37signals vs Doist

37signals (HEY! It's in Basecamp!) and Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

37signals and Doist sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (54), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Doist is slightly ahead of 37signals. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Doist is clearly ahead of 37signals. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), 37signals is ahead of Doist. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), 37signals is ahead of Doist.

37signals carries 113,857 GitHub stars across 236 public repos, with 48 repositories active in the last 90 days and 298 external contributors on record. Doist shows 5,576 stars across 170 public repos, 45 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but 37signals's footprint is roughly 20.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

37signals is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Doist looks better where education 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.