Bark Kids Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience12.9% of reviews
Neutral4.3% of reviews
Negative experience82.8% of reviews

~ Based on 829 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Bark Kids

Is Bark Kids Safe?

Bark Kids does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Bark Kids is 26/100.

This assessment is based on 9,546 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.3/5.

Safety Analysis

6.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
91.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 9,431 App Store ratings for Bark Kids.

Is Bark Kids Legit?

Bark Kids appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Bark Kids is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Worst app in history

This app is so bad and doesn’t allow anything, it doesn’t allow Pinterest. I love that app with a passion and now I can’t get on it. The app says it wants to prevent sh but in my opinion? It increases it because it takes happiest and joy away from kids. It has made me depressed to the point I don’t leave my room barely. I hope this app gets banned or changed atleast
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Literally crying😭

PARENTS IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR KIDS DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT GET THIS FOR YOUR KIDS.

I have had this app for Barely a day and it is terrible, my alarms were deleted and I can’t get into iMessage. This is because my mom made me download this freaking app. My parents (mom) are always saying how “their generation is to protective in the outside world and not protective enough online.” This statement is completely false, and it is the complet opposite. I have an IPad (no phone until I drive), screen time on my IPad and am banned from Pinterest, and now this. Parents you cAnt just shelter your kids until they leave the house, cause they will NOT KNOW HOW TO OPERATE when they leave. You have to let them explore AND FAIL to really allow them to become functioning human beings. I know it might be hard but just let them go just a little bit, within the comfort of their own home so that when they fail they can come to you, instead of having to figure it out on their own. No. Tater the talks, presentations, or directions you give them without experience they have not learned a thing.

Parents you may not know this, but this kind of thing is embarrassing and their have been studies that say that kids without smartphones are MORE prone to get bullied.

In short this is just a way of parents being lazy and please delete this app from the entire earth

Sent with love ❤️ (and hate),
Child of bark

P.S the bark app has a 4.3 review we must band together a rate it 1 star take it down I say!!🔥✊
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I hate it

It shut down everything on my phone even things my parents let me have it’s really stupid don’t get it

😁

It’s so good my kid Betty just went up to her room with a rope or something she is so quiet now! What a grand time she’s having❤️

This is the worse thing that could ever happen.

I feel like my whole life is being controlled and my friends have been making fun of me for it. I have been losing friends and I feel awful about it my social life has gotten worse since my partner got this stupid app and sometimes I get introverted for stuff other people send me. It is the worse thing that you could ever get your kid unless you hate him or her
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GREAT!!

Ever since my boy JJ has had this app he isn’t using his stupid nentendio smitch he has gotten very interested in all sorts of knifes!!❤️ though he does get slits on his wrists from time to time actually he is in his room with a kitchen knife! He has been so quiet not asking for screens oh to other parents he said he wants to end it all? Do y’all know what that means! Anyway keep restricting kids from their social lives!!🫶
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Invasive

My mom got it a few months ago and it feels so invasive because she can see what’s going on drama wise when I don’t say things that the app approves of you can call someone a name and it’ll set it off…do not get the app your it will ruin your child

Feels like I'm locked out of my own feelings...

Ever since my parents have installed this app they aren't allowed to do or go on anything, I can't either! I hate this app so much. They do too. It feels like I'm on a leash.

Vary bad app

I feel like I’m getting treated like I’m a 7 year old child but I’m 12 and this app is SO UNNECESSARY like it feels more like a prison then keeping me “safe” on the internet.And one other thing I already had a VERY restrictive phone but this is pushing me way off the edge and I get bullied at school for this and I try to tell my mom but she always says something like “honey this is good for you don’t listen to them” but I try so hard not to but it just gets to a point.And you’re WiFi is WAY SLOWER. I only recommend if you want your kid to run away and never come back.
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12 year old perspective

I actually prefer having this app. I always feel so tempted to watch YouTube even when my mom doesn’t want me to. This keeps me from that. Thank you so much bark :).
Edit: Bark caught me on a bad website, which helped my mom talk to me about it and block it. I knew it was bad, and wanted to get off it. Thank you so much bark :D
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please oh dear lord

i cannot describe what horrors and atrocities ive had in the experience of this app. parents pls dont get i beg of you. there will be no trust between you and your child. it slows down phone dramatically with vpn and my friends left me in terror of bark. i cry every time i think of when my mom forced me to use this app. i deleted it (which the app was supposed to not allow) and i felt like humanity had been restored so PLEASE DEAR GOD PLEASE DO NOT GET THIS APP😭😭😭
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This made me feel left out

My parents found this app and know I don’t have any apps zero not even safari and it made my phone shut off randomly.

0/10

This app sucks I feel like I’m being controlled 🫩

this app makes my life worse

my dad put this app on my phone which for one he didn’t buy and that i have ownership to but if i turn it off or delete the app he will take me phone from me. The app makes everything i do super laggy I cant access many apps my texts take forever to go through. It makes me feel like I’m being watched with ANYTHING I do
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bro

can’t do anything when you have this installed I swear to god I mean you can’t even participate in fantasy drafts and if you send a single cuss word in a message to a friend you get struck by an orbital laser

Random observation

Mfs always be putting a random heart after each response😭🥀

Also, feel this app invades your privacy by a certain margin that I dislike. I agree with the other concerned responses. I’m not just saying this out of the pure 1 star majority, but my own experiences too.

My perspective

This app sucks my wifi doesn’t load can’t send messages can’t call people can’t play online games and it is scary knowing someone or ai can see your location

Great but on question

If u delete this app and get it back would you have your data recovered like your account and stuff or would you have to create it again

North korea collab

yall should contact the north korea leader and tell him to give this app to every north korean citizen

dont get bark

Dont use this app my mother added this to my new phone and it requested VPN causing it not to let me call or use safari and spotify ! it made my messages sms and i had to take my phone to apple with my mom to get my phone to stop doing that, so i do not recommend using this for your child just please check there phones. . . i also cannot delete it now so i dont recommend this at all.
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