Culture Amp vs SmartRecruiters

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

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

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. SmartRecruiters shows 119 stars across 25 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 10.1x 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. SmartRecruiters 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.