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Excalidraw vs Jamf

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

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

Excalidraw (rank #103) holds a modest lead over Jamf (rank #430) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (55 vs 40). 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), Excalidraw is clearly ahead of Jamf. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Excalidraw is ahead of Jamf. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Excalidraw is slightly ahead of Jamf. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Jamf 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. Jamf shows 7,946 stars across 114 public repos, 20 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 17.2x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Excalidraw is the stronger read for anyone weighting code quality. Jamf 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.

Side-by-side metrics

MetricExcalidrawJamf
Ranking
Overall rank#103#430
Pillars
Overall5540
Code5933
Education6868
Community5241
Reach4544
Momentum661
Builder experience00
Signals
Stars136,7447,946
Forks15,9371,547
Public repos25114
Active repos (90d)320
External contributors2155
Avg polish5645
Avg AI-readiness3721

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