Bark - Parental Controls
70
Quality Score
Strong
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Bark - Parental Controls is an iOS app from Bark Technologies, Inc. in the Productivity category, currently rated 4.2★ across 33,702 ratings. Initial signal reads as mostly critical sentiment so far: users flag rough edges and unmet expectations.
Quality Score is 70: Strong (healthy traction). For a Productivity app, that means healthy traction. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$5.0K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$5.2K – $10.8K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$6.4K – $19.2K
per month
MID tierFREE
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📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
237 snapshots on record
Rating
4.2
Reviews
33,702 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$5.0K
Snapshots tracked
237
since Apr 2024
🤖Also on Android
$28/mo · 10K ratings · 4.1★
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ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$100K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $75K – $135K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~1.7y at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| ⚙ Productivity complexity ×1.10 | +$5K |
| ⚙ 7.0y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$42K |
Total estimate
$100K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$100K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $75K – $125K · 19× MRR multiple
💸
~1.0× build cost (break-even+)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 7.0y proven track record | +20% |
| 🏷 Productivity category multiple | +8% |
Final multiple
19× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
1.8M
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
365K
Daily active
160K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Productivity engagement | ~75 installs / rating |
| 📅 7.0y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Productivity D30 retention | 30% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.45 |
DAU / MAU
44% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 70%
Also possible
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 30 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Productivity |
| 📦 Small-mid iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
15%
Last shipped 2026-07-03 · 86 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 86 days since last update | Healthy release cadence |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$5.0K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
Direction
Headwinds: review-mined risks present
6 months
$4.7K – $7.9K
12 months
$5.2K – $10.8K
24 months
$6.4K – $19.2K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Stalled · 33/100MID TIERFREE (NO MONETIZATION)no growth momentumGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.5
Product Quality
7.0
Revenue Strength
3.7
Monetization Maturity
0.5
Defensibility
5.2
Market Position
0.6
Operational Safety
0.8
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $3K - $7K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 4.23★ across 33,702 reviews — solid.
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: Insufficient signal to assess trajectory.
- ⚠️ Risk: High — 4.0% refund mentions, 6% subscription complaints, scam/fraud mentions detected.
🎯 For competitors: Vulnerable. Quality drift + slow updates create a clear opening for a fresh competitor with active dev cadence.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 12-22× monthly = $60K-$110K. Discount applied for operational risk..
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 14 of 14 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (33,702 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| worth every pennyREVIEW | +$2,000 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| cancelledREVIEW | −$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 | |
| support teamREVIEW | +$900 | |
| priceyREVIEW | −$800 | |
| Good rating (4.2★)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Established app (7y old)METRIC | +$800 | |
| Ad-supported / freemiumMETRIC | +$600 | |
| Single-language (English only)METRIC | −$400 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v6.4.1
Bug fixes and improvements.
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Bark - Parental Controls
- Developer
- Bark Technologies, Inc.
- Bundle ID
- us.bark.barkconnectiosapp
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Productivity
- Content rating
- 12+
- Languages
- EN
Company
- Website
- Not found
- Tagline
- Today
- Description
- Find apps and games for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more on the App Store.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $5.0K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇺🇸#55 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
Contacts & Socials data not yet collected for this app.
📈Ratings growth35,544 ratings+7274% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🗺️Geographic Distribution1 of 9 markets
🇺🇸
US
Top-grossing rank: #55 / 100
Other markets
Outside top 100
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
in US, GB, DE, FR, JP, CA, AU, BR, IN
This app currently ranks in only one of the 9 markets we monitor. Niche or regional apps often launch this way before global rollout. Rankings update daily.
📊Category Rank Trajectory#55 now · best #55 · worst #56
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
Bark provides families with all the tools they need to raise kids in the digital age. Our comprehensive service lets you monitor content, manage screen time, and filter websites so you can get peace of mind while your child is online.
CONTENT MONITORING
Bark monitors your child’s texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and social media platforms for issues like cyberbullying, adult content, sexual predators, profanity, suicidal ideation, threats of violence, and more. Parents receive alerts only when something potentially problematic occurs online.… View full description on the official store →
CONTENT MONITORING
Bark monitors your child’s texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and social media platforms for issues like cyberbullying, adult content, sexual predators, profanity, suicidal ideation, threats of violence, and more. Parents receive alerts only when something potentially problematic occurs online.… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 30 MB🔞 12+📱 iOS 15.1+🔖 v6.4.1🔄 updated 2mo ago🌐 EN📂 Productivity💰 Free🚀 Launched 2019 (7y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
18 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v6.3.3 → v6.4.1
→ 30 days after: reviews +565 high confidence
2026-05
📦
Bundle ↑ 23MB → 31MB — likely major code refresh
→ 30 days after: reviews +537 medium · co-occurring
2026-05
🔧
Shipped update — v6.2.0 → v6.3.3
→ 30 days after: reviews +537 medium · co-occurring
2026-04
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v6.2.0
→ 30 days after: reviews +456 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.68 → 4.23 (improved 2.55★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +358 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +358 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +2.55★ · reviews +32,852 high confidence
2024-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +13 high confidence
2024-09
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.05★ · reviews +26 high confidence
2024-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +22 high confidence
2024-07
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +23 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.24★ · reviews +23 high confidence
2024-05
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.00 → 2.33 (improved 0.33★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2024-05
⭐
Rating ↑ 1.50 → 1.86 (improved 0.36★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2024-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2024-04
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.00 → 1.50 (dropped 0.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2024-04
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.17★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
🗣
Voice of Customer
Based on 150 reviews across 1 markets● 42% positive · ● 5% neutral · ● 53% negative · Rating drift: -2.79★ (declining — recent 50: 1.44★ vs lifetime: 4.23★)
VADER compound sentiment per quarter (−1 = fully negative, +1 = fully positive). Each point ≥ 5 reviews.
Top praise themes
phone ×11 update ×5 kids ×5 off ×4 only ×4 working ×4 vpn ×4 now ×3
Top complaint themes
waste money ×12 doesn work ×10 customer service ×9 user friendly ×8 turn off ×6 child phone ×6 kids phone ×6 monitor child ×5
Risk signals
Refund mentions: 4.0% Subscription complaints: 6% Fraud / scam mentions: 2.0%
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 2 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 4.06161★ | 357 | 4.06161★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 4.25★ | 35,803 | 4.25★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Bark - Parental Controls: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
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About this analysis
Why high confidence: 33,702 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Bark - Parental Controls make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Bark - Parental Controls earns approximately $5.0K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Bark - Parental Controls profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $100K and monthly revenue $5.0K, Bark - Parental Controls looks break-even-grade — payback period sits around 1.7 years. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Bark - Parental Controls have?▴
Estimated audience: ~1.8M lifetime downloads, ~365K monthly active users, and ~160K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Bark - Parental Controls?▴
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What is Bark - Parental Controls built with?▴
Our heuristic places Bark - Parental Controls on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 70%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: Flutter.
Is Bark - Parental Controls still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (15% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 2 months ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Bark - Parental Controls sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $100K (marketplace range $75K – $125K). Calculated as 19× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Bark - Parental Controls last updated?▴
Bark - Parental Controls last shipped a new version on 2026-07-03 — 2 months ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Bark - Parental Controls?▴
Bark - Parental Controls is published by Bark Technologies, Inc. on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Bark - Parental Controls's BU Score?▴
Bark - Parental Controls has a BU Score of 70/100 (Strong). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.