AfterShip vs Gravity Forms

AfterShip (We are passionate about making eCommerce better. We are a group of geeks who build great automation tools for retailers and shoppers.) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

AfterShip (rank #298) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (45 vs 32). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but AfterShip's footprint is roughly 30.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

AfterShip is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Gravity Forms looks better where education 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.