10 apps every woman should download

Women safety is a key concern today and various steps have been taken to make India a safer place. To ensure a secure environment for women employees, IT industry body NASSCOM felicitated winners of All India App Fame Contest 2013, which focused on creating solutions for women safety.

l. GoSuraksheit from Hughes Systique India Pvt. Ltd is a security application that enables users to seek help from the contacts they trust the most from almost anywhere.
2. Sentinel, a GPS-based mobile security application from MindHelix Technosol Pvt. Ltd, helps individuals, institutions and governments prevent crime and reach the crime scene before it's too late.
3. Nirbhaya from SmartCloud Infotech Pvt. Ltd is an app that can send SOS/distress messages with location updates to pre-defined SMS contact groups, Facebook walls and secured websites.
4. SafeBridge from Telerik India works without mobile Internet and can be used to inform your friends and family about your travel or any threat since they receive your exact location via SMS.
5. FightBack is a women's safety SOS mobile app developed by CanvasM Technologies Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of Tech Mahindra Ltd.
6. One Touch SOS from Ideophone Technosol Pvt. Ltd detects a user's location, and works even indoors.
7. inE from Rain Concert Technologies Pvt. Ltd connects to resources when activated.
8. iFollow from Aucupa Innovative Solutions automatically dials a voice call to a prime contact configured in the device when in distress.
9. SafeTrac from KritiLabs contains the precise location of the user.
10. PanicGuard from PanicGuard Ltd collects and broadcasts real-time audio-visual information and personal details to your friends and family, and the pomlice response service.