Comments on: Formspring

By: Michael 'MC' Carter

Michael 'MC' Carter — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:45:31 +0000

FormSpring must have evolved a lot since this article was written back in 2006 (in internet years, that’s 21 years after all … or is that dog years? ). I discovered Wufoo a few months back and have been loving it for Client Feedback Surveys. However, more recently I stumbled across FormSpring (from the geniuses at MailChimp) and the feature set leaves Wufoo in the dust. The conditional logic (branching ability) is reason enough to use FormSoring instead of Wufoo. Add to that its Smart Routing (conditional email notifications to specific email addresses based on answers to particular questions), its Calculating Form Fields and ability to set different permissions for different users (not to mention its iPhone app) and you’ve got a clear winner over Wufoo.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:55:58 +0000

have been using Formspring for 2 years now and it’s a great product/service – they have show continual development and I’d rank them ahead of Wufoo, mainly because Formspring seems to be a bit more data oriented and Wufoo is design oriented — matter of personal choice. It’s looks like the Formspring team is doing that full time now so you can expect great things from them, the pricing is good for what you get and have found my clients using the branching logic more and more as time goes by — or I find a usage for them and it’s always a hit. Trial them all and go with the one that you like best, for me, it’s Formspring – my favorite “Web 2.0″ application.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:53:02 +0000

One thing I noticed when I compared Wufoo and Formspring is that FS has branching logic and Wufoo doesn’t. So if you ask “Are you happy with our service?” and someone chooses “No,” you can set FS to prompt another question, “Would you be willing to discuss your dissatisfaction over the phone?” But users who answer “yes” to the first question would never see that second one. This is a pretty big asset, depending on the kinds of forms you are creating.

By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:54:15 +0000

Maybe it didn’t exist back when AJ wrote the article? It was 2006 after all…

By: Bart

Bart — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:41:51 +0000

Why is Google Spreadsheets with its form builder not mentioned?