6 Best Women Safety Apps
Download these best Women safety apps for your smartphone and it could help you send emergency SOS SMS alerts, emails, Facebook notifications and even call friends with a single tap of the app should you need help while travelling alone at night, or being confronted with a threatening dangerous situation. [Also remember to grab these self defense keychains]
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OnWatch
OnWatchPositioned as personal safety app for college students, OnWatch allows you to easily alert friends and emergency responders like 911 and campus police when you need to. It also allows you to send time based alerts, for example if you do not reach home safely in an hour. You can easily inform your friends when you are safe with your GPS location. Winner of the U.S. Government’s Apps Against Abuse Challenge. Download for iPhone and Android. Offers free 90 day trial subscription to students with .edu email address, 30 day free trial for others.
CircleOf6
This app lets you add 6 friends who will be informed when you need it. CircleOf6 app when used will send a predecided SMS to your friends with your GPS location and a ‘Come and Get Me’ message. You can also send a call me message, should you need a call back phone call to get out. You can also program it to call select national hotlines or local emergency numbers. This app was also the winner of the White House Apps Against Abuse Technology Challenge. For iPhone and Android. Free to use.
Life360
This is a family locator app which connects all your family members, allowing them to communicate instantly and track GPS location of your family in real time. Of course all family members need to download and install Life360. It allows you to send panic alerts via text, email and phone call if needed urgently. It allows parents to keep track of where their children are right now and will alert them when they return home from school. Its usage can be beyond safety issues and helps to keep your family connected on a daily basis. Winner of the Webby award for Best Use of GPS or Location Technology. Download now for iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Free to use.
bSafe
Simply download the app, and add as many friends as you want to notify in case of emergency or threatening situations. When you press the SOS button, the bSafe app will send a SMS text message to all your bsafe friends and even call a friend to pick you up, while indicating your current map location.  For iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Basic plan is free, though you can upgrade to bSafe premium plan for $1.99/mo ($14.99/yr).
FightBack
This is an India-specific app that requires you to log in via Facebook to download the app. Fightback utilizes your smartphone’s GPRS, SMS, GPS, maps, email and linked Facebook account to send SOS messages when needed. With a single tap, women can send SOS emergency SMS messages and emails to select friends in the list. The app also updates the Facebook status page with emergency messages and current location, to inform their Facebook network (if needed). Available for Android, Blackberry and Nokia smartphones. Free to use.
StreetSafe
This is a more premium-paid service for women desiring extra security. Once you subscribe to StreetSafe for $20/mo ($150/yr) plan, tap the StreetSafe app and their personal safety adviser will provide instant help and can provide ‘Walk with me’ support to help you reach safely, and can notify 911 and the police (with your photos, age, height etc.)  if the situation seems potentially violent or unsafe for you. Available for iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Windows Phone.
Note: We are not affiliated with any of these services. Be sure to check the fine print, pricing and privacy terms before you choose it as your personal safety app. Always remember to test you settings so that they work when you need it.
To be honest, this is the best article I have ever read.It should reach all the girls because of there is no security for girls at all.These apps could be very helpful to the girls.
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Prathap
Great! I didn’t knew that we have these types of apps too. i will highly recommend my female friends to install these apps. Every want must be secure in this world.
Thanks for sharing!
Awesome post. As we all know that womens are not safe at all anywhere even sometimes in her home. So I guess these apps will help them pretty much. I really appreciate this great article.
Thank you 😀
Women safety is very important these days. I hope these apps really help to the women. update if you get any new apps. Thanks.
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Every woman should be aware of, thanks for sharing, even, who also wrote on my blog. Highly recommended for all women.
Great Safety tips for women and girls of the fast era. I think the girls in the hot season will have t do best of the safety among their daily routines. thnks for sharing.
Yes in tech round we need women safety. The best revealed in this post.
Thanks for sharing.
Great informative stuffs for women. I am sure that ever women will like this article completely. I already read most of your article in your website.The contains your helpful thought to protect women. I even recommend every women members in my family to download and install Bsafe.
I have a question in my mind, do any one have to buy to use life 360.
Any way Thank you for sharing this article.
All those apps would be very useful for all women..:)
best apps useful for every women……
FightBack is very usefull for women…Thank you so much. Frankly I had no idea that such kind of applications existed