A Superwoman’s guide to Mobile Apps

Women have come a long way in this world. Women today are independent, powerful, sophisticated, aggressive, outspoken, career-minded, glamorous and self-sufficient. She needs nothing and no one else to get her work done. She is in control of her own life, as well as the circumstances and people around her.

But we all know right what it means to be a 21^st century woman? You have to look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man and work like a boss.

This Women’s Day, we at TheVogueBlog bring you a set of Mobile Apps available on Windows Store that will help you achieve all these and more and be the Superwoman of your dreams!

So presenting a Superwoman’s list of mobile app must haves:

Pocket Yoga

Experts say, Fitness, along with proper nutrition, is important for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. You have heard yoga works, but with truckloads of work where’s the time? Fine fine… you do get some respite once in a while, but you cannot take your yoga instructor everywhere you go…you only wish! Worry not! Your prayers have been answered. Presenting the ‘Pocket Yoga’ app for Windows. Access 27 different sessions of varying difficulty and duration, detailed explanations of the correct posture, alignment and benefits and a pose dictionary.

OneNote

A modern day woman has a lot on her plate and sometimes it does get difficult to remember them all. That’s where OneNote comes into picture. Now you can schedule your tasks easily by noting down all the critical tasks for the day, add pictures if needed and also voice notes for easy reference. And the best part, you can share these notes across devices.

Uber

A must-have app for the woman of today who’s always on her toes. Driving is fun but then with ever-increasing traffic and constantly shrinking city spaces, driving has become more of a hassle. In such cases, one of the prime concerns for woman working round the clock is the availability of cabs on demand. This is where Uber app for Windows steps in. Apart from providing a good cab-on-demand service, it also allows cabs to be tracked real time and offers provision for trip details to be mentioned for each ride to track back the purpose of the cab booked.

Spending Tracker

 

Gone are the days when women were infamous for having no control over their spending. Not anymore…! And definitely not when she has the backing of technology and apps to manage her finances like a pro. The Spending Tracker app on Windows is a user friendly Personal Finance App that allows superwomen to keep a track of the money they spend.

Beauty Tips

They say it’s important to look the part before you be the part. Nothing like it if you could get tips to achieve that. Get self-grooming tips from the comfort of your phone via Beauty Tips app on Windows Store, a specially designed app for women. The application offers tips and suggestions under four broad categories – skin care, beauty mask, hair, and hands.

Now, where’s the need to spend hours waiting in a salon, when you have the power to transform yourself right in your hands.

According to a recent survey by Nielson, Indian women are the most stressed in the world today. And a major contributor to that stress is the lack of safety they feel at all times. Authorities are trying to come up with measures to improve the situation, but a superwoman doesn’t need to wait for anyone’s help when she has her own handy set of safety apps to be in control.

Following are some must have safety apps which can be easily downloaded from the Windows App Store:

Women Safe Circle

Feel safe and stay connected with your near and dear ones with the Women safe circle  app, all at the click of a button. In case of any unforeseen circumstances, the app sends an alert as a SMS or distress text message to a predefined contact group along with the last location of the user tapped via the Global Positioning System (GPS), seeking help.

FightBack

Another app helping women feel safe is Fightback. Often we find observe apps work only on smartphones alienating a wide section of the society who use feature phones. Here’s an app which works even feature phones apart from a large range of other devices. Apart from using GPS, GPRS, SMS, emails and it even uses Facebook to inform one’s friends that they need help. All they have to do is press the ‘Panic’ button, and the app portal will post a status update on the user’s profile along with the individual’s last location on Google Maps. It will also send SOS emergency text messages to the individual’s loved ones.

Safetipin

One of the primary concerns a woman faces when shes one’s travelling to a new or an unknown locality is what if I land up in a place which is not safe. Relax. Safetipin is an app which allows the user to know the safety levels of a place before visiting. Each place is given a safety score and you can also refer to comments as well as pictures of that place and thus helps in taking precautonary measures before visiting.

Eyewatch Police

An excellent app which helps citizens seek help in their times of distress and that too in real time is Eyewatch police. This app uses a smartphone based surveillance to reach out to people in trouble. This is especially beneficial for women. Once the app is downloaded and installed, the user can can send an SOS directly to the Police control room with a simple touch of a button. Theres more. The police can also access the video of the user’s location using his/her phone camera.

Guardian

Here’s an app which helps you be your own guardian by helping you to track your own devices remotely. Confused? Suppose you are lost somewhere and security groups are searching for you. Guardian combines tracking by both the parties and provides directions on your phone to local agencies such as police, hospitals and more.

This is a made-for-India app which is a highly advanced security app that ensures security for Women and security groups simultaneously and results in faster action. And that’s not all! Apart from this, Guardian sends out regular SMS alerts ensuring maximum help in case of any unforeseen circumstances and acting as a Guardian for Women