Comprehensive Content Monitoring for Parents
Bark’s content monitoring app helps keep kids safe by sending alerts about potential issues. Our monitoring features give parents and guardians key insights into their kids’ digital worlds.
Help Keep Your Child Safe
If you’re on the hunt for a content monitoring app, you most likely want the peace of mind that you’ll be alerted if your child is ever in danger. Bark does just that (and more) by monitoring the top devices, platforms, and apps kids use today for signs of potential issues.
Apply Powerful Protection
Bark’s content monitoring features let you:
- Receive alerts if your child encounters porn, cyberbullying, drugs, online predators, and more
- Get key insights into your child’s online world so you can support them as they navigate technology
- Be alerted about inappropriate emojis and slang terms your kid uses
- Much more!
Build a Deeper Connection
Each time our phone monitoring app for parents sends an alert, we also include information about what to do next — conversation starters, boundaries to set, and more.
Our alerts should help strengthen your bond with your child… not the opposite. We hope you use them as an opportunity to connect, teach, and grow.
What Bark Monitors
Bark scans texts, emails, and 30+ of the most popular apps and social media platforms for issues like bullying, online predators, suicidal ideation, sexual content, and more.
Key Content Monitoring Features
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Choose how sensitive you’d like alerts to be for each issue
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Get key insights into your child’s online world
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Receive alerts about attempts to access blocked sexual content
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Learn when you need to pause and check in on your child
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Receive expert-recommended suggestions for handling issues
Real-Life Use Cases
It can sometimes be tricky to know exactly how a content monitoring app can help your family.
These examples show real ways they support kids' well-being.
Online Predators
After Richard M. found out that a predator was sending his 10-year-old daughter messages on Reddit, he started using Bark to get alerts if anything like that happens again.
Cyberbullying
Lisa T.’s son is autistic, and sometimes gets bullied in group chats without realizing it. She uses Bark alerts to know when it might be good to intervene and give her son support.
Violence
School shootings are something that worries Carla F. Bark gives her peace of mind knowing she will get an alert if any threats appear in her son’s online connections.
What Parents Are Saying
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Bark is like the Swiss Army knife of my parenting tool box
Bark is like the Swiss Army knife of my parenting tool box. I find a new benefit of having it constantly. It’s the most helpful tool I have in keeping my teenagers safe and helping me stay in the know with their crazy world of technology.
Cassia M.
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A huge weight lifted
It was like a huge weight was lifted off my shoulders when stumbling across the Bark app.
Jenna U.
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Greater peace of mind
With Bark alerts, I now have peace of mind that my kids devices are safe and I don’t have to look at everything.
Brett K.
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Insight and conversation starters
Best of all, the conversations we have regarding Bark alerts give me insight into my child’s world and his relationships.
Dave C.
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It saved our family
I just want to get on here and say PLEASE get Bark online monitoring. Yesterday it saved our family. Out of respect for our son’s privacy I won’t go into details. But I will say this: (1) we are a family who talks about EVERYTHING on the daily, I literally run a non-profit about kids and mental health… (2) he is an AMAZING, thoughtful, kind, sweet person and (3) he almost got into a situation that would have haunted him for the rest of his life. You need the open communication AND Bark to battle modern childhood.
Cindy R.
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Our Products & Prices
Bark Premium
Our comprehensive parental intelligence solution.
- Manage screen time
- Filter which websites your kids can visit
- Keep up with kids with location alerts and check-ins
- Monitor texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and platforms
- Get alerts for issues like cyberbullying, online predators, suicidal ideation, and more
Bark Jr
Our entry-level product is perfect for younger kids.
- Manage screen time
- Filter which websites your kids can visit
- Keep up with kids with location alerts and check-ins
- Monitor texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and platforms
- Get alerts for issues like cyberbullying, online predators, suicidal ideation, and more
Content Monitoring Videos
Need more information about parental monitoring — how it works, why it’s important, and more? These videos can help.
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Content Monitoring FAQs
Bark's phone monitoring app for parents not only provides comprehensive coverage for all the top apps and devices, but also takes the crucial extra step of helping families navigate the issues raised by alerts.
Here's a complete list of absolutely everything Bark monitors on every device.
Add one of your child's devices or social media accounts to be monitored. Then — thanks to our comprehensive AI, we'll start sending you alerts about potentially harmful activities on those devices and accounts.
You can also customize how sensitive you would like the alerts to be. Don't care about profanity but want all alerts about drugs? No problem.
Bark's parental monitoring app can send alerts about cyberbullying, sexual content, online predators, depression, suicidal ideation, threats of violence, disordered eating, and more!
Bark's phone monitoring app for parents helps you monitor over 30 of the top social media platforms kids use, including YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and more. We also monitor text messages, emails, web searches, images, etc.
Here's a complete list of what Bark monitors.
