The 10 best female empowerment apps

In today's world, women increasingly have more opportunities to occupy sectors that have been traditionally occupied by men, as is the case in the technology and applications sectors mobiles.

There are more and more applications created by and for women, which allow you to improve your day-to-day life or denounce unfair behaviors that are far from what we all understand as equality between men and women.

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The 10 most downloaded and valued female empowerment apps

Today we analyze the 10 applications that best represent female empowerment, where you will find from founders of the most innovative applications, to applications designed exclusively for women.

1. Me I

Meyo is a recognized app created by a startup from Barcelona who has developed a tool with which you can control different aspects of your life related to psychological well-being, work, and your health in general, attending to the particular needs of each user in a personalized way thanks to intelligence artificial.

Through gamification in healthy lifestyle habits, Meyo offers an interesting proposal for all those who want to improve their well-being through challenges and challenges that will make us progress continuously, in addition to having a ChatBot with which you can interact to improve your progress.

• You can download Meyo by accessing this page from Google Play.

2. Bumble

Bumble is a dating app created by the well-known Whitney Wholf, which was once the co-founder of the dating app Tinder. However, Bumble has a feminist approach through which it is intended that women have power, thus avoiding uncomfortable situations for women who use this application.

In Bumble you can send photos, but the watermark of the user who sends them appears, of this cyberbullying is drastically reduced, and inappropriate behavior by some mens.

3. An-nisa

An-nisa is an app that offers a safe taxi service that can only be used by women, and aims to ensure that women can get home without any fear or problem, especially when they return from a party or at night.

The app was born in the face of a very complicated situation experienced by many women in Kenya, who have suffered thousands of kidnappings over the last few years. The drivers are other women who volunteer to transport other women and children.

4. Notbuyingit

Notbuyingit is a well-known application whose main objective is to combat sexism in advertising and in the media. Use the movie content, advertisements or programs that appear in the media where sexist attitudes are exposed to give visibility and awareness to society.

Through this app, anyone can give visibility to those sexist ads, with the aim of exposing those brands or people who still act inappropriately.

5. Hollaback

Hollaback is an application that works globally to end street harassment and online all over the world. This app offers an emergency point to which any person who is affected by a situation of harassment can go.

Hollaback is not only intended to protect victims and prosecute bullies, but it also seeks to give visibility to a problem that still exists in developed societies, looking for ways to reduce the situations of harassment.

6. Women on the map

Women on the map is an application created by women between the ages of 13 and 22 that seeks to broaden the recognition of female achievements from the cultural, business, labor and creative point of view.

The operation of this app is very simple, the smartphone vibrates every time a person passes a place where a woman has performed a remarkable fact, from musical shows directed by women, to geological discoveries by experts in the field.

7. Women's word

Word of a woman is another application that aims to give visibility to all those achievements, discoveries and advances that women have made throughout history in areas such as science, technology and economics, among other areas historically led by men.

Currently only 7.5% of historical figures that appear in textbooks are women. The absence of women in books is another example of inequality that has occurred centuries ago, where it was men who had an active and main role in the main sectors of the society.

8. Layar

Layar is an application that was founded in 2009 by a Dutch engineer named Claire Boonstra, which is considered one of the most influential women in the technological field.

She has been one of the pioneers in the development of technology that makes augmented reality possible, using camera triangulation, the GPS and accelerometer to superimpose information layers and create dynamic experiences in museums, restaurants or architectural monuments.

9. Classpass

Classpass is an application to use in gym classes such as spinning, crossfit or yoga, which works through a credit system that women and men can use in centers around the world.

Its founder is a woman Payal Kadakia, who encountered a real problem when conducting ballet classes in New York City. What she did was create a platform, like there is with restaurants, where she can attend certain classes without having to be signed up in the gym.

10. Camera +

Camera + is an application created for iPhone which was created in 2010 by Lisa Bettany, an enterprising and renowned photographer based in Canada. Today it has millions of downloads, being one of the most popular photo editing applications in the iOS environment.

Thanks to this application created by a young and enterprising woman, today there are millions of people who can enjoy an excellent program to edit her photos.