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Frigate NVR
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source NVR that runs local real-time AI object detection on security cameras and integrates with Home Assistant.
291K visits/mo1.1K saves
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Aura
✓ verifiedPaid
All-in-one digital-safety subscription protecting families from identity theft, fraud and online threats, with parental controls.
2.5M visits/mo762 saves
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Bark
✓ verifiedFree trial
Parental-control service that AI-monitors kids' texts, apps and social media, plus screen time, web filtering and GPS location.
1.6M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Kids: $10/mo billed annually
Individual: $12/mo billed annually (1 adult)
Couple: $22/mo billed annually (2 adults)
Family: $32/mo billed annually (5 adults)
Free trial available
Bark App (Android): $14/mo (or $99/yr)
Bark App (iOS): $20/mo (or $148/yr)
Bark Watch: $22/mo
Bark Home: $6/mo (or $79 one-time)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Local real-time AI object detection
- ✦Runs entirely on your own hardware, no cloud
- ✦Supports AI accelerators for 100+ detections per second
- ✦Zones for precise event and alert tuning
- ✦Home Assistant, OpenHab, NodeRed, and MQTT integration
- ✦Optional Frigate+ custom models
- ✦Identity theft protection with insurance
- ✦3-bureau credit monitoring and lock
- ✦Antivirus, VPN and password manager
- ✦Online data removal from brokers
- ✦Parental controls and safe-gaming alerts
- ✦Dark-web and financial-fraud alerts
- ✦AI content monitoring across 29+ risk categories
- ✦Screen-time schedules and limits
- ✦Website and app blocking
- ✦GPS location tracking and alerts
- ✦Dedicated Bark Phone, Watch and Home devices
- ✦Contact and app-download approvals
Use cases
- →Privacy-focused home security recording
- →Reducing false positives from motion-only NVRs
- →Triggering home-automation routines on detections
- →Reviewing only meaningful camera events
- →Protecting against identity theft
- →Monitoring family credit and finances
- →Keeping kids safe online
- →Removing personal data from broker sites
- →Alerting parents to online dangers
- →Limiting and scheduling kids' screen time
- →Filtering inappropriate content
- →Tracking a child's location
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