Baremetrics vs Excalidraw

Baremetrics (Subscription Analytics & Insights. One click and you get hundreds of valuable metrics & business insights from Stripe, Recurly, Braintree and more!) 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 Baremetrics (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 37). The gap of 18 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Baremetrics carries 908 GitHub stars across 15 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 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 150.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Baremetrics is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. 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.