Bark vs TimeBank
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/
TimeBank
This utility tool helps you track your time by categorizing activities into 'SaveTime' and 'KillTime'. Your 'time deposit' balance is calculated as the difference between these two categories. The app prioritizes user privacy, collecting no data and offering optional iCloud backup.
- Categorize time into SaveTime & KillTime
- Calculate 'time deposit' balance
- User privacy focused
- Optional iCloud data backup
- Offline functionality
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This is a simple tool for tracking time, different from other productivity and focus-oriented apps. It forces the categorization of time into two main types: SaveTime & KillTime. You can allocate any task into these two categories based on your own experience and understanding. Ultimately, your 'time deposit' balance is the difference between SaveTime and KillTime. Please take good care of your 'wallet'. Regarding privacy: We do not collect any of your data. If you choose to use iCloud for data backup, you will need to grant this app access to the internet. No one, including the developer of this app, can read your data backed up on iCloud. Your data belongs solely to you. Of course, you can turn off the app's internet access at any time, which will not affect any of its functionality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TimeBank at none against Bark's 2. TimeBank also leads on device support (5 vs 3). Bark's advantage is ratings volume (110 vs 2) and review sentiment (98% vs 88%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. TimeBank 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 TimeBank. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 110 ratings behind it against 2, 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 88% of TimeBank's.
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, TimeBank monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bark | TimeBank |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (110 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 98.4% of reviews — better | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | 睿 刘 |
Customer experience
Bark
TimeBank
In-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
TimeBank
No in-app purchases








