Deezer vs Excalidraw

Deezer and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Deezer (rank #536) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 36). The gap of 19 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Deezer carries 29,854 GitHub stars across 99 public repos, with 5 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 4.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Deezer is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Excalidraw 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.