Apollo.io vs Culture Amp

Apollo.io (Apollo's github repo. Be awed) and Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Apollo.io (rank #600) holds a narrow lead over Culture Amp (rank #696) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (34 vs 31). 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), Culture Amp is ahead of Apollo.io. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Apollo.io is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Culture Amp is slightly ahead of Apollo.io. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Apollo.io is ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Culture Amp is ahead of Apollo.io.

Apollo.io carries 73 GitHub stars across 42 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors on record. Culture Amp shows 1,202 stars across 179 public repos, 15 active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 16.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Apollo.io is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Culture Amp looks better where code quality 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.