Culture Amp vs Unsplash

Culture Amp (The employee feedback platform) and Unsplash (Building the internet's open library of freely usable visuals. Join us 👫) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Unsplash (rank #338) holds a modest lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (43 vs 31). The gap of 12 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Unsplash is slightly ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Unsplash is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Unsplash is ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Unsplash is ahead of Culture Amp. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Unsplash 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. Unsplash shows 9,930 stars across 63 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Unsplash's footprint is roughly 8.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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