Best Mobile Apps for Women Safety in India

Recently, India has been witnessing protests across the country against brutal rapes, molestation and mistreatment of women. Despite the protests and measures, crimes are on an alarming rise. It’s tough for today’s women to walk alone in the streets. Hence, it’s high time for them to be cautious and ensure precautionary measures for their safety. The IT industry in the country is doing every bit possible for this by coming up with new innovative apps that offer lot more than just security.

bSafe

bSafe is an amazing safety app that provides timely and precise information during emergencies to the mobile numbers previously chosen by the user. The app is loaded with several helpful features to make you safe. The app is particularly easy to use. To begin the setup, the app would ask you to provide the name and number of the person whom you wish to contact in times of emergency. You can add as many people guardians as you want. The app offers two modes of contact SMS and voice. SMS notification is absolutely free for all guardians, but voice notification is limited to one person only. You can add more people for voice notification with yearly or monthly subscription.

“Hollaback! You have the power to end street harassment”, is the tag line of this particular app. Here the users can take a photo of the harasser and upload it as ‘caught in the act’ and submit their story on ihollaback.org. It signals the perpetrator that his photo is shared on the website as well as warns others from doing this act. The app encourages users to submit stories along with photographs of street harassment at every level from catcalls to strangers groping hands or even individuals exposing themselves in public roads. It is a free version which is available in both iPhone and Android phones. Apart from apps and website, Hollaback is part of an international movement with nearby based Hollaback organizations in major cities and metropolitan areas across 18 countries. It tries to create a crowd- sourced initiative to end street harassment and break the silence to bring notice to the women safety issues.


As the name would suggest, this app allows you to pick six of your closest friends to add to your circle. If you feel unsafe or uncomfortable in any condition then this app would help you to send a pre-programmed SMS alert message along with your exact location to all your friends (included in the circle) with just two taps. This way, you can always stay close to your friends and prevent any violence before it take place. The app is completely simple to use. It has icons that are easy to push. Whenever you find yourself in any bad situation, just push the “ask my circle to” button. Now, three icons will pop up on your device screen. The car icon would send a message to your friends saying “Come and get me. I need help getting home safely.” Plus, using GPS, the app will send your location to all the friends.

Nirbhaya is a Hindi word which means fearless. This application is a tribute to brave Delhi-rape incident girl. Nirbhaya is capable of handling emergency situations and capable of sending notifications to pre-assigned contacts like your name, type of emergency situation along with your physical GPS location over text messages. The notification can be send quickly with a single tap on panic button.  Apart from basic functionalities, it allows you to organise contacts intelligently to tackle different types of emergency situations like Molestation, natural disaster, accident, etc. You can even feed the contacting information about the nearby helping-authorities like Police station, hospital, police supervisor and moreover you can even include or import any contact from your phonebook. Application supports lots of widgets and hotkeys arrangement which enables the victim to send emergency notifications as soon as probable.


You can turn your phone into an extremely useful safety device by simply installing the app called Life 360 Family Locator. This Android application lets you to track the exact location of a person using the latest GPS technology. The app supports a single click panic alarm for emergencies. As soon as you press the panic button, the app would send instant SOS messages via SMS, email, or app notification (if other family member has installed the app in his/her device). Besides its fundamental function of sending messages to previously chosen numbers, the app can be used for many other purposes, such as to receive alerts when any family member reach particular locations, save your most frequently visited places, view sex offenders and recent crimes in close nearness, track the lost or misplaced phones, etc.

Fight back is India’s very first mobile app designed for women’s security. It launched by a non-profit organization called Why Poll back in the year 2011. This safety app allows the users to right away alert friends and family members in case of any emergencies. It is a paid app and it works with all smart phones including Samsung, Nokia, HTC, and Blackberry, as well as java based feature phones. The app, currently available from Nokia Store, uses SMS, GPS, GPRS, location maps, email, even your Face book account to notify your family or friends that you are in an emergency situation. The user can add maximum of five emergency contacts to the list. As soon as you press the Panic Button from the app, the alerts page would get updated with the live alert data also it will display the location of the alert on the Google Map.

SOS Whistle is really one of the best apps available for women’s security. It is quite different from other security applications, as this app does not send an SOS or let your family members or friends know that you are in danger. Instead, as its name would suggest, the app makes a whistling sound. The sound is loud and good enough to let other passersby notice you in case of any threat. The app is very much easy to use. There is no need of a data connection or GPS service to make use of this application. All you have to do is just press the whistle icon to start whistling and then press again the same icon to stop it. Moreover, the app provides a Light function that enables the users to hide the whistle icon, so that you get an icon-less display which when pressed makes the same loud whistle sound. 
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