Bark Kids

This intrudes my personal space so much I can’t even text my friend without my mom being all up in my business

I get that my parents want to protect me from stuff but this is too much. My apps never want to work even when the “Free Time” is on. It’s always glitching out my phone and none of my apps work anymore. Pinterest is the main victim. Aside from that it also doesn’t block bad content it just sends it to parents. That doesn’t help anyone. I don’t want to send my friends anything in case i say something wrong and it exposes all of my messages. My internet never works and to get stuff to work i have to offload bark but then most of them only work for around 10 minutes. Then they proceed to glitch again. If you want to get your kids to trust you then this isn’t the choice. I need my privacy and this shows that my parents don’t trust me. If they don’t trust me then they shouldn’t have gotten me a phone. I’m only aloud to have Pinterest so that’s what i used to spend all my time on until i can’t use it anymore. So now i have to play some no wifi games and teens don’t want to do that all the time. I completely understand why this app has such bad ratings. Sometimes i can’t even use google. Nothing works and it’s basically the same as taking your child’s phone away. Getting this app is so awful since your kid can’t do anything so it’s the same as their phone being dead and them not having a charger. Nothing. Works. Anymore. I’m tired of this app. Please take it off the AppStore for us teens

This app is specifically to help protect children and does exactly what it says. I’m grateful.

Hi, I’m just going to start this by stating I’m a 13 year old girl that was doing things I should not have been. Instead of talking about it I had this app put on my phone, and it is the worst thing to have ever been invented. It alerts about content that is not concerning, and I get in trouble because it says I am doing things that I am not. And instead of protecting kids from doing bad things and from people talking to me that shouldn’t, it teaches kids to work around the app and find loopholes. Bark is an app that only causes more trust issues and more of a gap between the guardian/guardians that are spying and their kid. Yes I should not have done what I was doing, but this app isn’t protecting me from doing it again. Common sense is. All this app did is make me paranoid and scared every time I get picked up by my mom because I don’t know what this app has been telling her. Great job bark, I’m scared to get in trouble for things I didn’t do!!

This app invades my privacy so much it’s actually stressful

Yeah sure it shows your texts and sensitive content to parents, but It’s not worth the sacrifice. I have a brand new IPhone 16 and the bark vpn makes so many unnecessary things not work and makes my phone run like it has 1 bar of WiFi even if I’ve got more WiFi than I could ever want. Coming from a teenage boy, parents — try something else and save us kids the trouble please 🙏

Just disappointing tbh

I read reviews and seen developers talk about some keeping kids safe. I’m 16 being treated like a kid stop punishing kids js because grown people don’t have self control and cause danger for kids. You give these apps to the wrong kind of parents lack of trust is a very common problem apps like this only make kids dislike their strict parents even more js stop there is a difference between keeping kids safe and limiting a child to life. We can’t go outside since there are kidnappers nd stuff so now we have tech and can’t even have it. Stop robbing people of life. Wrd

As a teen i feel like a toddler with this on my phone and everything is restricted and my privacy is invaded and my parents know everything single thing I do on my phone

I don’t think u should download this app at ALL. Every time I want to go into another app I have it COMPLETELY blocks me from using it. Like come on.And the other thing is it has NO PRIVACY at ALL. You can tell how much I hate this app. 1 star not great quality. Don’t get this app!