Developer ecosystem comparison
vs

Dropbox vs Gravity Forms

Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.

Dropbox and Gravity Forms (The most powerful form and workflow solution available for WordPress.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Dropbox (rank #257) holds a modest lead over Gravity Forms (rank #662) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (47 vs 32). The gap of 15 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

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. Gravity Forms shows 112 stars across 8 public repos, 2 active in the last 90 days and 1 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Dropbox's footprint is roughly 545.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Dropbox is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Gravity Forms 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricDropboxGravity Forms
Ranking
Overall rank#257#662
Pillars
Overall4732
Code4821
Education5178
Community4612
Reach3729
Momentum5840
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars61,045112
Forks8,22366
Public repos2478
Active repos (90d)292
External contributors21
Avg polish5224
Avg AI-readiness338

Fork ecosystems

Loading fork ecosystem…
Loading fork ecosystem…
View Dropbox developer profileView Gravity Forms developer profile