Close vs Gravity Forms

Close (The inside sales CRM of choice for SMBs) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Close (rank #298) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (45 vs 32). The gap of 13 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Close carries 3,871 GitHub stars across 190 public repos, with 25 repositories active in the last 90 days and 10 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 Close's footprint is roughly 34.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Close is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms looks better where reach 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.