TightWind is written by Kyle Baxter. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Loren Brichter’s latest project was just announced. It’s called Textie.

It’s dead-simple: it’s an SMS and MMS-replacement application. You can send free text and photo messages to people with the application, or to any phone number, and their response shows up in Textie.

It looks great. It is free with Fusion Ads, and you can turn off ads for $1.99.

I’ve been excited to see this. Can’t wait to use it.

Update: Just played around with it for a little while. It works really, really well. I don’t see why this couldn’t replace the SMS app entirely for me.

Here’s the biggest issue: each time you send a message to a mobile phone number, it comes from a different number. I don’t know how this can be overcome by Textie, but this makes it annoying for anyone who doesn’t have the application to receive text messages from it. At this point, unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t really appear useable for me with my friends who don’t own an iPhone.