Doist vs Remote

Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) and Remote (Remote helps with international payroll, benefits, taxes, stock options, and compliance for businesses big and small!) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Doist (rank #122) holds a narrow lead over Remote (rank #278) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 46). The gap of 8 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Remote shows 811 stars across 51 public repos, 17 active in the last 90 days and 21 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 6.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doist is the stronger read for anyone weighting reach. Remote 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.