Gutsy app lets you anonymously tell your ‘friends’ what you think of them

Want to tell your friends how you really feel about them without identifying yourself or saying it to their face?

Well, A, you’re a terrible friend, and B, you’ll love the new, ironically named app Gutsy. Available for the iPhone, Gutsy is an app that ostensibly lets you develop more open and honest friendships by allowing you and your friends to anonymously answer a series of questions about each other.

Gutsy works by letting you cycle through your available list of friends (it pulls them from your connected Instagram account) and list of up to 100 available questions. Interestingly, your friends don’t even have to be connected to the service for you to answer questions about them. That means you can snipe about anyone, whether they want to hear your advice or not!

Questions range from wonderful queries like “Do you think your friend is bitchy?” to “Do you think your friend is on the right career path?” and “Does your friend exercise enough?”

Keep in mind, your friend will receive these messages, but they’ll never know the answers were from you, or, in some cases, what the heck they’re looking at. At least they’ll know someone thinks they’re bitchy, though!

To be fair to Gutsy, it’s not all bad things. You can also answer questions about whether you think your friend is a good person, if you’ve ever had a crush on them, and if you would sleep with them. Or, you know, you can let them know that you don’t think they’re bitchy, which is always a nice reminder to receive during your work day.

Don’t like the suggested list of replies? Then you can write in your own response. Nothing could go wrong there!

Gutsy is the latest in a growing number of apps meant to let people share their thoughts anonymously, joining the likes of Secret, Whisper, Mood, Viper, Yik Yak, and Gossup. Gutsy is perhapsnotable for letting you direct your anonymous chatter directly at someone—even if they’re not on the app—and not just to the world in general.

The folks at Gutsy developed the app to help improve communication and understanding between friends, and that’s an admirable goal.

Still, and you can call us old-fashioned—anonymously, of course—it seems that if you want to get something across to your friends, you should probably, you know, talk to your friends rather than sending them weird anonymous messages through an app.

And that’s your pop psychology for the day. We’re not being too bitchy, are we?