Afterpay vs Proton Mail

Afterpay and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a modest lead over Afterpay (rank #728) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 30). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Proton Mail is ahead of Afterpay. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Proton Mail is slightly ahead of Afterpay. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Proton Mail is ahead of Afterpay. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Afterpay is slightly ahead of Proton Mail. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Proton Mail 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. 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 Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 164.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Afterpay is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Proton Mail 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.