Appcues vs Grammarly

Appcues and Grammarly (Millions of users rely on Grammarly's AI-powered products to make their messages, documents, and social media posts clear, mistake-free, and impactful.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Appcues (rank #257) holds a modest lead over Grammarly (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (47 vs 34). 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), Appcues is ahead of Grammarly. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Appcues is ahead of Grammarly. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Appcues is slightly ahead of Grammarly. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Grammarly is ahead of Appcues. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Appcues is slightly ahead of Grammarly.

Appcues carries 984 GitHub stars across 122 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors on record. Grammarly shows 4,355 stars across 23 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Grammarly's footprint is roughly 4.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Appcues is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Grammarly 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.