AXENT Remote vs Bark
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AXENT Remote
Control all intelligent products from a single application. Connects to devices via Bluetooth for seamless remote operation. Manage your smart home devices with ease.
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Remote control functionality
- Automatic device connection
- Control all AXENT intelligent products
- User-friendly interface
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"AXENT Smart Control" is an APP that can control every AXENT intelligent product. Use bluetooth to automatically connect your mobile device to your AXENT intelligent product and use it like a remote control.
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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bark at 98% against AXENT Remote's 25%. Bark also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (109 vs 5). AXENT Remote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Bark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.69 per year. AXENT Remote asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bark holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bark has 109 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of AXENT Remote's written reviews are positive against 98% of Bark's.
AXENT Remote ships an update monthly, Bark every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AXENT Remote | Bark |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 4.9 (109 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 98.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 109 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Xiamen Axent Corporation Limited | 丰 黄 |
Customer experience
AXENT Remote
Bark
In-app purchases
AXENT Remote
No in-app purchases
Bark
- Continuous support$2.691 Year
- One-time donation$2.69
