Bark for Professionals
How much does Bark for Professionals cost?
Prices are current as of 11 Sept 2026.
3 one-time purchases from $71.90
In the United States, Bark for Professionals has 3 one-time purchases priced $71.90 – 244.99.
| Product | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 credit pack | $71.90 |
| 40 credit pack | $133.99 |
| 80 credit pack | $244.99 |
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Bark for Professionals reviews
4.3 out of 5, based on 7,079 reviews.
What people like
- Helps get hired for gigs.
- Can find good clients if you try.
- Easy to use interface.
What they complain about
- Many leads are fake or dead.
- Credits are expensive with no guarantee.
- Customers often ignore your messages.
- Support is unhelpful and slow.
Good
Good service
Time wasters
To many fake jobs & time wasters
My $.02
I am a member of a New Jersey based cover band. Trying to get gigs at local bars and pubs is not always easy. The end goal was to book corporate and private events. Enter Bark. I had never heard of them but I got an email saying that a local retirement home was looking for musicians to play a gig. I thought it was spam, but looked into it anyway. After some research, I bought $100 worth of credits. After about a month of use, we got our first booking for a private show. Does it work? Yes. Will you book every client you contact? Absolutely not, but you miss every shot you don’t take. The one thing about bark is that you should only be charged credits if you get hired. It’s not perfect, but it worked for us. Your mileage may vary.
Recent experience not as good
I have been using BARK for about 3 years now and actually it’s really helped me build out a nice book of business. The reason for the low rating is that recently I feel like the lead quality has gone downhill significantly - and this is from someone who has had success on your platform before. I have had numerous instances where I number has been showing as being verified by BARK and then when I contact it there is no response to my emails but when I phone the line never gets picked up and just goes dead. I have asked the support team the question (they have previously been really really helpful) about what is classed as a verified phone number and have not been given a proper answer. It’s a disgrace that numbers are showing as verified but rhen a couple times when I have got in touch with the person they have told me they have no idea what BARK is and aren’t even searching for any services at the moment. This is worrying proactive as makes me doubt the honesty of the leads being generated as it’s showing as verified but the number doesn’t work or the person has no idea what BARK IS. Now this has only happened a couple of times but it makes me wonder how many times I am contacting someone and not getting a response - I’m then just assuming they don’t want my services but actually the number might not be right or they may have no idea what BARK is. This feels like poor business. Again, this is from someone who HAS had quite a lot of success with this great platform - but recently it’s not been as good. Don’t rely on this as your main lead source as the leads are incredibly expensive - depending on prices you may need to find yourself needing to convert 3/4 people in order to pay for contacting 10 leads which is a very high close ratio
Die App aktualisiert sich nicht richtig
Die App ist grundsätzlich gut. Leider werden gesendete E-Mails nicht mit Datum angezeigt und die App aktualisiert sich nicht immer. Dadurch ist unklar, ob eine E-Mail an einen Kunden gesendet wurde. Das muss auf jeden Fall verbessert werden.
Successful business growth
Since I have teamed up with bark I have nothing but good leads and great entertainment opportunities. Not all leads pan out, but the ones that do has been a pleasure to work with. Customer service and going that extra mile makes a big difference. Bark keeps me busy and new leads keep coming. Thank you Bark Team from Our Dance Place.
“Serious Concerns About the Authenticity of Bark Leads”
I created an account on Bark because I was interested in using the platform to find customers for my services. However, before purchasing any credits, I decided to carefully examine how the platform actually works. After monitoring the platform for a while, I have reached the conclusion that I simply do not have enough confidence in what is being presented to me to spend any money on it. The app consistently shows me around 178 “matching leads”, yet when I check the map and try to see the actual jobs available in my area, I can only see around 15. So my question is very simple: where are the rest of the 178 leads? Furthermore, I have noticed that many of the same requests appear day after day. From the perspective of a business being asked to purchase credits simply to access contact details, this raises some serious questions. Bark does not guarantee me a customer or even a job. Essentially, I am being asked to pay for access to someone’s contact details, after which I still have to contact that person and find out whether they still need the service, whether they have already found someone else, whether they are still interested, and whether they will even respond to me. So what exactly am I paying for? Based on what I have observed, I have even started to question whether all of these leads genuinely represent real people who have actually requested these services. I am not claiming that Bark creates fake leads, but what I am seeing on the platform gives me reason to have this concern, and I would like a clear explanation from you. I would like to know how you verify that each lead comes from a real person, how you verify that the request is still active, and why the number of “matching leads” displayed is so different from what I can actually see on the map. This is precisely why I have not purchased any credits, and I do not intend to purchase any until Bark can provide a transparent explanation and give me confidence that the leads you are charging businesses to access genuinely come from real people who are actively looking for those services.
Good but expensive
Good but can work out expensive with no guarantee you’ll get leads.
Too Expensive For The Poor Quality Of Leads
2/5 Stars Unfortunately, my experience with Bark hasn’t been a positive one. The biggest issue is the cost of leads compared to the amount of information provided. Many job requests contain only a brief description, making it difficult to determine whether the work is genuinely suitable before paying for the lead. I also believe clients should be required to include an estimated budget in every job post. This would help professionals decide whether the project is commercially viable before spending money to make contact. Another frustration is that many people appear to be looking for free quotes or general advice rather than actively hiring someone. As a result, professionals can spend a significant amount on leads with very little return. Bark has the potential to be a great platform, but it would benefit from stricter job posting requirements, more detailed client information, mandatory budgets, and better filtering to ensure professionals are paying for genuine opportunities rather than speculative enquiries.
Pricing is too expensive for the ROI
I use Bark for my catering lead. While I do get responses from clients that book, those are two few and far between. For every 10 clients, POSSIBLY one of them will respond to you. And then when you have a valid reason for looking for a refund, like a phone number being disconnected, getting a ongoing busy signal, etc., There’s no recompense so money is lost on that as well.
Watch out for bogus listings
Wasted a lot of money on listing for people looking for employment. Some listings are legit but there are a lot of fakes and if they don’t get back to you in time and tell you they’re just looking for a job or if you can’t obtain proof from the listing theyre looking for a job you will not get reimbursed so be careful buying leads
It’s a Scam and it’s Fake
This app is a completely Scam, in my experience 90% jobs are fake, no one answer the phone or texts or emails and the Bark team not refund your money at all. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR BUILDERS
Not bad but could be improved.
The messaging system is confusing and it is very frustrating that you must spend money before you can even contact the lead. There should be a 5 person limit but the credits should be withdrawn once youre hired. 75% of the people don’t even reply to your initial message.
Not so great
I’ve been using Bark for almost 3 years. At the beginning the hit rate was about 50%. In the past few months, the leads are flooded with AI fakes. The cost went up while customer service is no longer helpful. Be aware.
App not quite up to website
Couple things make the app not work perfectly on iOS. So far I’ve found Cannot edit sms templates for some reason. Updates to client contact history are slow to appear, which as a new user is concerning. As far as getting any work or responses - I’m currently on zero replies for six leads bought, so my overall opinion of the platform is yet to be decided as I’ve gone for the hire guarantee promotion.
Bark Review
The worst part is being the first person to respond, spending money for the credits and someone else gets the job. unfortunately that’s the way businesses. All in all bar is pretty awesome.
Waste of money
I purchased 16 construction job leads through this app, but only 2 customers responded. Most of the phone numbers went unanswered, several were incorrect, and some didn’t even connect. I contacted customer support, but they refused to offer any solution or refund. Based on my experience, the leads were poor quality, and I feel I wasted my money. I would not recommend this service. Don’t be misled by the advertising—think carefully before spending your money here.
Really good
Helps a lot getting clients and easy go ✅
Surge in Prices
They completely increased prices and still allow pretend leads to be posted. Ridiculous money grab
Good
Really good for business use
Scam
If you are reading this and thinking to buy credits. Please stay away from this. They create fake ads and send them. Genuine ones are given to new members to lure them into buying more credits. If you see a bark post and you open it to find no longer available, then it is a genuine post but they dont show it to you as they are saving that one for a new bark trader to make them buy credits. STAY AWAY FROM THESE FRAUDSTERS
Fraud/Spam
Marking this review as 2 stars so it hopefully won’t get filtered out as spam or review bombing. I do not have a Bark account and didn’t know about Bark until today when someone on this site used my phone number to advertise. I have since gotten multiple text messages from people inquiring about that post. This app clearly does not have a satisfactory verification system in place to prevent fraudulent activity like this. If you do think this app would be helpful, I’d caution you to not spend money looking for leads or connections or whatever they call them. There is a good chance that you’ll be contacting a random person who has not even heard of this app prior to your contact attempt, like me. I have already reported multiple probably-valid phone numbers to my cellular provider as spam phone numbers. I emailed their complaint support team and got an auto reply asking for two working days to review my complaint due to “high volumes” of complaints. Avoid this app. There are better alternatives.
Next Level Life Coach
Bark is an awesome platform for connecting clients to needed services. It is easy to use and quick to send information about clients you select. However, recently the app has signed in out but will not let me sign in; it only shows the prompts for signing up to use the service. As a result, I no longer have access to my leads through the app, only the browser.
ONE STAR - after several years of business and 5* reviews on platform
⭐ One star — expensive leads, poor support and account restricted without proper evidence I had used Bark for several years through one business account. I later changed the email address on that same account to reflect a change in my business branding. Bark suddenly restricted my account, claiming that I had multiple accounts. I explained clearly that I had only one account and asked them to identify the alleged duplicate. They provided no account details or evidence. Instead, I received a generic message saying the matter had been escalated to another team. Th happened at a critical time and cost me an important business opportunity. A platform selling business leads should investigate properly before removing a professional’s access. I have also found Bark leads expensive for the value received. Professionals pay upfront simply to access contact information, but Bark’s own policy says credits are normally not returned when the customer does not respond or hires someone else. Even when a return is approved, the customer receives platform credits rather than their money back. This puts most of the financial risk on the small business purchasing the lead. Their published information also appears inconsistent. The Help Centre currently says credit-return requests can be made within 14 days, while the formal terms state seven days. Credits can expire, and Bark’s terms allow credit prices to be changed at its discretion. After years as a customer, I expected a proper explanation, evidence and a prompt resolution—not an unsupported allegation followed by a generic response. Based on the high cost of leads, limited financial protection and the way my account was handled, I cannot recommend Bark to other small businesses.
Fake jobs
Stay away from this app to many fake jobs i use around £200 i don’t take any jobs not give credit back ,you worst your money and time
With Elevate Concierge
We love using bark services & you just gotta keep going going and stay on top when the jobs post and don’t be scared to buy the credits so get on board now
Professional User
Literally no support other than generic patronising/not my problem responses and too many dead leads which leads many of us to believe that a percentage of the leads posted are fake, i don't use Bark much for this reason and the genuine leads are over priced too for the current climate
Not suitable for traders
I work as a multi trader, I tried to get some extra jobs from bark but to buy credit it’s very expensive. I buyed credits with £180 and I get that subscription whit £36 and in one month I managed to get one single job to tile a kitchen splash back…. Most of the people don’t respond to the phone or messages, and the bark don’t give any refund of the credits in this case… A lot of leads are fake and most of the people don’t give enough details in the leads and when bought a leads and go to job there it’s something else to be done extra and no refund for missing details …. I don’t recommend this platform
You’ve got to learn how to make it work
It’s a learning curve to figure out how to make this platform work and even then that doesn’t work every time. You have to look at the ROI and even then it’s gotta be over a one to one ratio and sometimes it’s pretty close.
1 star- waste of business traders money
I’m extremely disappointed with my experience using Bark. I spent over £200 on credits, trusting Bark’s advertising that leads would be genuine opportunities. Instead, I’ve found that many leads appear to have already found someone elsewhere before they’re even uploaded to the platform. On multiple occasions I’ve responded within seconds of receiving a lead. Bark even shows that I was the first professional to respond, yet I still receive messages saying the customer has already found someone. If that’s the case, the lead should never have been sold in the first place. What makes this even more frustrating is Bark’s credit refund policy. They advertise credit returns, but in reality they’ll often only refund credits if the customer never responds at all. If a customer replies saying they’ve already hired someone before the lead was uploaded, Bark still expects professionals to absorb the cost. That’s not a genuine business opportunity—it’s a wasted credit. As a small business owner, every pound matters. Paying for leads that were effectively dead before I even had a chance is incredibly disappointing and feels unfair. Bark needs to review how quickly leads are published and rethink its refund policy. If a customer has already hired someone before professionals have a realistic chance to quote, those credits should be refunded automatically. Until this issue is addressed, I can’t recommend Bark to other businesses. It has cost me money without providing the fair opportunities I paid for. Consider these facts before putting your hard earned money into bark
Expensive for No Return
Coins are far too expensive for the leads you get. The majority of potential leads are I came across are just testing the site out. Total waste of time and money.
Good service
They help me get hired for lot of gigs appreciate bark
Please, please do not buy credits
On the other hand, if you have unwanted money and a few days to waste, go for it.
Fake Leads, but if you are careful you can find real ones
I have no doubt Bark is doing something illegal and creating fake leads. But, I have it as a good add on for winter months when photography gigs are few. I have done some gigs with Bark. Only issue is the quality of clients is not great. So, please completely rely on Bark. Do your marketing regularly (refferals, Yelp, Google etc.). Also, Bark inflates leads if the client reaches to you directly or if you are a regular paying professional. So, always creat another account so you can confirm credits. In some ways it is like a casino. Good luck!
Best app so far which is working great
Easy job hunting and much better than last year. Customers are decent and response quickly.
Poor quality leads
We find the leads we pay for are not qualified and when we report this we just get a bad response, we are currently looking for a better platform to reach out to qualified customers as Bark are simply not improving and we are losing so much money in not being able to actually speak to the customers, or they are just not interested, money for old rope, perhaps we should set up our own system at least we would not pass on dead leads. You asked for a review now you have it, you should listen to complaints and improve your current poor service, we are not the only business who has this problem, as word goes around.
Dead leads
I may be the first to respond and if the poster responds he/ she will say you are fifth or sixth to call us. How is that possible?
Bark for Professionals price by country
A one-time purchase costs $57.19 in South Africa and $190.69 in Ireland — 3× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
| Country | One-time |
|---|---|
| Australia | A$204.99$148.54 |
| Canada | CA$153.99$111.59 |
| France | €111.99$129.77 |
| Germany | €111.99$130.52 |
| Ireland | €163.99$190.69 |
| New Zealand | NZ$209.99$122.80 |
| Singapore | SGD 174.98$137.78 |
| South Africa | ZAR 919.00$57.19 |
| United Kingdom | £112.99$153.10 |
| United States | $133.99 |
Bark for Professionals FAQ
- Is Bark for Professionals free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 10 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $71.90 (US), across 3 one-time purchases.
- Does Bark for Professionals have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is Bark for Professionals cheapest?
- A one-time purchase costs ZAR 919.00 (≈$57.19) in South Africa and €163.99 (≈$190.69) in Ireland, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to Bark for Professionals?
- Angi for Pros (3.9 from 39,049 reviews), Angi Services for Pros (4.6 from 38,825 reviews) and Housecall Pro: Field Service (4.6 from 30,490 reviews, premium from $39.99).
Bark for Professionals download
Last updated 1 month ago.
Bark for Professionals sells in 10 countries. It was released 9 years and 5 months ago, on 5 Apr 2017. It holds a 4.3 rating from 7,079 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does Bark for Professionals make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- One-time 100%
Revenue by country
- United Kingdom 40%
- United States 34%
- Canada 11%
- Australia 6%