About this app

Are you afraid of traveling alone? Do you want your family to be stress free when you are away from them? Do you desire rapid police & hospital assistance whenever you need them?

Being aware of present scenario, where crime related to women is increasing day by day, everyone wishes to have a solution to all above questions. And yes we have it now!!

Life would be safer if your cell phone turns into your own protector. Purse is more than a mobile app as it is a perfect blend of many features which are very useful when it comes to safety. You can alert your family, friends via text messages, and social networks posts by sending them your accurate location using GPS. Using speed dial feature, you can call not only your preferred people but also ask for police, hospital, and helpline assistance. There are various unique features such as LED torch, Siren which are useful for children, patients, old people or any person who need a helping hand.

Wait… Purse is not limited for safety purpose only. More features coming soon....

Features:

1) Quick help: Get help within 5 seconds
• Emergency button on home screen to send SOS alert message with GPS location to your preferred contacts. Also same message gets posted on your Facebook wall within 5 seconds.
• Speed dial option to Fire Department, Police, Hospital and 3 preferred contacts.


2) User friendly:
• Custom settings are possible to decide your preferred medium & person of sharing.
• One time Facebook login
• Smooth and easy navigation

3) Unique Features :
• LED Torch
• Siren
• Many more utility features in the pipeline.

4) Click & Share images and share your experience on Facebook
• Capture and share images on Facebook.


User Guide:

First things First:
The first thing to do after installation is to provide access to and your User ID and password to login to Facebook. This will be stored in the app to be used in case of emergencies.
Then go to SKIP TO HOME PAGE- SETTINGS and add at least one contact.

The Emergency Button:
The Green Button means that the app is in Safe Mode. When the emergency button is pressed, it will turn RED (“ALERT” mode) and will send an emergency message to 3 designated emergency contacts alerting them to your emergency along with your GPS coordinates. It will also post a message to your Facebook page. You can set these contacts in the Settings page.

Speed Dial
These buttons let you either just call (Police, Fire, Ambulance) or call AND send a message to the designated contact.

Siren
The Siren - as the name suggests - plays a very loud sound through your phone speakers and this works even when your phone is in the silent mode. The app immediately closes to ensure the siren cannot be turned off accidentally. To turn off the siren, open the app again and press the Siren icon

Utility:
Capture and Share
Take a picture, add text and share it directly on your Facebook wall.

Skip to Home
This takes you to the settings page where you can assign designated contacts to each of the speed dial buttons and also change the police, Fire and Emergency buttons. You can also edit your Facebook settings by going to the "Social Settings" section.

More features coming soon in our next release.

Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/Purseforwomensafety

New features

Version 1.0.3 :
1) Bugs fixed
2) Size reduced
3) Location settings available
4) App can be shut down by back button

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to send SMS messages.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Required to be able to access the camera device.
Allows an application to read from external storage.