Parenting & Family · pricing
Bark pricing
Bark publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- $5/month
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Not on record
Bark plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bark Jr | $5/month | 5 | Entry tier |
| Bark Premium | $14/month | 7 | +$9/month, 7 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Bark Jr
$5/monthThe entry tier. It covers screen time scheduling, web filtering, location tracking, check-ins, up to unlimited kids.
Bark Premium
$14/monthOver Bark Jr, this tier adds:
- Everything in Bark Jr
- Content monitoring
- 30+ social platforms
- Email monitoring
- Text monitoring
- AI-powered alerts
- Unlimited devices
What the product covers
The full Bark feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- AI-powered content monitoring
- Social media monitoring
- Text & email monitoring
- Screen time management
- Web filtering
- Location tracking
- Check-in alerts
- Cyberbullying detection
Integrations
- TikTok
- Snapchat
- YouTube
- Discord
- Roblox
Security
- End-to-end encryption
- SOC2
- COPPA compliant
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
Platform
- Web support
- Ios support
- Android support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Chromebook support
Localization
- English language support
- Spanish language support
People bring Bark in for monitoring a child's texts, social media and photos for concerning content, blocking websites and apps by schedule, location tracking for a child's phone or watch, screen time limits across home devices, a restricted phone or watch with no browser or social media. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Bark are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Parenting & Family
Across the 3 parenting & family tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $4.99/month. Bark starts at $5/month, which puts it in line with the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bark (this page) | $5/month | subscription | - | |
| BusyKid | $4/month | - | - | vs Bark |
| Artkive | Free, then $75/product | - | - | vs Bark |
| BabyCenter | Free | free | - | vs Bark |
| Brightwheel | Free | subscription | - | vs Bark |
| Apple Screen Time | Free | free | - | vs Bark |
| Baby Tracker - Newborn Log | Free, then $4.99/one-time | freemium | - | vs Bark |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Bark badges page.
Before you pay for Bark
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between $5/month and $14/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Bark against the tools that do have one before committing.
Bark runs on web, ios, android, windows, mac, chromebook, and is published by Bark Technologies, Inc. of Atlanta, GA. The full record is on the Bark review, and the rest of the category is under best parenting & family tools.
Bark pricing questions
- How much does Bark cost?
- Bark publishes 2 tiers, from $5/month for Bark Jr up to $14/month for Bark Premium. The cheapest paid tier is $5/month.
- Does Bark have a free plan?
- Not on the record we hold: Bark is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
- What is the difference between Bark Jr and Bark Premium on Bark?
- Bark Premium costs $14/month against $5/month, and adds everything in bark jr, content monitoring, 30+ social platforms, email monitoring.
- Is the Bark Premium plan on Bark worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is everything in bark jr, content monitoring, 30+ social platforms, email monitoring. It costs $14/month against $5/month for Bark Jr. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Bark expensive for a parenting & family tool?
- It starts in line with the middle of its category. Across the 3 parenting & family tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $4.99/month; Bark starts at $5/month.
- Which parenting & family tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 7 parenting & family tools listed alongside Bark have a free tier: Artkive, BabyCenter, Brightwheel, Apple Screen Time, Baby Tracker - Newborn Log.
- What am I actually paying for with Bark?
- The record lists 28 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for monitoring a child's texts, social media and photos for concerning content, blocking websites and apps by schedule, location tracking for a child's phone or watch.
- Does Bark charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Bark prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Bark against before paying?
- The closest parenting & family tools in this directory are BusyKid, Artkive, BabyCenter, Brightwheel. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Bark covering price, platforms and features.