Appcues vs Remote

Appcues and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Appcues (rank #257) holds a narrow lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (47 vs 46). The gap of 1 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 Remote. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Remote is ahead of Appcues. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Remote is slightly ahead of Appcues. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Remote is slightly ahead of Appcues. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Remote is 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. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors.

Appcues is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Remote looks better where momentum 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.