Bark vs Senso.cloud
Bark
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Senso.cloud
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| Figure | Bark | Senso.cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4.08/mo | £0.08/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 20 | 8 |
| Spec score · Internet Filtering Software | 8.5 (#10) | 7.9 (#28) |
| Content filtering | Yes | Its content-filtering service claims over 99.9% coverage of active web traffic and over 99% categorisation accuracy using AI and human verification. |
| Headquarters | Charlotte, North Carolina, United States | Nottingham, England, United Kingdom |
Plans
Bark
- Bark Jr$5 a month
- Bark Premium$14 a month
- Bark Home Monthly Lease$6 a month
- Bark Sync Monthly Lease$6 a month
- Bark Phone Finance$10 a month
- Bark Watch Device$10 a month
- Bark Watch Wireless$15 a month
- Family Wireless 4GB$15 a month
- Family Wireless 8GB$20 a month
- Bark Phone Pro Finance$25 a month
Senso.cloud
- Senso for Microsoft Teams£1 a year
- Asset Cloud£2 a year
- Content Filtering£2 a year
- Class Cloud£3 a year
- Network Cloud£3 a year
- Safeguard Cloud£4.50 a year
- Enterprise Cloud£6.50 a year
- Service DeskPriced on request
In their own words
Bark
Bark is a paid parental-control service for Android and iOS, with plans starting at $5/mo and a 7-day trial. Its listed tools include content filtering, screen-time schedules, app blocking, activity reports, and location tracking. Bark Premium sends alerts about concerns such as bullying, self-harm, and online predators. Bark Jr lets parents schedule screen time and block internet access for apps and sites; its listed plan covers unlimited children and devices. Other offerings extend beyond the app: Bark Home filters the web and manages screen time for devices connected to home Wi-Fi, including platforms beyond iOS, Android, and Chromebook. Bark Phone has parental controls built in. Bark also offers phone, watch, and wireless plans. Family Wireless options have data limits: speeds are reduced after 35GB and may reduce further or stop after 50GB. Wireless plans do not support hotspots. Support is available daily from 8am to 12am Eastern Time. Bark is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Senso.cloud
Senso.cloud combines classroom, network, safeguarding and asset management in a platform designed for schools, districts, students, teachers and IT teams. It also offers employee device monitoring for businesses. Depending on the modules selected, teams can monitor activity, view live screens, filter web content and manage devices. Safeguarding features include logging and blocking, raising concerns, and monitoring Microsoft Teams chat for inappropriate messages and images. Class Instructor integrates with Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom and ClassLink, with sync support for Azure AD, Teams and Google Classroom. The platform runs on Microsoft Azure, where each organization has its own tenancy. Senso says its cloud can scale from a room with 30 machines to deployments involving tens of thousands of machines. Modules are independently designed and interchangeable, and granular permissions let organizations assign tools and data access by role. Supported platforms include Windows, Chrome OS, macOS and iOS. The macOS client is being released in stages; the first release lacks a background service at the logon screen. Listed plans start at £1.00 per user or device per year, depending on the module. There is no free plan, and trials are offered at Senso's discretion.