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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
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Canopy
✓ verifiedPaid
AI content filter and parental-control app that strips explicit material from sites, social, and AI chatbots without full blocking.
1.5M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 /forever
Premium: $5.99 /month
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
Solo: $8.33/mo (1 device, billed annually)
Multiple: $9.99/mo (up to 5 devices)
Individual: $8.33/mo (up to 3 devices)
Family: $9.99/mo (up to 10 devices)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦AI personalization for tailored activities based on interests and available materials
- ✦Weekly delivery of fresh, screen-free activities (1 for free, 5 for premium users)
- ✦Family-focused activities designed to strengthen bonds and create memories
- ✦Activities categorized by age groups, from toddlers to preteens, matching developmental stages
- ✦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
- ✦Real-time explicit-content filtering
- ✦AI chatbot filtering (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok)
- ✦Sexting detection and alerts
- ✦Screen-time limits and app blocking
- ✦Removal-prevention anti-tampering
- ✦Location alerts and social monitoring
Use cases
- →Parents looking for engaging science experiments like a kitchen volcano explosion using common ingredients.
- →Families wanting creative building projects such as transforming cardboard boxes into a city.
- →Kids learning basic cooking skills by making no-bake energy balls with pantry staples.
- →Children enjoying problem-solving and critical thinking through an indoor treasure hunt.
- →Alerting parents to online dangers
- →Limiting and scheduling kids' screen time
- →Filtering inappropriate content
- →Tracking a child's location
- →Protect children from explicit content online
- →Prevent sexting on a child's device
- →Set healthy screen-time boundaries
- →Personal content filtering for adults
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