Your Parental Controls Map

This one lives here instead of Inside the App because it works on the device itself. It scans photos and what's on the screen in real time, across whatever app your kid is using, so it behaves more like Screen Time or Family Link than like Bark. It also blocks categories, apps, and websites, sets downtime, and sends location alerts.

Link your own parent account to theirs to set a daily time limit, choose which maturity level of games they can play, control who can chat with them, cap monthly spending, and see their friends list.

There are three options depending on age: YouTube Kids, a supervised account for tweens, and supervised teen accounts. For younger kids, you can also see what they've been watching. The video link starts at the YouTube part of my Family Link guide.

Family Pairing links your TikTok account to theirs, so you'll need one of your own. You can block the app during school or bedtime and see who they follow and who follows them. You can't read their messages.

Teen Accounts start with the strictest content and messaging settings turned on. Add supervision from your own Instagram account to set a daily limit, block the app at night, and see who they've messaged in the past week, without reading the messages themselves.

You can see how much time they spend in the app, limit sensitive content, and stop My AI (Snapchat's chatbot) from replying to them. Ask them to share their live location with you and you'll get a heads-up when they arrive at or leave places like home or school. It shows time spent but doesn't limit it, and you can't read their chats.

See who they've added, messaged, and called, which servers (Discord's group chat spaces) they've joined, and what they've bought. You can choose who can send them friend requests and DMs, blur or block sensitive content, set a monthly spending cap, and schedule downtime when Discord is off. You can't read their messages.

Epic's controls cover Fortnite and its other games: daily time limits with a weekly playtime email, age-rating limits, who can voice and text chat with them, and a PIN before any real-money purchase.

Link your account to your teen's to add extra content protections, set quiet hours when it can't be used, and switch off features like voice mode and image generation. You can't see their chats. You'd only get a notification if there's a serious safety concern.

Bark connects into the accounts your kid actually uses (texts, email, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, Discord) and flags concerning content like cyberbullying, predatory behavior, and self-harm language, so you don't have to read every message yourself. What it can see depends on the phone: Discord, for example, is covered on Android but not on iPhone.

Synology calls its parental controls Safe Access: website filtering, time limits and schedules, and daily or weekly activity reports, all included.