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Asana vs Proton Mail

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Asana and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Asana (rank #338) holds a narrow lead over Proton Mail (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 41). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Proton Mail shows 16,265 stars across 186 public repos, 19 active in the last 90 days and 20 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Proton Mail's footprint is roughly 8.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Asana is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Proton Mail 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricAsanaProton Mail
Ranking
Overall rank#338#401
Pillars
Overall4341
Code4964
Education7042
Community2946
Reach3844
Momentum1652
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,84316,265
Forks5982,240
Public repos34186
Active repos (90d)819
External contributors220
Avg polish4474
Avg AI-readiness4332

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