In the wake of the rising level of threat to women safety, businesses and the Government have started making an increased effort to develop technology to improve street safety.
As helping to make the world a safer place is our mission, we have put together a list of 5 of the best apps that have been developed to help women feel safer when out and about.
WalkSafe is the most popular app in the UK, with over 560,000 downloads since its launch in March 2021. WalkSafe’s unique selling point is a map that allows people to plan their safest route home by looking at recent crime data.
Users can notify their friends and family while out and send an automatic notification when they have reached their destination. You can download the app from Apple Store and Google Play.
Shake2Safety has been designed to allow users to notify emergency contacts in case of an emergency via message, location, photo, and audio. The app can also be used without WiFi when the user’s phone is locked or triggered by shaking the phone or clicking the unlock button four times. You can access the app on Google Play.
Rich Larsen, the founder of bSafe app, believes his technology could bring about prosecutions. The app has an exclusive emergency alarm feature that is voice-activated, and it then automatically starts live-streaming video and audio to chosen contacts and records everything that happens. bSafe is available for download on Google Play, and Apple Store.
The Street safe app is an initiative of the Government Home Office, which allows women to anonymously flag up areas where they feel unsafe. Developers of the app say that certain areas can feel unsafe due to environmental issues, like poor lighting, abandoned buildings, vandalism, or behaviours, such as being followed or verbally abused. These factors may enable offenders to either commit or conceal a crime.
When a user marks an area as unsafe, police will then be able to use the logged information to make improvements to unsafe areas, which could include installing CCTV, street lighting or introducing night-time patrol.
With the ease of lockdown restrictions, it is even more important for women to feel safe at any time of the day. Therefore, these tools can perhaps make women and their loved ones feel a little less anxious while they are out alone.
Stay safe everyone x
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