Culture Amp vs Increase

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Increase (Build your bank) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Increase (rank #55) holds a meaningful lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 31). The gap of 29 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 Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Increase is ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase 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. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Culture Amp's footprint is roughly 26.7x 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. Increase 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.