We have here a list of 15 apps built with personal safety for women in mind, made for Android. Most of these apps are free.
Top 15 free apps for women safety
1. Damini:
If this app is in your mobile, then the message will be sent to your registered numbers through it at the time of any threat. Your GPS location will also go to these numbers in a while. Not only this, once the app is activated, it also starts taking photos of the place and sends them to the registered numbers, as well as saving it on the cloud. After this, even if the mobile phone is turned off or broken, video and call details can be removed from the mobile.
Size: 1.1 MB
Platform: Android
Price: Free
2. Circle of 6:
Although it is specially designed keeping college-going students in mind, it can prove to be useful for all women. In case of any problem, the message of help will be passed on to your friends with just one tap. This app is also available in Hindi and there are already feeds in the helpline numbers of Delhi.
Size: 12 MB
Platform: Android
Price: Free
3. bSafe:
With the help of this app you can alert the family member or close people in the event of a crisis. In this, the numbers of family members or close people have to be fed, which if needed, the message will go away with the press of a button. Also, the call will automatically go away. By turning on its risk mode, you can share your GPS location with the given number.
Size: 5.9 MB
Platform: Android, iOS and Blackberry
Price: Free 4.
4. Scream Alarm! :
The simplicity of this app is its specialty. This is a loud sounding app. In case of any kind of danger, you can make a loud sound like a woman scream by pressing a button. This sound alerts the people around.
Size: 951 KB
Platform: Android
Price: Free
5. SafetiPin:
This is an attempt to ensure women's safety in a special way. This is a platform where people give information about such places in their area, which are not safe for women. People can share pictures of those places on this app and rate them in terms of safety. The app also helps to know which place is not safe at night or at any time of day.
Size: 6.4 MB - 20.3 MB
Platform: iOS, Android
Price: Free
6. SmartShehar Woman Safety Shield Protection:
Pictures can be taken from this app. As soon as you press the emergency button, the location information with that picture will be passed to the previously selected emergency contacts. If you lost your phone before sending it, don't worry. The app will send all the information automatically in a few seconds. With the 'Walk with Me' feature, pre-determined people will be able to track your movements in real time.
Platform: Android
7. VithU: V Gumrah Initiative:
This can be activated by pressing the phone's power button, so that messages pre-determined to the emergency "I am in danger. I need help. Please follow my location" will keep sending messages every 2 minutes with the updated location.
Platform: Android
8. Suspects Registry - FOR WOMEN:
It also tracks location. On pressing the panic alarm button, the emergency contracts will get information about your location with 1 minute recording. The "Record Any Incident" feature uploads photos to the app's Facebook page.
Platform: Android
9. Pukar-A Personal Safety App:
SMS alerts keep going with GPS location at some time near the pre-determined emergency contacts. During this time, no sound is received from the phone and the brightness of the screen is also low.
Platform: Android
10. Women Safety Help Totem SOS:
In this, modes can be selected according to the threat level. Choose green if you feel safe. When you are unable to decide, choose yellow, this will only pass your GPS location to the pre-decided contacts at some point. The red mode will dial 100 numbers, your location will go to the emergency contacts. Apart from this, the app will take pictures and record audio every 10 seconds.
Platform: Android
11. Raksha - Women Safety Alert:
Without this, just pressing the volume button will go to your location emergency contacts. Where there is no mobile internet, calls will go to 100 numbers and SMS will go.
Platform: Android and iOS
12. iGoSafely - Personal Safety App:
Once activated, it will alert your contacts when the phone is flipped or headphones are removed. Email and text messages will go away with GPS location. Until it is closed, updates will keep going every minute. Each alert message has GPS location, street address (if available) and 30 second audio recording.
Platform: Android
13. Smart24x7-Personal Safety App:
It sends information from emergency alerts to emergency contacts, which also contains audio recordings and photos of that condition. They are also sent to the police. Its call center and user's primary contact movement can be tracked.
Platform: Android, iOS, Windows and Blackberry
14. Women Safety Secured:
This app takes shouting as a danger signal and sends location and text messages to emergency contacts.
Platform: Android
15. Women's Safety App:
This app has a 'shake and alert' feature, which will trigger an alert to emergency contacts when you blow the phone after turning it on. This alert does not automatically go away when the phone is knocked down, so you can also determine the intensity of the blow.