Box vs Gravity Forms

Box (Box, Inc.) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Box (rank #93) holds a meaningful lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (56 vs 32). The gap of 24 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Box carries 14,074 GitHub stars across 84 public repos, with 18 repositories active in the last 90 days and 33 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Box's footprint is roughly 125.7x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Box is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms 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.