There’s this neat web service called Formspring which lets people ask you questions - and of course allows you to answer them. All you have to do is sign up for an account, or connect using your Facebook profile. In fact, I remember the service being extremely popular amongst my Twitter followers a few months ago. Then I don’t know what happened, but the service slowly disappeared from my radar.
I think that the lack of an official iPhone client surely played its role in making users forget about Formspring, and Spring by Taptivate is here to solve this problem.
Spring is, put simply, the best (and only, I believe) way to access Formspring from your iPhone and iPod Touch. It lets you open your Inbox - that’s where you get the questions - and if you don’t have questions because you don’t have any friends (that’s what Steve would say, oh wait that was about GameCenter) you can hit a button in the top toolbar to generate some cool random ones. I don’t know if Spring enables this or whether it’s a Formspring thing, but it’s cool.
In the tab bar you can also view your answers (because you want to reply, right?), find people using the search bar and open your profile. It’s Formspring, right there on your iPhone.
Available for free in the App Store, Spring is a joy to use and it’s great to look at. If you’re a Formspring user, go get it. Taptivate is also giving away 5 iPhone 4’s to celebrate Spring’s release - don’t miss it.
