Comparison

Bark vs Yeelight

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

Yeelight

Enhance your living space with dynamic RGB lighting products. Create a vibrant atmosphere with innovative and scalable lighting solutions that sync with gaming platforms for an immersive experience.

Highlights
  • Dynamic RGB lighting
  • Scalable product line
  • Gaming platform synchronization
  • Matter connectivity
  • Personalized lighting effects
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Yeelight Fun is the RGB ambient product line designed specifically for cool play users, which will create a unique dynamic aesthetic for your life by offering products that are playable, innovative, and scalable. Yeelight has launched personalized and distinctive products such as Yeelight Cube Smart Lamp, Yeelight Beam RGBIC Light Bar and Yeelight Obsid RGBIC Light Strip. We hope to embrace the vivid and dynamic characteristics of RGB lighting, create a lively and vibrant environment, and make your life full of fun. These products can also sync with gaming platforms such as Razar and Overwolf, allowing your gaming experience to be maximized! You can also connect to Matter to get more interactive gameplay!

Screenshots

Bark3 screens
Yeelight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bark at 98% against Yeelight's 5%. Bark also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.0) and ratings volume (110 vs 21). Yeelight's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Yeelight asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bark holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 110 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Bark's written reviews are positive against 5% of Yeelight's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, Yeelight every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bark versus Yeelight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkYeelight
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (110 ratings) — better2.0 (21 ratings)
Positive reviews98.4% of reviews — better5.0% of reviews
Number of ratings110 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.2
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer丰 黄Qingdao Yeelink Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Customer experience

Bark

All ratings109 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive98.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative0.0%

Yeelight

All ratings21 ratings
Positive19.0%
Neutral14.3%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive5.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative75.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bark

Subscriptions1
  • Continuous support$2.691 Year
One-time1
  • One-time donation$2.69
None

Yeelight

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bark free?
Bark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Yeelight free?
Yeelight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bark or Yeelight?
Bark is rated higher. Bark averages 4.9 out of 5 from 110 ratings, while Yeelight averages 2.0 from 21 ratings.
Do Bark or Yeelight have ads?
Neither Bark nor Yeelight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bark or Yeelight?
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, and Yeelight every 5 weeks. Most recently, Bark was updated on October 29, 2026 and Yeelight on October 25, 2026.

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