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Spectate
✓ verifiedFreemium
Uptime, server and status-page monitoring platform with AI-assisted incident summaries, aimed at agencies, startups and SaaS teams.
1.5K visits/mo
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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
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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
Hobby: $0 (5 monitors/servers, 1 status page, email alerts, 3-minute checks)
Solo: $12/month or $144 billed yearly (15 monitors, 1-minute checks, 1 status page)
Pro: $24/month or $288 billed yearly (50 monitors, 30-second checks, 25 voice/SMS credits, AI features)
Scale: $72/month or $864 billed yearly (100 monitors, unlimited status pages, 100 voice/SMS credits)
Business: $169/month or $2,028 billed yearly (250 monitors, unlimited voice/SMS credits)
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
- ✦Website, API and server uptime monitoring from multiple regions
- ✦Custom alert routing via Slack, phone, SMS and other channels
- ✦AI-powered root cause analysis for incidents
- ✦Automated, brandable public status pages
- ✦Domain expiration monitoring
- ✦Incident timelines and AI postmortems
- ✦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
- →Agencies monitoring uptime across many client sites
- →Startups getting alerted before downtime affects users
- →SaaS teams communicating incidents via a public status page
- →Reducing support tickets by automating incident updates
- →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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