Culture Amp vs Productboard

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Productboard (Make things that matter, together. See also @productboardlabs) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Productboard (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Culture Amp (rank #696) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 31). The gap of 2 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Culture Amp carries 1,202 GitHub stars across 179 public repos, with 15 repositories active in the last 90 days and 16 external contributors on record. Productboard shows 90 stars across 87 public repos, 8 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 13.4x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Productboard looks better where momentum 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.