Peace of Mind: Text away your worries

You’ve just got yourself a shiny new Android phone. After you’ve clicked like a million photos and tried out various apps, you can safely say the phone is your lifeline.

But bad things do happen and, say, you leave the phone behind on the Metro, or worse, someone steals it. Besides losing your favourite phone, you also make yourself vulnerable to a whole lot of other problems. For starters, your personal photos, information and credit card details are saved on the phone. So, if a wrong person gets his hands on them, he/she can turn your life upside down.

Enter privacy tools and encryption apps. While there are many available on the Google Play Store, Peace of Mind, the application we reviewed, stands out for its simplicity.

To use the app, one needs to download it after paying Rs 99. During installation, the app asks for a password. And you’re good to go.

Now, if you do lose your phone, all you need to do is to send a text message to the device containing the password you had entered during installation. And all your saved data gets deleted. If someone changes the SIM of the device, one needs to enter the password again. And three wrong attempts leads to the data on the phone being deleted.

Yes, it’s really that simple and it worked the number of times we tried. The app works on any phone/phablet which runs Android. But we wish the app also had a way to back up the data remotely and worked on tablets. But if you just want to be sure your data doesn’t wall into wrong hands, you won’t find a simpler app.