Coursera vs Doist

Coursera and Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Doist (rank #123) holds a meaningful lead over Coursera (rank #726) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 30). 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), Doist is ahead of Coursera. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Doist is clearly ahead of Coursera. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Doist is ahead of Coursera. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Coursera is slightly ahead of Doist. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Doist is ahead of Coursera.

Coursera carries 1,367 GitHub stars across 81 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Doist shows 5,592 stars across 170 public repos, 46 active in the last 90 days and 22 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 4.1x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Coursera is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Doist 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.