Affirm vs Gravity Forms

Affirm and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Affirm (rank #485) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (38 vs 32). 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), Affirm is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Gravity Forms is slightly ahead of Affirm. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Affirm is clearly ahead of Gravity Forms. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Affirm is slightly ahead of Gravity Forms. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Gravity Forms is clearly ahead of Affirm.

Affirm carries 207 GitHub stars across 116 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors.

Affirm is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms looks better where momentum 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.