Asana vs Excalidraw

Asana and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Asana (rank #338) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 43). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Asana carries 1,843 GitHub stars across 34 public repos, with 8 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 74.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Asana is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw looks better where community 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.