AfterShip vs Excalidraw

AfterShip (We are passionate about making eCommerce better. We are a group of geeks who build great automation tools for retailers and shoppers.) and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over AfterShip (rank #298) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 45). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

AfterShip carries 3,397 GitHub stars across 81 public repos, with 6 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 40.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

AfterShip is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw 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.