Ashby vs Gravity Forms

Ashby and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Ashby (rank #536) holds a narrow lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (36 vs 32). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Ashby carries 1 GitHub stars across 3 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Gravity Forms's footprint is roughly 112.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Ashby is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms 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.