Excalidraw vs Increase

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

Increase (rank #55) holds a narrow lead over Excalidraw (rank #103) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (60 vs 55). The gap of 5 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Increase. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Excalidraw is ahead of Increase. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Increase is ahead of Excalidraw. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Increase is clearly ahead of Excalidraw. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Increase 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. Increase shows 45 stars across 12 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 5 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Excalidraw's footprint is roughly 3038.8x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Increase 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.