Culture Amp vs Expel, Inc.

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Expel, Inc. both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Expel, Inc. (rank #430) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (40 vs 31). The gap of 9 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Expel, Inc. shows 73 stars across 28 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 16.5x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Expel, Inc. 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.