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Bark Phone vs Best Buy Cell Phones For Kids: Which Is Best?
Created in collaboration with parents, the Bark Phone provides families with our award-winning parental controls that allow parents to completely customize phone access and monitor phone activity. Best Buy offers a variety of options for kids, like flip phones, standard smart phones, toys, and dummy cell phones. These are not always designed specifically for kids today and parental controls are not included.

Why the Bark Phone is Better than Best Buy Kids Cell Phones
Out-of-the-box parental controls
The Bark Phone comes with easy-to-use parental controls out of the box. Parents can customize phone activity with no extra apps required. Most Best Buy cell phones for kids require a third party app or multiple phone settings to set parental controls.
Get alerts for concerning content
Bark’s advanced monitoring technology alerts parents to digital dangers in their child’s texts, emails, and social media accounts. This is not offered with most parental control apps or out-of-the-box kids phone options at Best Buy.
Approve apps & contacts
Choose what apps are off-limits to your kids and approve new phone contacts. Bark lets you manage everything your child can access on their phone. For most phone carriers, a third party app is required and may not include these features.
Save with an all-inclusive phone plan
Bark offers no contract phone plans and the phone is free after 3-months of service. Most Best Buy phones require a phone plan to be purchased along with the device.
Rest assured your kid can’t delete texts
With the Bark Phone, there’s no way that kids can erase messages they send or receive. Best Buy phones do not currently offer text message monitoring. A third party app, like Bark, would be required for phone monitoring.
Remotely lock the phone & set time limits
Bark enables parents to set app-specific time limits and easily configure the phone for calls and texts only, with no internet access, with the click of a button. Best Buy’s smart phones require additional phone settings or a third-party apps to set time limits depending on the phone model.
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Pricing & Details
Choose a plan that fits your family's needs. All plans include:
- Unlimited talk and text
- Exclusive features like undeletable texts, location tracking, remote phone lock, and more
- Advanced content monitoring built in
- USB-C charging cord
- A Bark Premium subscription for the entire family
- Free transfer of your kid's current phone number to the Bark Phone
- Month-to-month with no contract
- Free shipping


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Bark Phone FAQs
The Bark Phone for kids is a Samsung A series. We purposely designed it so that it wouldn’t be recognizable as a “kiddie” phone. No one will know it’s a kid phone unless you tell them. Bark’s powerful parental controls are all internal — there’s no Bark branding, logos, or other tell-tales that would broadcast it as a kid’s phone.
It comes with all the standard features of a Samsung phone.
Regardless of whether a parent has an iPhone or an Android, they will be able to manage the Bark Phone with no issues, so don’t worry about compatibility problems.
The Bark Phone for kids is the result of years of experience in the online safety industry and real-life conversations with the people whose opinion counts the most: families raising kids with phones in the digital age.
We’ve created a safe phone for kids that integrates Bark’s software seamlessly, resulting in a comprehensive and robust parental control experience.
It also comes with exclusive features that weren’t possible with just a downloadable app. The Bark Phone gives parents unprecedented oversight of their child’s online experience, including GPS-powered location tracking, call blocking, contact management, and automatic monitoring for texts and many apps and social media platforms.
Its native controls are tamper-proof, providing parents with peace of mind that the rules they set stay in place. Bark can't be deleted, even if you factory reset it.
The best part of the Bark Phone? It grows with your child as they mature. For younger kids, you can keep the phone locked down with as little functionality as a flip phone. As they get older, you can add in additional freedoms, functionality, and apps — or scale back anytime boundaries are needed.
Every Bark Phone comes with:
- Unlimited talk and text
- Bark Premium subscription for the entire family
- USB-C charging cord
- A data plan that fits your family’s needs (non-starter plans only)
- Quick start guide for easy setup
If you already have a Bark Premium subscription, that’s okay! We will adjust your plan and prorate the remaining amount left and apply it to your Bark Phone subscription.
The Bark Phone is free! No hefty deposit or long contract is required, and after 90 days, the phone is yours to keep. We’re confident your family will love the Bark Phone, but if you need to cancel your subscription, just return your non-damaged phone to us and you’re all set.
Our monthly subscription plans range from $29/month to $89/month.
Plans include the device, our built-in parental controls, unlimited talk & text, data (if you need it), and a Bark Premium subscription for the entire family.
Choose the plan that fits your family's needs.
Starter plan:
- $29/month for unlimited talk, text, and no internet, app store, or games
Advanced plans:
- $49/month for unlimited talk, text, and Wi-Fi only (no data)
- $59/month for unlimited talk, text, and 4GB data
- $69/month for unlimited talk, text, and 8GB data
- $89/month for unlimited talk, text, and data1
1 After exceeding 35GB/month of data use, data speeds will be reduced for the remainder of the monthly billing cycle. After exceeding 50GB/month of data usage, data speeds may be reduced further and/or data connection may be turned off for the remainder of the monthly billing cycle.
Right now, the Bark Phone for kids is only available for families located in the U.S.
You know your child best, which is why the Bark Phone gives you full control over the apps they can access. You can block every app that a Samsung A series could download, or you can allow them all — or somewhere in between, which is where most families will fall.
The Bark Phone is powered by the award-winning technology that made the Bark app a trusted name for families across the world. It’s the result of years of experience understanding what families need and want when it comes to having a safe phone for kids.
Secondly, we made it completely customizable, because every family — and kid — is different. For younger kids, you can make the Bark Phone work essentially like a non-smartphone. As they get older and become ready for more responsibility, you can add in functionality and access to web browsing, apps, social media, and more.
Yes! The Bark Phone is updated regularly and automatically to keep up with changes in technology and when we add new features — which happens frequently! We’re constantly in touch with actual Bark Phone parents and implement feedback that families would like to see.
You can cancel at any time, but if you decide to cancel within the first 90 days, you’ll need to send the Bark Phone back.
If you cancel after three months, the phone is yours to keep, but Bark’s proprietary parental controls and monitoring will be removed from the device.
If you have further questions you can contact us for help.
Our amazing customer support team is here to help! Simply email them with your initial questions and they’ll get back to you promptly — many customers benefit from a one-on-one Zoom or phone call. Additionally, you can check out all of our support articles here.
The Specs

- What's Included
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Device
Data cable
Quick start guide - Product Name
- A14
- Brand
- Samsung
- Phone Style
- Smartphone
- Operating System
- Android 13
- Internal Memory
- 64 GB
- Screen Size
- 6.6 inches
- Water Resistant
- No
- Phone Memory (RAM)
- 4 GB
- Front-Facing Camera
- 13 MP
- Rear-Facing Camera
- 50 MP
- Processor Model
- Octa core (2.2Ghz + 2.0Ghz)
- Internet Connectable
- Yes, but not with Starter Plan
- Voice Assistant Built-in
- Google Assistant
- Wireless Technology
- 5G
- Color
- Black
- Bluetooth Enabled
- Yes
- Charging Interface
- USB Type-C
- Carrier
- Data and coverage provided by Bark
- Email Capable
- Yes, but not with Starter Plan
- Built-In GPS
- Yes
- Sensors
- Accelerometer, barometer, fingerprint sensor, geomagnetic sensor, proximity sensor, gyro sensor, RBG light sensor
- Voice Activated
- Yes
- Wireless Charging
- No
- Headphone Jack
- Yes
- Display Type
- HD+
- Screen Resolution
- 2408 x 1080
- Touch Screen
- Yes
- Integrated Camera
- Yes, Front and Back
- Battery Capacity
- 5000 milliampere hours
- Camera Resolution (Front)
- 13 MP
- Camera Resolution (Rear)
- 50.0 MP + 2.0 MP + 2.0 MP
- Video Recording Resolution
- FHD (1920 x 1080)@30fps
- Main Camera - Flash
- Yes
- Main Camera - Auto Focus
- Yes
- Front Camera - F Number
- F2.0
- Front Camera - Auto Focus
- No
- Main Camera - F Number (Multiple)
- F1.8, F2.4, F2.4
Get the only phone with Bark built in
Designed from the ground up with safety in mind, the Bark Phone will change the way you think about a kid’s phone.
