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Bark Phone vs Metro Phones for Kids & Teens: Which Is the Best Option?
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. Metro offers a variety of options for kids, like flip phones, standard smart phones, or prepaid phones. These are not always designed specifically for kids today and parental controls are not included.

Why the Bark Phone is Better than MetroPCS Kids Phones & Plans
Out-of-the-box parental controls
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. Metro phones 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.
No contract & phone plan options
Bark offers two phone plans — month-to-month with no contract or a 2-year contract option. Metro only offers prepaid phone contracts that are 1 to 2 years in length.
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.
Rest assured your kid can’t delete texts without permission
With the Bark Phone, you manage when and if your child can delete texts. Metro phones do not currently offer text message 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. Metro phones require additional phone settings or a third-party app to set time limits depending on the phone model.
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Pricing & Details
Choose between $0 down and a 2-year contract or $199 down with no contract.
- Bark Phone with USB-C charging cord
- Comes with a subscription to Bark Premium for the entire family
- Includes exclusive Bark Phone features like undeletable texts, location tracking, remote phone lock, and more
- Free transfer of your kid's current phone number to the Bark Phone
- Unlimited talk and text with data plans that fit your family’s needs
- 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.
- USB-C charging cord
- Unlimited talk and text
- A data plan that fits your family’s needs
- Bark Premium subscription for the Bark Phone as well as for all of the other devices and accounts in your family
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.
Bark offers families two convenient purchase options for your child’s Bark Phone — choose between $0 down and a 2-year contract or $199 down with no contract. We have four monthly service options to fit your needs:
- $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
Each phone plan comes with a Bark Premium subscription and will cover any other kids, devices, and accounts your family has. You won’t pay for an extra Bark subscription if you already have Bark Premium — we will adjust your plan and prorate the remaining amount left and apply it to the subscription.
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.
The Specs

- What's Included
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Device
Data cable
Quick start guide - Product Name
- A Series
- Brand
- Samsung
- Phone Style
- Smartphone
- Operating System
- Android 12
- Internal Memory
- 32 GB
- Screen Size
- 6.6 inches
- Water Resistant
- No
- Phone Memory (RAM)
- 3 GB
- Front-Facing Camera
- 8 MP
- Rear-Facing Camera
- 50 MP
- Processor Model
- Exynos 850
- Internet Connectable
- Yes
- Voice Assistant Built-in
- Google Assistant
- Wireless Technology
- 2G, 3G, 4G, 4G LTE, LTE
- Color
- Black
- Bluetooth Enabled
- Yes
- Charging Interface
- USB Type C
- Carrier
- Data and coverage provided by Bark
- Email Capable
- Yes
- Built-In GPS
- Yes
- Sensors
- Accelerometer, barometer, fingerprint sensor, geomagnetic sensor, proximity sensor
- Voice Activated
- Yes
- Wireless Charging
- No
- Headphone Jack
- Yes
- Display Type
- LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 2400 x 1080
- Touch Screen
- Yes
- Integrated Camera
- Yes, Front and Back
- Battery Capacity
- 5000 milliampere hours
- Camera Resolution (Front)
- 8.0 MP
- Camera Resolution (Rear)
- 50.0 MP + 5.0 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
- F2.2
- Front Camera - Auto Focus
- No
- Main Camera - F Number (Multiple)
- F1.8, F2.2, 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.
