Adobe, Inc. vs Proton Mail

Adobe, Inc. (Open source from Adobe) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Adobe, Inc. (rank #47) holds a modest lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (61 vs 41). The gap of 20 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 Proton Mail. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Adobe, Inc. is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is ahead of Adobe, Inc.. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Adobe, Inc. is ahead of Proton Mail.

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. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Adobe, Inc.'s footprint is roughly 3.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Adobe, Inc. is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Proton Mail 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.