Appcues vs Culture Amp

Appcues and Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Appcues (rank #257) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (47 vs 31). The gap of 16 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Appcues carries 984 GitHub stars across 122 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Culture Amp shows 1,202 stars across 179 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors.

Appcues is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Culture Amp 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.