Apps to make life easier for women!

Whether it is fitness, advisories, fashion tips, taking care of lists and supplies or enhancing personal security, there is a wealth of apps for women to make their life easier, says Shruti Singh.

Women have to handle several things at the same time and ensure everything runs smoothly. Every time. A number of apps available in various app stores with specific needs of women in mind can be a great advantage. While women have done fine without technology for ages, with apps one can get more organised and anticipate, plan and accomplish goals.

Whether it is health and fitness, advisories, fashion tips, taking care of lists and supplies or enhancing personal security, there is a wealth of apps for women to make their life easier.

These are a few iPhone and Android apps to put those resources at your fingertips quickly.

Save My Soul

This multi-platform mobile app, available free on iOS and Google Play Store, is easy to download and install, and simple to use in times of emergenies. Among its features are a 'help me now' option on the screen which immediately captures the GPS location of the user in trouble, and alerts a list of emergency contacts the user can designate after signing in.

Significantly, in case of data connectivity not being available, the app switches to SMS mode tracking to collect data about your location and sends it to the server of the app through an SMS.

There is also a call back option where a person from the 'Save My Soul' team can call the user in case the system senses that the user is in trouble. The member will then call the user. While the system sends SMSes to friends and emergency contacts, upon no response from them, it will place a call to the police with the last known GPS location of the user.

An absolute must in these troubling times!

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Hammer

Hammer, an online opinion generating platform for women, enables exchange of instant opinions from a global network, is available for Android and iOS. A social and fun app, Hammer assists people in getting and sharing instant opinions, exchanging ideas and news on one common platform, at a moment's notice. One can get instant opinion on your brand new look, clothes, shoes, tattoos, ideas, lip shade, and much more.

Perhaps it feels great to get advice from, and share opinion with, a number of like-minded audience.

Hammer's most exciting features include the wide range of categories to choose from that touch all areas of human existence, the option of choosing the target audience for any post, sharing news and exchanging votes instantly.

The possibility of getting objective, honest and unbiased answers from users around the world has been responsible for making several social network-addicts get hooked on to this platform. The app is sure to take this number of addicts to an even higher scale.

Trendspotters.tv

This app allows informs you about what's trending around you on your Apple devices wherever and whenever you choose.

The iOS app lets you catch up with all the action in the world of fashion, entertainment and lifestyle. This app can definitely make your day easier by helping you decide your look for the day.

Be it the latest shoe trends, hairstyles, apparel trends, accessories, or make-up trends, this app will help you with them all. You can also share interesting news and trends that appeal to you within your network on popular sites like Facebook, Twitter through this app.

Trendspotters.tv creates content by identifying trends across genres like entertainment, fashion and music. These short and snappy stories in the form of videos are then disseminated online through its website as well as YouTube.

The USP of the channel is the fact that the content generated is not available on mainstream media and is therefore unique in nature while being topical. It is meant for viewers who are generally pressed for time and like to catch their daily dose of what's new in the world while on the move.

MyFitnessPal

This is a great app for keeping track of calories. It has a large database of over 20,00,000 foods. One can easily enter food details and it syncs with the web so you can easily check it on your computer.

It also has a 'Diet with your friends' feature in which users can easily track and support each other's progress.

The app also comes with a set of over 350 exercises.

Available on: iOS, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Web

AllRecipes.com Dinner Spinner

With this app, one can search for recipes based on ingredients used or a dish name or by just giving the phone a shake to find a random inspiration.

Using this app you can also share recipes on Facebook, Twitter, or by email.

Available on: iOS, Android, Windows Phone

iPeriod/My Days

There are many apps which allow women to track, in as little or as much detail their period and ovulation cycles. These are just two I recommend.

iPeriod is available for iOS and My Days can be downloaded from Google Play Stores.

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