Adobe, Inc. vs Excalidraw

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) 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.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a narrow lead over Excalidraw (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 55). The gap of 6 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Adobe, Inc. carries 63,154 GitHub stars across 1,108 public repos, with 91 repositories active in the last 90 days and 87 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw looks better where reach 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.