Doist vs Semrush

Doist (Empowering people with simple yet powerful tools ✨) and Semrush (We do love open source and have an opportunity to make it better from now.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Doist (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Semrush (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), Doist is ahead of Semrush. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Doist is ahead of Semrush. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Doist is slightly ahead of Semrush. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Doist is ahead of Semrush.

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. Semrush shows 454 stars across 11 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 7 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 12.3x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

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