Adobe, Inc. vs Intuit

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Intuit (Powering prosperity around the world.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Intuit (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 48). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Intuit shows 18,182 stars across 150 public repos, 27 active in the last 90 days and 40 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 3.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Intuit 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.