Excalidraw vs Google Workspace

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a narrow lead over Google Workspace (rank #165) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 51). The gap of 4 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

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

Excalidraw carries 136,744 GitHub stars across 25 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 215 external contributors on record. Google Workspace shows 48,567 stars across 57 public repos, 18 active in the last 90 days and 37 external contributors.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Google Workspace 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.