1Password vs Excalidraw

1Password (1Password remembers all your passwords for you. It keeps your digital life secure and always available, safe behind the one password that only you know.) and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

1Password (rank #20) holds a modest lead over Excalidraw (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (65 vs 55). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), 1Password is slightly ahead of Excalidraw. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), 1Password is ahead of Excalidraw. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 1Password is ahead of Excalidraw. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 1Password is clearly ahead of Excalidraw. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), 1Password is clearly ahead of Excalidraw.

1Password carries 12,938 GitHub stars across 96 public repos, with 38 repositories active in the last 90 days and 27 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 10.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

1Password is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Excalidraw makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.