Not long ago, the mishap happened with Nirbhaya in India gave rise to a lot of speculations on serious issues pertaining to women safety even at a time when technology has crossed all thresholds and advanced way beyond human mind could have ever imagined before. We live in a time where, on one hand, progressive discussions take place for the betterment of human civilization and, on the other; we fight to keep our women safe and alive. However, the mobile app developers considered it as their responsibility to come up with such unique applications for iOS and Android helping the women section of our society to travel independently across the world.
Both the App stores are lined up with many mobile applications build with this concept and considering the present situation you are likely to get quite a few clones or spam apps lurking to ruin your phone. To ease your task, I have shortlisted 7 such unique apps for iOS and Android that not only cater to women safety but also help users in other ways. Read the list to find out:
- Nirbhaya app- A city-based android app development company, keeping women safety crisis in mind, launched a GPS enabled application named Nirbhaya allows the victim to send a distress message across to a specified contact group in her mobile specifying the exact location of the woman. The contact list can be self- configured incorporating numbers of cops and close relatives.
- GPS Directory- This application, launched on 21st August 2017, by Find Me Solutions LLP, a wing of CMC Group aims at helping women folks in emergency situations such as harassment in public places. GPS enabled application has inbuilt ‘SOS alert’ feature allowing the victim to seek help from pre-selected and nearby logged-in GPS Directory App users, even send SOS message to the inspector of the closest police station, on pressing the SOS button. Also, app users can locate nearest gourmet store, Italian restaurant, non-vegetarian mess, hospital, petrol pump, auto rickshaw stand or even a liquor outlet, getting a benefit of both Justdial and SOS apps.
- Safetipin- This multilingual women safety application have inbuilt features such as GPS tracking, emergency contact numbers, directions to safe locations and more, also feeding safe areas with their safety scores to access at the time of crisis, also helping others.
- VithU- This is a popular GPS enabled women emergency application which is activated as soon as the Power button on the user’s smartphone is pressed twice, sending alert messages comprising of the following text, "I am in danger. I need help. Please follow my location", to the user's emergency contacts every two minutes. Also the link of users' exact location is forwarded to the receiver feeding with updated location details every two minutes.
- Himmat- This unique application for iPhone and Android came up as an effort made by the Delhi Police highly recommended for the women section of the society. All they need is to register on the Delhi Police website to use the service. If an SOS alert is initiated from the application, immediately her location information and audio/video gets directed to the Delhi Police control room, allowing the police to reach the user easily.
- Swipebuster- This is not exactly an application ensuring women safety rather this application goes a long way in helping you to track your partner’s movement and notify as soon as your partner plan on deceiving you. Swipe buster application allows users to search for a particular profile and check on when they last swept across other profiles and was last active online.
- Jinyiwei app- This unique mobile application has been conceptualized on the basis of taxi applications catering to the Chinese users for now. It provides bodyguards usually retired military personnel, across the city in real-time for those who feel unsafe or are particularly concerned transporting valuables.
Wrapping Up
This article briefs you on 7 such unique apps for iOS and Android that can come in handy at the time of emergency faced by the app user whether it is catering to women security issues or ensuring general welfare to the app users. Mobile applications are not all venomous to users’ life. If technology is rightfully molded, they can actually prove highly beneficial to the users. Afterall, technology advancement is done keeping the users’ benefit in mind. But offenders utilize the same medium to instill fear. Technology or mobile phone is not the ultimate villain. It is human mind which is the main instigator working behind silently.
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