Doist vs Recurly

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

Doist (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Recurly (rank #317) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 44). The gap of 10 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Recurly shows 1,564 stars across 53 public repos, 26 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 3.6x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doist is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Recurly looks better where momentum 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.