Bark vs Penguin Statistics
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/
Penguin Statistics
This app provides a comprehensive database of user-uploaded drop rates and offers automatic material farming plans. It also features home screen widgets for an at-a-glance overview of drop rates on iOS and iPadOS devices.
- Browse user-uploaded drop rate data
- Automatic material farm planning
- iOS/iPadOS home screen widgets
- Official app of Penguin Statistics website
- Ad-free experience
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With Penguin Statistics, you can browse a large amount of data uploaded by users in multiple dimensions, and enjoy the convenience brought by automatic material farm planning from ArkPlanner. The App allows you to show the overview of drop rates across the site right on your Home Screen thanks to the iOS/iPadOS 14 Widgets. When using this App, it is recommended to enable "Auto Download App Updates" (located at: Settings - App Store - Automatic Download) so that iOS/iPadOS will automatically update the App when a new version of the App is available for the best experience. This App is the official App of the website "Penguin Statistics". The same privacy policy and data protection policies are applied, as "Penguin Statistics" website. For information about the processing of your data and your privacy, you can check out the "Privacy Policy" info located on this page.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Penguin Statistics at none against Bark's 2. Penguin Statistics also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Bark's advantage is ratings volume (109 vs 11). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Penguin Statistics asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Bark against 5.0 for Penguin Statistics. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 109 ratings behind it against 11, 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 Penguin Statistics's.
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, Penguin Statistics every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bark | Penguin Statistics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (109 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 98.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 109 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | MikuNet LLC |
Customer experience
Bark
Penguin Statistics
In-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
Penguin Statistics
No in-app purchases









