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Afterpay vs Quo

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Afterpay and Quo (World's best business phone app) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Quo (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Afterpay (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 30). 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), Afterpay is ahead of Quo. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Quo is slightly ahead of Afterpay. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Afterpay is ahead of Quo. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Afterpay is slightly ahead of Quo. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Quo is clearly ahead of Afterpay.

Afterpay carries 99 GitHub stars across 12 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 4 external contributors on record. Quo shows 12 stars across 20 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Afterpay's footprint is roughly 8.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Afterpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Quo 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricAfterpayQuo
Ranking
Overall rank#728#625
Pillars
Overall3033
Code4432
Education3843
Community2611
Reach4744
Momentum1341
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars9912
Forks1351
Public repos1220
Active repos (90d)32
External contributors40
Avg polish4828
Avg AI-readiness3239

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