Comparison

Bark vs Reqable

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

Reqable

This tool acts as an advanced API debugging proxy, allowing you to inspect and test HTTP/HTTPS traffic independently or collaboratively with a desktop app. It supports various protocols and offers REST API management features for efficient development.

Highlights
  • Standalone traffic inspection
  • Collaborative mode with desktop app
  • HTTP/HTTPS traffic analysis
  • REST API management
  • Multiple request views (JSON, Hex, Image)
  • Compose and repeat requests
  • Search and filter traffic
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Reqable is a new generation API debugging and testing one-stop solution, advanced web debugging proxy, making your work faster and simpler. Reqable can inspect HTTP/HTTPS traffic of your app, help you find and locale issue easily. #1 Standalone Mode: Traffic inspection can be performed independently without relying on the desktop. You can view the captured HTTP protocol message in the app, reqable provides many views, such as JsonViewer, HexViewer, ImageViewer and so on. And you can perform many actions on the traffic, like repeat, share to someone, save to phone, etc. #2 Collaborative Mode: The app could forward traffic to Reqable desktop app by scanning the QR code without manually configuring the Wi-Fi proxy. And iOS app provides the enhanced mode to capture the app that not using Wi-Fi proxy, such Flutter apps. With the collaborative mode, you can perform actions on desktop rather than mobile, it will greatly improve your work. #3 Traffic Inspection Reqable iOS uses the classic MITM proxy method for traffic inspection, support the following features: - HTTP/1.x and HTTP2 protocol. - HTTP/HTTPS/Socks4/Socks4a/Socks5 proxy protocol. - HTTPS, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3 protocols. - WebSocket upgraded based on HTTP1. - IPv4 and IPv6. - SSL Proxying. - HTTP/HTTPS secondary proxy. - VPN mode and proxy mode. - Search and filter. - Compose requests. - HTTP-Archive. - Traffic Highlighting. - Repeat and advanced repeat. - cURL. - Code snippet. #4 REST Testing Also, you can manage REST APIs with Reqable: - HTTP/1.1, HTTP2 and HTTP3 (QUIC) REST testing. - Collections. - Environments. - Creating multiple Tabs for REST testing. - Batch editing of query parameters, request headers, forms, etc. - Authorization methods such as API KEY, Basic Auth, and Bearer Token. - Custom proxy, system proxy and debugging proxy, etc. - Metrics of request at different stages. - Cookies. - cURL. - Code snippet. EULA and privacy: https://reqable.com/policy

Screenshots

Bark3 screens
Reqable4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bark at 98% against Reqable's 50%. Bark also leads on ratings volume (109 vs 6) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Reqable's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Reqable sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. 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 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 109 ratings behind it against 6, 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 50% of Reqable's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, Reqable every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bark versus Reqable: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarkReqable
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (109 ratings) — better4.7 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews98.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings109 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB174 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer丰 黄Reqable 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%

Reqable

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bark

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

Reqable

One-time6
  • Premium (30 days)$9.90
  • Professional License (30 days)$9.90
  • Premium (1 year)$49.90
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  • Professional License (a year)$49.90
  • Premium (lifetime)$199.00
  • Professional License Lifetime$199.00

Questions

Is Bark free?
Bark is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reqable free?
Reqable is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bark or Reqable?
Bark is rated higher. Bark averages 4.9 out of 5 from 109 ratings, while Reqable averages 4.7 from 6 ratings.
Do Bark or Reqable have ads?
Neither Bark nor Reqable shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bark or Reqable?
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, and Reqable every 6 days. Most recently, Bark was updated on September 30, 2026 and Reqable on September 19, 2026.

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