Doist vs Kajabi

Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) and Kajabi both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Doist (rank #122) holds a meaningful lead over Kajabi (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 ahead of Kajabi. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Doist is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Doist is ahead of Kajabi. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Doist is clearly ahead of Kajabi. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Doist is slightly ahead of Kajabi.

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. Kajabi shows 99 stars across 103 public repos, 8 active in the last 90 days and 11 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 56.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doist is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Kajabi 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.