ActiveCampaign vs Heap

ActiveCampaign and Heap (Product Insights) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

ActiveCampaign (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Heap (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 35). The gap of 3 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), ActiveCampaign is ahead of Heap. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Heap is slightly ahead of ActiveCampaign. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), ActiveCampaign is ahead of Heap.

ActiveCampaign carries 6,653 GitHub stars across 88 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Heap shows 215 stars across 65 public repos, 6 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but ActiveCampaign's footprint is roughly 30.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

ActiveCampaign is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Heap looks better where education is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.