Dropbox vs Grammarly

Dropbox and Grammarly (Millions of users rely on Grammarly's AI-powered products to make their messages, documents, and social media posts clear, mistake-free, and impactful.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Dropbox (rank #257) holds a modest lead over Grammarly (rank #602) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (47 vs 34). 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), Dropbox is slightly ahead of Grammarly. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Grammarly is slightly ahead of Dropbox. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Dropbox is ahead of Grammarly. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Dropbox is clearly ahead of Grammarly.

Dropbox carries 61,045 GitHub stars across 247 public repos, with 29 repositories active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors on record. Grammarly shows 4,355 stars across 23 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Dropbox's footprint is roughly 14.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Dropbox is the stronger read for anyone weighting momentum. Grammarly looks better where education 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.