Culture Amp vs Excalidraw

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) 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 Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 31). 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), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Culture Amp is clearly ahead of Excalidraw.

Culture Amp carries 1,202 GitHub stars across 179 public repos, with 17 repositories active in the last 90 days and 18 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 113.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Excalidraw 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.