Straight Talk by Nimfa L. Estrellado Today, different mobile app development companies worldwide are working on various innovative an...
Straight Talk
by Nimfa L. Estrellado
Today, different mobile app development companies worldwide are working on various innovative and unique app ideas. Developers are devoting themselves to come up with easy-to-use user-centric apps having a creative concept. Thus, women safety apps are becoming popular in the market.
Sexual assault, domestic violence, rape etc. are some of the alarming issues that women face these days! To diminish the chances of happening such remorseful crimes, taking necessary measures on time as soon as you can sense any trouble is advisable. In today’s tech-savvy era, plenty of mobile apps are available in the market that can help the women to get instant help in the case of an emergency or dangerous situation. Such women security apps can avert the risk along with providing necessary help in the time of need. Here is a list of a few competent apps that are extremely handy for women.
Hollaback. This app is very useful to avert any kind of street harassment. Women can take picture of the harasser and can share this “caught in the act” picture instantly along with the story on the ihollaback.org. This would definitely awake the sense among the public and the shared story and picture of the harasser would stop other perverts to get into similar kind of nuisance activities. Hollaback is available for both Android as well as iOS platform and the user can get this application for free of cost.
Circle of 6 . you pick six friends or family members to be in your circle, then every time you need to be picked up or want them to call/text you, you can hit the car, phone, or chat icons in the app. There’s also a danger button that you can activate to reach hotlines for victims of sexual or domestic abuse.
Scream Alarm. This free app is very simple: There’s one button that you push and the phone screams loudly in a woman’s voice. Yeah, you wouldn’t want to accidentally push this when you’re out, but everyone’s been in a situation where they would feel safer knowing their finger is poised over that attention-getting button.
bSafeUsing bSafe, women can select a set of “Guardians”, to whom SOS message would reach with just a simple push on a button. In the free version of bSafe, one of the guardians would get an automatic call as well. All the guardians would receive text messages along with the exact GPS location of the victim. Another interesting feature offered by the app is the victim can program a ‘Fake Incoming Call’ in the case of emergency. Obviously, the subscription version of this app comes with more facilities such as the ‘Timer Mode’ for automated alarm activation and the ‘Risk Mode’ with the facilities of GPS tracking in real-time. bSafe is available for Android, iPhone and Blackberry.
cab4me.Sensing trouble? Call and get a cab at any time, at anywhere using this extremely favourable application. If you switch to call tab, you would get an entire list of the local companies providing cabs to hire from your chosen place.
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You would have authority to choose the payment method and car type. If the database is not showing any cab company, you can do a web search based on the locality showing results.
Watch Over Me. It’s not as if you can just ask your attacker to wait a second while you open an app and hit an alarm on your phone, which is why Watch Over Me is one of our favorite personal safety apps. Instead of requiring you to hit a button to send out an emergency alert, the app activates when you simply shake your phone, even if the cell is locked. Shaking will turn on your alarm and video camera and send an alert to emergency contacts. Smart. Other than all the above-mentioned applications, Guardly is another popular application on which women can depend in the case of an emergency. Hence, make sure to have such apps on your smartphones and keep yourself safe!
Today, different mobile app development companies worldwide are working on various innovative and unique app ideas. Developers are devoting themselves to come up with easy-to-use user-centric apps having a creative concept. Thus, women safety apps are becoming popular in the market.Sexual assault, domestic violence, rape etc. are some of the alarming issues that women face these days! To diminish the chances of happening such remorseful crimes, taking necessary measures on time as soon as you can sense any trouble is advisable. In today’s tech-savvy era, plenty of mobile apps are available in the market that can help the women to get instant help in the case of an emergency or dangerous situation. Such women security apps can avert the risk along with providing necessary help in the time of need. Here is a list of a few competent apps that are extremely handy for women.
Hollaback. This app is very useful to avert any kind of street harassment. Women can take picture of the harasser and can share this “caught in the act” picture instantly along with the story on the ihollaback.org. This would definitely awake the sense among the public and the shared story and picture of the harasser would stop other perverts to get into similar kind of nuisance activities. Hollaback is available for both Android as well as iOS platform and the user can get this application for free of cost.
Circle of 6 . you pick six friends or family members to be in your circle, then every time you need to be picked up or want them to call/text you, you can hit the car, phone, or chat icons in the app. There’s also a danger button that you can activate to reach hotlines for victims of sexual or domestic abuse.
Scream Alarm. This free app is very simple: There’s one button that you push and the phone screams loudly in a woman’s voice. Yeah, you wouldn’t want to accidentally push this when you’re out, but everyone’s been in a situation where they would feel safer knowing their finger is poised over that attention-getting button.
bSafeUsing bSafe, women can select a set of “Guardians”, to whom SOS message would reach with just a simple push on a button. In the free version of bSafe, one of the guardians would get an automatic call as well. All the guardians would receive text messages along with the exact GPS location of the victim. Another interesting feature offered by the app is the victim can program a ‘Fake Incoming Call’ in the case of emergency. Obviously, the subscription version of this app comes with more facilities such as the ‘Timer Mode’ for automated alarm activation and the ‘Risk Mode’ with the facilities of GPS tracking in real-time. bSafe is available for Android, iPhone and Blackberry.
cab4me.Sensing trouble? Call and get a cab at any time, at anywhere using this extremely favourable application. If you switch to call tab, you would get an entire list of the local companies providing cabs to hire from your chosen place.
...Turn to p/4
You would have authority to choose the payment method and car type. If the database is not showing any cab company, you can do a web search based on the locality showing results.
Watch Over Me. It’s not as if you can just ask your attacker to wait a second while you open an app and hit an alarm on your phone, which is why Watch Over Me is one of our favorite personal safety apps. Instead of requiring you to hit a button to send out an emergency alert, the app activates when you simply shake your phone, even if the cell is locked. Shaking will turn on your alarm and video camera and send an alert to emergency contacts. Smart. Other than all the above-mentioned applications, Guardly is another popular application on which women can depend in the case of an emergency. Hence, make sure to have such apps on your smartphones and keep yourself safe!
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