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Culture Amp vs Zammad

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

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

Zammad (rank #152) holds a meaningful lead over Culture Amp (rank #693) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (52 vs 31). The gap of 21 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Zammad is ahead of Culture Amp. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Zammad is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Zammad is clearly ahead of Culture Amp. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Culture Amp is ahead of Zammad. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Zammad 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. Zammad shows 6,394 stars across 11 public repos, 9 active in the last 90 days and 27 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Zammad's footprint is roughly 5.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Culture Amp is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Zammad 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricCulture AmpZammad
Ranking
Overall rank#693#152
Pillars
Overall3152
Code5363
Education4971
Community2470
Reach200
Momentum3139
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars1,2026,394
Forks1231,687
Public repos17911
Active repos (90d)179
External contributors1827
Avg polish5171
Avg AI-readiness3835

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