Doist vs Gravity Forms

Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Doist (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 32). The gap of 22 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Doist carries 5,576 GitHub stars across 170 public repos, with 45 repositories active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors on record. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 49.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doist is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Gravity Forms makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.