Best women safety apps

With the rising crimes against women in India, Government is taking steps for women’s safety, technology can play an important part in that too.

Read on to know about few safety apps listed below:

Safetipin- Safetipin is fairly a good app aimed at the safety of women. It is designed for personal safety and incorporates all essential features such as GPS tracking, emergency contact numbers, directions to safe locations and more. The app ‘pins’ the safe areas along with their safety scores to go at the time of a problem. It also allows users to pin unsafe areas and help others. Besides English, Safetipin is accessible in Hindi, Bahasa, and Spanish languages

VithU: V Gumrah Initiative- A admired emergency app that’s activated as soon as the user push the Power button on smartphone twice. It can send out an alert message to user’s emergency contacts every two minutes. The message reads “I am in danger. I need help. Please follow my location.” Along with this, the app sends the link of users’ location every two minutes to provide the receiver with updated location details.

Raksha - This app is prepared with a button which, when tapped, right away sends the user’s location to particular contacts. It’s likely to choose the contacts that can see the user’s location. Moreover, if the app is switched off and not working, even then it can send alerts. All the user has to do is press the volume key for three seconds. The app has SOS functionality and can send emergency SMS messages even when there’s no internet connectivity.

Himmat- Recommended by  Delhi Police, This can be used by doing registration on the Delhi Police website. Once registration is complete, an OTP is sent to the user, which has to be entered to complete the app’s configuration. If a user initiates SOS alert from the app, her location information and audio/video are directly transmitted to the Delhi Police control room, allowing the police to reach the user easily.

Stay Secure- A free safety app for women, Stay Secure is planned to lend a hand in situations of pain. The app can be activated by pressing the Power button five times and automatically sends an alert to user’s emergency contacts. It also has a free SOS SMS feature which can send a text to five of user’s saved contacts within five minutes. Stay Secure also allows the user’s saved contacts to keep a track of her location and can work without data connectivity.

Women Safety- This app can notify the user’s contacts of her location with just a tap of a button. Women Safety can send an SMS to a preconfigured number, along with the user’s location and a link to the server. The app encompasses three colour-coded buttons based on the significance of the situation, which can be used accordingly.

Smart24x7- Supported by the police of various states,  intended to make sure the safety of women and senior citizens. The app sends terror alerts to emergency contacts in difficult situations. It also records voices and takes photos during panic situations, and can even transfer these details to the police. It also has call center support, which can be used to track down the primary movements of the user. The user just needs to press the panic button, select the type of service required and finally tap the submit button.

Chilla- Extremely small in size, Chilla is a personal safety app that can be activated with just a yell. If a woman is suffering, she should scream deafeningly to trigger an alarm in the app. The app can then send the user’s location to her guardian even when the phone is locked. Chilla comes with an SOS feature too. If the distraught user presses the power button five times, the app can automatically alert pre-configured contacts. It can also send an SMS with the user’s location and email, in addition to being able to place a call.

Shake2Safety- Probably the simplest to use app among this list, the user with Shake2Safety just needs to shake their smartphone or press the power button four times to send an SOS text or call to the pre-registered numbers. The amazing part is, this works even when there’s no internet connection. Moreover, users have the capability to make active or deactivate the option of shaking the device to send alerts. The app can be used in case of accident, harassment, robbery or other natural calamities.

bSafe- This app makes certain the safety and security of women. It lets the contacts to follow a user through a live GPS trail and also set a timed alarm which goes off automatically, in case a user doesn’t ‘check in’. Moreover, it can make the user’s phone ring with a fake call and also notifies emergency contacts of the user’s location details. Along with this, there is a Guardian Alert button, which can be used to immediately inform the contacts of the user’s GPS location during times of distress.

Source:http://www.gadgetsnow.com/featured/10-best-women-safety-apps/articleshow/57535322.cms