Bitwarden vs Increase

Bitwarden (Open source security solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations.) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Bitwarden and Increase sit at essentially the same overall ecosystem score (60), which is unusual and worth reading through the pillars below.

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

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. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Bitwarden's footprint is roughly 1211.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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