Bark vs Yeelight
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/
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.
- 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!
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Bark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per year. Yeelight asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Bark | Yeelight |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (110 ratings) — better | 2.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.4% of reviews — better | 5.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 21 |
| 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 — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | Qingdao Yeelink Information Technology Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
Bark
Yeelight
In-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
Yeelight
No in-app purchases









