Doist vs Sprout Social

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

Doist (rank #122) holds a modest lead over Sprout Social (rank #401) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (54 vs 41). The gap of 13 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 Sprout Social. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Doist is clearly ahead of Sprout Social. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Doist is ahead of Sprout Social. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Sprout Social is slightly ahead of Doist. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Sprout Social 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. Sprout Social shows 313 stars across 68 public repos, 4 active in the last 90 days and 3 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Doist's footprint is roughly 17.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Doist is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Sprout Social 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.