Comparison

Bark vs 熊猫吃短信2

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

熊猫吃短信2

This app uses machine learning to intelligently filter your text messages, categorizing them beyond just spam. It offers detailed classifications for financial, order, and weather-related messages, all processed offline on your device for enhanced privacy. Users can contribute to its learning by reporting misclassified messages.

Highlights
  • Machine learning SMS filtering
  • Offline processing
  • Detailed message categorization
  • User-contributed learning
  • Privacy-focused
Features
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广受欢迎的「熊猫吃短信」推出了 2.0 版本,使用新的机器学习模型架构,更加准确,也支持了更多的分类。 全面适配 iOS 16 的最新的短信分类,在正常短信、垃圾短信之外能够识别更加细致的短信分类:财务(银行信息、保险、理财、水电费)、订单(取件码、物流、订单状态、旅游出行)、运营商、天气等等。 熊猫吃短信创新性的使用 CoreML 机器学习框架在手机端离线拦截垃圾短信。我们不上传用户短信,拒绝云端识别。 我们依靠广大的用户群体主动向我们举报垃圾短信来建立机器学习的样本库。然后使用基于统计学的机器学习算法从百万条各类短信样本中学习而成。无需用户配置任何关键词,它通过识别一个短信的语义特征,自己就可以精准的判断收到的短信是正常短信、公益短信、交易记录还是广告骚扰短信等等。 如果熊猫有判断失误的时候,大家可以在 App 里面投喂新的短信样本帮助熊猫进化,喂养越多熊猫越聪明。 ** 隐私条款:熊猫会收集哪些信息?** 「熊猫吃短信」不会收集您的任何信息,更不会上传您的短信内容。如果您自愿向熊猫提交短信样本,那么会收集脱敏后的短信文本以及一个您标注是否是垃圾短信的数字,仅此两项数据。 https://baye.tech/privacy-policy.html 使用条款 https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Bark3 screens
熊猫吃短信24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bark at 98% against 熊猫吃短信2's 71%. Bark also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 熊猫吃短信2's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per year and 熊猫吃短信2 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bark holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 105 and 243 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Bark's written reviews are positive against 71% of 熊猫吃短信2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, 熊猫吃短信2 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Bark versus 熊猫吃短信2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBark熊猫吃短信2
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (105 ratings) — better4.6 (243 ratings)
Positive reviews98.3% of reviews — better71.1% of reviews
Number of ratings105243 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer丰 黄Early Moon, LLC

Customer experience

Bark

All ratings105 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive98.3%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.0%

熊猫吃短信2

All ratings243 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral2.9%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews76 reviews
Positive71.1%
Neutral9.2%
Negative19.7%

Bugs and requests

Bark

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

熊猫吃短信2

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Custom rules not syncing across devices
  • Subscription invalid after changing region
  • iOS 18 functionality not working
  • Software logic bug with SMS redirection
  • Old version UI appears after upgrade

Requested features

8 requests
  • Custom rule migration or iCloud sync
  • Batch import keywords
  • Permanent in-app purchase option
  • Regular expression support
  • iCloud sync for custom rules
Show 3 more
  • English version for English SMS filtering
  • Customizable rule examples
  • Android version

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bark

Subscriptions1
  • Continuous support$2.691 Year
One-time1
  • One-time donation$2.69
2 purchases

熊猫吃短信2

Subscriptions2
  • 订阅机器学习模型(按月)7 Days trial$0.491 Month
  • 订阅机器学习模型(按年)7 Days trial$0.991 Year

Questions

Is Bark free?
Bark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 熊猫吃短信2 free?
熊猫吃短信2 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bark or 熊猫吃短信2?
Bark is rated higher. Bark averages 4.9 out of 5 from 105 ratings, while 熊猫吃短信2 averages 4.6 from 243 ratings.
Do Bark or 熊猫吃短信2 have ads?
Neither Bark nor 熊猫吃短信2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bark or 熊猫吃短信2?
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, and 熊猫吃短信2 every 9 days. Most recently, Bark was updated on September 21, 2026 and 熊猫吃短信2 on September 24, 2026.

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