Culture Amp vs Paddle

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

Paddle (rank #372) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (42 vs 31). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Paddle is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Paddle is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Paddle is ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Paddle is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Paddle is slightly 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. Paddle shows 997 stars across 54 public repos, 22 active in the last 90 days and 6 external contributors.

Culture Amp is worth a look for teams already invested in its stack. Paddle 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.