Evernote vs Excalidraw

Evernote and Excalidraw (Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Evernote (rank #569) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 35). The gap of 20 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Evernote carries 9,832 GitHub stars across 22 public repos, with 1 repositories active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors on record. Excalidraw shows 136,744 stars across 25 public repos, 3 active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 13.9x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Evernote is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Excalidraw looks better where community 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.