Bark vs TinyPick
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/
TinyPick
This tool aids in making well-reasoned choices by allowing users to list pros and cons with associated scores. It provides automatic analysis and suggestions based on these inputs, helping to clarify complex decisions.
- Multiple decision issue making
- Support and opposition reasons
- Reason score recording
- Automatic decision analysis
- General scoring tool
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TinyPick is a tool that helps users make rational decisions. Why did I think of developing the TinyPick App? Because in our daily lives, we often need to make various decisions, big and small. For example: where to travel on vacation, which school to send children to, whether to buy a house, whether to buy a car, whether to change jobs, whether to return to my hometown for development... and so on. However, I am a person who is more easily entangled. Whenever I make some decisions, I often think and struggle in my mind, and it is easy to ignore the key decision factors of a certain thing. So, when making decisions, I hope to write down the opinions for and against (pros and cons) of each thing one by one, so that I can have a more complete understanding of this matter. So, there is the TinyPick tool. TinyPick supports the creation of multiple things that need to be decided, supports the input of reasons for support and opposition for each thing, and supports the input of corresponding scores. In this way, we can clearly see the overall situation and score of each thing, and TinyPick will automatically give suggestions for you to make the final decision based on the score. In addition, TinyPick also supports writing a summary for each decision. You can record your feelings when making the decision, and you can also record whether the decision was made correctly later. Finally, TinyPick can actually be used as a general scoring tool, because TinyPick supports positive and negative scores. You can record scores for anything and automatically count the highest score and ranking for you. For example, basketball games, chess and card scoring, etc. Currently supported functions: - Multiple decision issue making - Support and opposition reasons - Reason score recording - Automatic analysis of decisions Future supported functions: - More types of decision-making tools - More dimensional data statistics - AI-assisted decision-making Contact the developer: linguny@gmail.com ———————— Privacy Policy: https://kennylin.notion.site/TinyPick-Privacy-Policy-13f80aa095c0803091a4d3d87abc1f48 User Terms: https://kennylin.notion.site/TinyPick-User-Terms-14280aa095c080acbb71dbdcb1a2efde USER LICENSE AGREEMENT: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: TinyPick at free against Bark's free with in-app purchases. Bark's advantage is ratings volume (105 vs 1) and review sentiment (98% vs 75%). 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 and TinyPick sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Bark against 5.0 for TinyPick. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 105 ratings behind it against 1, 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 75% of TinyPick's.
Bark ships an update every 3 weeks, TinyPick fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bark | TinyPick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (105 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 98.3% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 105 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丰 黄 | 滚宁 林 |
Customer experience
Bark
TinyPick
In-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
TinyPick
- TinyPick Pro$2.99









