Bark vs XJTLU APP
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bark
Send custom push notifications to your iPhone via an HTTP API. Supports advanced features like custom icons, grouping, and critical alerts. Offers privacy-protected, end-to-end encrypted pushes with self-deployable server options.
- HTTP API for push notifications
- Custom icons and grouping
- Continuous and critical alerts
- End-to-end push encryption
- Self-deployable server options
- Privacy-protected notifications
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You can send push notifications to your iPhone by simply calling an HTTP API. Bark supports many advanced iOS push features, such as custom icons, notification grouping, custom ringtones, continuous alerts, critical alerts, and encrypted pushes. Bark does not consume device battery, as its core functionality relies on system push services and push extensions, and the app itself does not need to be running. Bark ensures your privacy and security with high reliability. Bark supports self-deploying the server, which can be deployed via Docker, Serverless, or Cloudflare Worker. The bark-server supports most operating systems, and you can also run it manually. The app is compiled and uploaded through Github Action, ensuring that the version you’re using is compiled from open-source code, without any modifications by anyone (including the author). Bark supports end-to-end push encryption with a custom key, ensuring that the push content is not accessed or leaked by the Bark server or Apple’s APNs server during transmission. The notification message history saved locally by Bark is also very secure. Using the NotificationServiceExtension, the push message is only stored on the device when the push is received. Feedback email: to@day.app Privacy Policy: https://api.day.app/privacy User Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
XJTLU APP
This app offers XJTLU staff and students unified access to campus data from various application systems. It provides an easy-to-use mobile interface for accessing important information.
- Unified data access
- Mobile interface
- Access campus systems
- Easy to use
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XJTLU APP intended to provide XJTLU staff and students with the means to benefit from accessing to data produced by a wide range of application systems across the campus in a uniform and easy way on mobile devices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: XJTLU APP at none against Bark's 2. XJTLU APP also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Bark's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (110 vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Bark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per year. XJTLU APP asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Bark against 4.8 for XJTLU APP. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 110 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 98% of Bark's written reviews are positive against 100% of XJTLU APP's.
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, XJTLU APP every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bark | XJTLU APP |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (110 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University |
Customer experience
Bark
XJTLU APP
In-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
XJTLU APP
No in-app purchases









