Cloudbeds vs Excalidraw

Cloudbeds and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a meaningful lead over Cloudbeds (rank #727) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 30). The gap of 25 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Cloudbeds carries 49 GitHub stars across 29 public repos, with 9 repositories active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 137,403 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 209 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 2804.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Cloudbeds is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw 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.