horrible it can access everything on your computer it is a invasion of privacy and its very sensitive and i have been reading some reviews for bark but when bark replied they tried to hide the fact that its a invasion of privacy and that punk Medziaga has been replying in a very rude way trying to say that bark is a good app when its not but anyway this app should be taken off the web store for good
NO, IT POSES LARGE SECURITY PROBLEM
bad
this app is just fine. the reason is rating is one start is because of all the immature kids who don’t like parental restrictions
This completely ruins privacy! This is possibly the WORST app for schools and parental use! Half the time it doesn’t do anything! And half the time it blocks my friends from watching videos like DanTDMs and other family friendly youtubers! This extension sucks, dont get it!
from a 13 year olds point of view: my mom put this on all my devices. i have not done anything wrong and it makes me upset that she does not trust me. this had broken our trust. it reports something to her every day that is marked as “bullying” or “violence” when im joking with my friends. its like i cant even have a normal conversation without something being sent to my mom. this has made me stop texting my two friends as much and i never see them in person anymore. i feel really distanced from them and often i feel alone. i usally just listen to music- oh wait. i cant even listen to music with out it being reported to my parents for cuss words or something stupid. if youre a parent please please do not get this if you want your relationship with your kids to last.
trash
this app is dumb stupid. it goes and takes all your information to sell it to the government!!! why would you want to sell your kids information to the government, thats kinda retarded no CaP. so just dont ever get it ty ok bye ly karens <3
It is horrible and takes away all of your school privacy.
It is desighned to make you miserable and not be able to do anything, and I think they might be watching what I type right now.
i really do not like this. i understand that my parents want to keep me safe, but it almost feels like they’re stalking me. i have friends who want to email me and talk to me about real life problems, and bark completely ruins my social life. my friends can’t talk to me because they don’t feel safe. i really wish that it could just censor out the big stuff, like p/rn, s/xual stuff, and r/pe, etc. all the trigger stuff, ya know? but i really just hate that it ruins my social life. i’m a good student and child in general, and i feel like my parents don’t trust me. it really breaks relationships with parents as well as with friends, because i feel like my parents don’t trust me and stuff like that. anyway, thanks to anyone who read my rant.