Bitwarden vs Formbricks

Bitwarden (Open source security solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations.) and Formbricks (Open Source Qualtrics Alternative) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Bitwarden (rank #55) holds a modest lead over Formbricks (rank #237) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 48). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Bitwarden carries 54,524 GitHub stars across 68 public repos, with 51 repositories active in the last 90 days and 119 external contributors on record. Formbricks shows 12,675 stars across 18 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Bitwarden's footprint is roughly 4.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Bitwarden is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Formbricks 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.