Baremetrics vs Proton Mail

Baremetrics (Subscription Analytics & Insights. One click and you get hundreds of valuable metrics & business insights from Stripe, Recurly, Braintree and more!) and Proton Mail both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Proton Mail (rank #401) holds a narrow lead over Baremetrics (rank #510) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (41 vs 37). 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), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of Baremetrics. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Baremetrics is clearly ahead of Proton Mail. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of Baremetrics. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Proton Mail is ahead of Baremetrics. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Proton Mail is clearly ahead of Baremetrics.

Baremetrics carries 908 GitHub stars across 15 public repos, with 0 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 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 17.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Baremetrics 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.