Review signals only — 2 user-reported signals — from user reviews, not yet audited by Appworthy.
Reported by users
What reviewers said
Verbatim excerpts from public store reviews, shown as corroborating user reports. They are not Appworthy audit evidence, and a quotation is not proof of the finding it sits under.
Hard to cancel
Signed up for a year with week free trial that we could cancel anytime, already had a phone. Found out from customer service that we can't cancel until after the trial is over and was told that we will not receive any refund as they will…
horrible ... limited use with iphones .. setup is terrible.. only can be used on wifi and not mobile .. they make canceling a nightmare
horrible customer service. DO NOT forget your pin or your kids phone is stuck on settings it's on AND you can't cancel immediately or even at all that I've found bc no real person is in customer service. There is NO phone number and only…
Data & privacy concerns
was good, now selling your children's information... suddenly the phone downloaded YouTube and doesn't allow the app or anything to delete it. additionally it is letting the phone use it even though the app says it's disabled... your…
Absolute Invasion of Privacy — Do you really want some AI company to data mine & sell all of your kid’s personal info/habits/interests/moods/friends? We need to be much better custodians of our children’s privacy.
DO NOT DOWNLOAD — This app is absolute garbage. It’s invasive, glitchy, and a total waste of money. Customer service is useless and clearly doesn’t care about families’ privacy or safety. If you value your sanity, stay far away from Bark…
What this app sells
From the store listing. Billing terms are read from each purchase’s name — the stores don’t publish them — so treat them as a strong hint, not a disclosure.
How a review signal works
A review signal is produced automatically from public app reviews by a classifier — never by a hands-on Appworthy test, and never by a human analyst. It exists so a real, not-yet-audited app can carry more than a blank “Not yet tested” listing, without ever being mistaken for an assessment.
A theme only appears above once at least 5 distinct reviews corroborate it — one angry review can never tag an app. These thresholds are published settings and may be tuned as coverage grows.
It carries no confirmed findings — reviews are one kind of evidence, and nothing here has been hands-on tested. The moment Appworthy publishes a full assessment of this app, it replaces this signal, permanently.
A human review replaces this review-derived signal with hands-on, recorded measurements.
Hands-on inspections are not yet open.