Asana vs Smartsheet

Asana and Smartsheet (Opensource SDKs for the Smartsheet collaborative work management platform) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Asana and Smartsheet sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (43), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Asana is slightly ahead of Smartsheet. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Smartsheet is ahead of Asana. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Smartsheet is ahead of Asana. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Asana is slightly ahead of Smartsheet. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Smartsheet is 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. Smartsheet shows 150 stars across 11 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Asana's footprint is roughly 12.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Asana is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Smartsheet 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.